You May Now Address Ed Sheeran As DOCTOR Sheeran 

\'I am now officially Dr. Sheeran,\' Ed said. But, like, what?

Ed Sheeran’s worn a lot of interesting clothes throughout the years. He’s got his penchant for flannel, his penchant for chest tattoos, his beloved nerd-clown Halloween costume… The list goes on and on.

But Ed’s most recent outfit was decidedly more scholarly.

“I graduated today, I am now officially Dr. Sheeran,” the “Thinking Out Loud” singer wrote in the caption. So, like, what’s going on here?

As it turns out, the 24-year-old Ed — whose concert film, “Jumpers For Goalposts” hits select theaters Oct. 23 — received an honorary doctorate degree from University Campus Suffolk in the UK for his “outstanding contribution to music,” Yahoo reports.

I wasn't joking, I am actually a doctor now, that's how mad this world is

The 2015 MTV EMA host, who grew up in Suffolk, left school at age 16 to pursue a career in music full time, eventually adding a Guinness World Record to his accomplishments. Part of the success, Ed said, was due to going out and seeing more of “life university.”

“For a musician you need more life university, rather than studying anything,” Ed said to the Press Association.

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He also talked about the crippling debt that some students can end up with after school.

“I don’t necessarily think university is what you have to do to get a job,” Ed said. “I know that’s a weird thing to say coming to receive a doctorate, but I think there’s a lot of pressure on kids to go to university, then a lot of them end up in debt with a degree they didn’t really need to get the job they want.

album came out in June 2014, has plans to take some time off come January after a gargantuan world tour he’s documented extensively on Instagram.

“I think we should encourage kids to chill a bit more. You don’t have to go to university at 18,” he said. “You can go off and travel for a year.”

Or, you know, write a song that gets nominated for Song of the Year at the Grammys. Here’s to Dr. Ed!

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