In my opinion multiple discovery fits the bill perfectly.

Another term that is often used are simultaneous invention or independent invention. Frequency of occurrence in Google Search are:

  Multiple discovery: 26,600 Simultaneous invention: 12,100 Independent invention: 69,900  

In Google books:

  Multiple discovery: 4,760 Simultaneous invention: 4,460 Independent invention: 33,500  

See this Ngram. The figures for independent invention are possibly skewed because this term is used in patent law.

If you’re looking for a better, more cool name, synchronicity might work:

the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality —used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung

For added coolness (depending on your age :-)) it’s also the title of a 1983 album by The Police.

What can we offer a student for his or her college degree?

In my opinion multiple discovery fits the bill perfectly.

Another term that is often used are simultaneous invention or independent invention. Frequency of occurrence in Google Search are:

  Multiple discovery: 26,600 Simultaneous invention: 12,100 Independent invention: 69,900  

In Google books:

  Multiple discovery: 4,760 Simultaneous invention: 4,460 Independent invention: 33,500  

See this Ngram. The figures for independent invention are possibly skewed because this term is used in patent law.

If you’re looking for a better, more cool name, synchronicity might work:

the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality —used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung

For added coolness (depending on your age :-)) it’s also the title of a 1983 album by The Police.

What can we offer a student for his or her college degree?

In my opinion multiple discovery fits the bill perfectly.

Another term that is often used are simultaneous invention or independent invention. Frequency of occurrence in Google Search are:

  Multiple discovery: 26,600 Simultaneous invention: 12,100 Independent invention: 69,900  

In Google books:

  Multiple discovery: 4,760 Simultaneous invention: 4,460 Independent invention: 33,500  

See this Ngram. The figures for independent invention are possibly skewed because this term is used in patent law.

If you’re looking for a better, more cool name, synchronicity might work:

the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality —used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung

For added coolness (depending on your age :-)) it’s also the title of a 1983 album by The Police.

What can we offer a student for his or her college degree?