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diploma mill
(redirected from Degree mills)

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diploma mill
n. Informal
An unaccredited institution of higher education that grants degrees without ensuring that students are properly qualified.
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The Ministry of Higher Education expresses its worries regarding the increasing number of agencies that lure students into nonexisting universities and obtaining unaccredited certificates," said Al-Qahtani, referring to the issue of local unaccredited institutions and degree mills.
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It is man's desire to go the easy way, that is prompting many degree mills to operate lucratively around the world.
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That initiative led to the closing of some 40 phony degree mills and more than 20 convictions.
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