Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hancock, Herbie | Doctor of Music | 2020 | |
| Simon, Paul F. | Doctor of Music | 1996 | |
| Ax, Emanuel | Doctor of Music | 2007 | |
| Fleming, Renée | Doctor of Music | 2020 | |
| Perlman, Itzhak | Doctor of Music | 1981 | |
| King, Riley B.B. | Doctor of Music | 1977 | |
| Carter, Jr., Elliott Cook | Doctor of Music | 1970 | |
| McDonald, Audra | Doctor of Music | 2016 | |
| Fitzgerald, Ella | Doctor of Music | 1986 | |
| Moore, Douglas S. | Doctor of Music | 1955 | |
| Marsalis, Wynton | Doctor of Music | 1995 | |
| Penderecki, Krzysztof | Doctor of Music | 2003 | |
| Solti,Georg, K.B.E., Sir | Doctor of Music | 1974 | |
| Franklin, Aretha | Doctor of Music | 2010 | |
| Mason, William | Doctor of Music | 1872 | |
| Watts, Andre | Doctor of Music | 1973 | |
| Adams, John | Doctor of Music | 2013 | |
| Paderewski, Ignace Jan | Doctor of Music | 1917 | |
| Koussevitzky, Serge | Doctor of Music | 1938 | |
| Ellington, Duke | Doctor of Music | 1967 | |
| Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich | Doctor of Music | 1980 | |
| Alsop, Marin | Doctor of Music | 2017 | |
| Thomas, Theodore | Doctor of Music | 1880 | |
| Price, Leontyne | Doctor of Music | 1979 | |
| Masur, Kurt | Doctor of Music | 1994 | |
| Ronald L. Carter | Doctor of Music | 2025 | |
| Paine, John Knowles | Doctor of Music | 1890 | |
| Kneisel, Franz | Doctor of Music | 1911 | |
| Watson, James Craig | Doctor of Philosophy | 1871 | |
| Safford, James Merrill | Doctor of Philosophy | 1866 | |
| Northrop, John Howard | Doctor of Science | 1937 | |
| Bowen, Norman Levi | Doctor of Science | 1951 | |
| Lorenz, Konrad | Doctor of Science | 1967 | |
| Opie, Eugene Lindsay | Doctor of Science | 1931 | |
| Sherlock, Dame Shella | Doctor of Science | 1983 | |
| Gell-Mann, Murray | Doctor of Science | 1959 | |
| Berg, Paul | Doctor of Science | 1978 | |
| Stratton, Samuel Wesley | Doctor of Science | 1919 | |
| Stakman, Elvin Charles | Doctor of Science | 1950 | |
| Meyerowitz, Elliot M. | Doctor of Science | 2014 | |
| Kao, Charles Kuen | Doctor of Science | 1999 | |
| Bridgman, Percy Williams | Doctor of Science | 1951 | |
| Raven, Peter | Doctor of Science | 2006 | |
| Seldin, Donald W. | Doctor of Science | 1988 | |
| Dantzig, George B. | Doctor of Science | 1978 | |
| Deforest, Lee | Doctor of Science | 1926 | |
| Buck, Sir Peter Henry | Doctor of Science | 1951 | |
| Palade, George E. | Doctor of Science | 1967 | |
| Richards, Dickinson W. | Doctor of Science | 1957 | |
| Greenewalt, Crawford H. | Doctor of Science | 1969 |