content: Lol... Look uo Terrance Howard 's Academic background.  Though he did not complete his engineering degree, Howard thinks of himself as an engineer and intends to return one day to complete the "three credits"[25] of which he is currently short.[11][26][27][28] Howard's account of his educational history has not been confirmed; Pratt Institute, which he says he attended, closed its engineering degree program in 1993.[29] On February 26, 2013, Howard said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he had earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from South Carolina State University that year. He was awarded an honorary "Doctorate of Humane Letters" from SCSU after speaking at its commencement ceremony in 2012. However, he never attended the university[27] and in fact the university is not empowered to confer doctorates in chemical engineering.[30] In 2010, Howard was inducted as an honorary member into Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.[31]