In this paper, we give a sufficient condition for a graph to have a degree bounded spanning tree. Let n ≥ 1, k ≥ 3, c ≥ 0 and G be an n-connected graph. Suppose that for every independent set S ⊆ V(G) of cardinality n(k − 1) + c + 2, there exists a vertex set X ⊆ S of cardinality k such that the degree sum of vertices