diff --git a/src/lib/heuristics/extract/education.test.ts b/src/lib/heuristics/extract/education.test.ts
index e437234b..751cb3e0 100644
--- a/src/lib/heuristics/extract/education.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/heuristics/extract/education.test.ts
@@ -947,3 +947,59 @@ describe("extractEducation — cleanField strips leftover edge middot and bullet
     expect(value[0].field).toBeUndefined();
   });
 });
+
+describe("extractEducation — parseDegreeAndField strips middot/bullet before in/of connective (#839)", () => {
+  it("strips middot then in connective from degree field", () => {
+    const { value } = extractEducation(
+      mkEduSection([
+        "Springfield State University",
+        "B.S. · in Computer Science",
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(value).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(value[0].degree).toBe("B.S.");
+    expect(value[0].field).toBe("Computer Science");
+  });
+
+  it("strips bullet then of connective from degree field", () => {
+    const { value } = extractEducation(
+      mkEduSection([
+        "Springfield State University",
+        "B.S. • of Computer Science",
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(value).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(value[0].degree).toBe("B.S.");
+    expect(value[0].field).toBe("Computer Science");
+  });
+
+  it("still strips hyphen and em dash before in connective", () => {
+    const { value: hyphen } = extractEducation(
+      mkEduSection([
+        "Springfield State University",
+        "B.S. - in Computer Science",
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(hyphen[0].field).toBe("Computer Science");
+
+    const { value: emDash } = extractEducation(
+      mkEduSection([
+        "Springfield State University",
+        "B.S. — in Computer Science",
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(emDash[0].field).toBe("Computer Science");
+  });
+
+  it("preserves interior middot in a two-part field name", () => {
+    const { value } = extractEducation(
+      mkEduSection([
+        "Springfield State University",
+        "B.S. Mathematics · Statistics",
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(value).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(value[0].degree).toBe("B.S.");
+    expect(value[0].field).toBe("Mathematics · Statistics");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/heuristics/extract/education.ts b/src/lib/heuristics/extract/education.ts
index 7ce31b79..035d7ea9 100644
--- a/src/lib/heuristics/extract/education.ts
+++ b/src/lib/heuristics/extract/education.ts
@@ -533,9 +533,14 @@ function parseDegreeAndField(line: string): {
   }
   const fieldRaw = line
     .slice(fieldStart)
-    // Drop a leading "in "/"of " connective or a "-"/"—"/":"/"," separator.
+    // Drop a leading "in "/"of " connective or a "-"/"–"/"—"/","/":"/"·"/"•"
+    // separator. The middot/bullet live here, not only in `cleanField`, because
+    // this strip runs FIRST — `cleanField`'s edge strip accepted them already but
+    // runs after the connective strips, too late to rescue a "· in <field>"
+    // header (#839). The two classes still differ (`cleanField` also takes ";");
+    // unifying the separator vocabulary repo-wide is #653.
     .replace(/^\s*(?:in|of)\s+/i, "")
-    .replace(/^\s*[-–—,:]\s*/, "")
+    .replace(/^\s*[-–—,:·•]\s*/, "")
     .replace(/^\s*(?:in|of)\s+/i, "");
   return { degree, field: cleanField(fieldRaw) };
 }