Possible Clues:

• Cap-and-gown wearer
• Mark regularly argued, snarling about heartless agent
• Successfully complete a course in higher education
• Label that housed UB 40 s early hits
• To a degree the guard swallowed this
• Holder of university degree
• Master, e.g.
• Gain degree
• Bachelor has to proceed by degrees
• Mark with degrees -- e.g. BA