The world’s most famous "college dropout" has finally received his degree. On Tuesday afternoon, Kanye West was given an honorary doctoral degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yeezy went to the ceremony alone as his wife, Kim K and their daughter were in Brazil for the launch of her new clothing collection, but she took to Instagram to congratulate him as well.
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The Chicago native attended both the American Academy of Art and Chicago State University for brief periods, but left at 20 years old to pursue music. Some four years later, of course, he’d release The College Dropout album.
Lisa Wainwright, dean of faculty and vice president of academic administration at SAIC, said the university was compelled to give Kanye an honorary degree after he mentioned a desire to have attended.
“I read it and thought, ‘Wow, this is a fantastic moment,’ Wainwright told the Chicago Tribune. “Here is this major figure in the cultural landscape promoting art school, this guy from Chicago saying art school is cool. So we thought, ‘This man deserves an honorary doctorate from us!’ He should have gone here.”
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