Certificate of completion refers to that students fail in school, fail to reach graduation qualification, or their learning institutions cannot issue certificates recognized by national or regional educational institutions, or they should not or cannot issue graduation certificates according to national regulations.

Graduation certificate refers to a student who has a formal student status, has completed all the courses specified in the teaching plan, passed the examination or completed all the credits, and is allowed to graduate. Graduates are issued a "Graduation Certificate" uniformly printed by the Ministry of Education.

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When applying for professional and technical qualifications, full-time undergraduate and junior college graduates in ordinary colleges and universities can be treated as graduates who lower the level of a country's education sequence, that is, undergraduate graduates are treated as junior college graduates and junior college graduates as secondary school graduates. Graduates who have received postgraduate education but have not obtained academic qualifications and master's or doctor's degrees are treated according to the highest national education qualifications obtained before.

Undergraduate graduates have the qualification to apply for graduate students, and they can also apply for the second undergraduate degree at the starting point of junior college (the starting point of junior college is open to question, and many enrollment schools have said that "the diploma shall prevail", and they can apply for the "junior college" undergraduate degree regardless of whether they have a diploma or not.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Certificate of Completion