Don't know exactly. Sometime after Project Phoenix (probably at least a year after, assuming they aren't stretching the point a bit by mentioning Kitty's doctorate).

--G.
Some places in real life are actually giving out postnominal letters for being doctoral candidates now. That has kind of an "everybody gets prizes" flavor to it.
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