As final exams loom around the corner, it is nice to remember why we started our collegiate journey and who it could help us become. Here are a few celebrities who stuck it out and earned their degrees!

1. Tyler Oakley

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Tyler Oakley graduated from Michigan State University's College of Communication Arts and Sciences with a degree in Communications in 2011. While at MSU he created a successful career as YouTube personality garnering over 8 million subscribers. Since then he has become a published author (Binge is amazing; I recommend reading it), the host of his own talk show "The Tyler Oakley Show," as well as an acclaimed activist and humorist.

2. Emma Watson

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Watson graduated from Brown University in 2014 with a degree in English Literature. With a successful career as an actress and feminist icon, I look forward to seeing this educated lady next year in Disney's live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.

3. Kourtney Kardashian

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The eldest Kardashian sister graduated from Arizona State University in 2002 from the University of Arizona with a degree in Theatre Arts and a minor in Spanish. She is definitely making use of her theatre degree!

4. Troian Bellasario

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The Pretty Little Liars actress graduated from the University of Southern California in 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She is currently planning a wedding with her fiance, Patrick J. Adams, after two years of engagement.

6. Dylan and Cole Sprouse

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Dylan and Cole Sprouse are living the suite life after graduating from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2015. The twins are pursuing video game design and archeology, respectively.

7. Elizabeth Olsen

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Everyone's new favorite superheroine graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2013 after six years of studying! Her hard work has certainly paid off.

8. Natalie Portman

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Natalie Portman is both beautiful and brilliant. She has graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology in 2003. Portman was also a co-author on two published research papers. #Goals.

9. Tina Fey

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The "Saturday Night Live" comedienne graduated from the University of Virginia in 1992 with a degree in Drama. She is now a successful actress, author, and producer.

10. John Legend

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John Legend may have a song called "Ordinary People," but he certainly isn't one! Despite being accepted and offered scholarships to both Georgetown University and Morehouse College, as well as admission to Harvard University, but Legend choose the University of Pennsylvania as his alma mater. It was there that he met Lauryn Hill and started his music career. He graduated magna cum laude from UPenn with a degree in English and a focus on African-American Literature in 1999. He went on to receive an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Howard University in 2012.

11. Mindy Kaling

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This lovely actress graduated from Dartmouth College in 2001 with a degree in Playwriting! In her college days, Kaling participated in an improv troupe "The Dog Day Players" and an a capella group "The Rockapellas," she made a comic strip of The Dartmouth Newspaper, wrote for the school's humor magazine The Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, AND worked as an intern on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

12. Amy Poehler

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Another funny lady and "Saturday Night Live" star on this list, Amy Poehler, graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in media and communications. While attending she was a part of a comedy improv troupe called "My Mother's Fleabag."

13. Ludacris

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The Grammy Award winning rapper graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor's degree in Music Management in 1999. He also interned at Atlanta-based radio station Hot 107.9, before becoming a radio host on the station known as Chris Lova Lova. He went on to start his own recording label 'Disturbing Tha Peace' in 2000.