diploma mill

基本解释

Neither did Tang’s purported PhD from the California Institute of Technology. His degree was from an unaccredited “diploma mill” called Pacific Western University.
不久，人们甚至发现他自称获得加州理工学院的博士学位也是捏造的，而真实学位却由一所未经授权的“文凭工厂”西太平洋大学所颁发。
A lot of people are still ignorant of the advances online education has made in recent years and fail to recognize the difference between legitimate degrees and “diploma mill” certificates.
很多人还是忽视这几年网上教学取得的进步，并且对正规的学位和“文凭制造厂”的证书无法区分。
“Diploma mill” schools charge unsuspecting students thousands of dollars for worthless degrees, whereas credentialed, trustworthy schools are able to give their students diplomas to be proud of.
不入流的学校榨取了那些不知情的学生几千美元的学费，给出的却是豪不值钱的学位，而那些可靠的，值得信赖的学校却可以给学生提供值得他们骄傲的证书。

However, you do need to be careful that the school you choose is not just a diploma mill.
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These jokes will learn, grow, proliferate, shed their diploma-mill status and become real.
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an organization that gives educational qualifications to people in exchange for money, without them having to do any or much studying