When you graduate from college, you must pass the graduation examination and thesis defense to obtain a college diploma and a bachelor's degree certificate. The former means that you have completed four years of study, and the latter means that you have reached the level required by the subject, that is, the graduation certificate with credit hours, so every graduate can get a diploma when he graduates, but not everyone can get a degree certificate.

A degree is an academic title that marks that the educational level and academic level of the grantee have reached the prescribed standards. China's degree is divided into bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctor's degree. A "postdoctoral" is not a degree, but a doctoral degree winner who is allowed to enter Post-Doctoral Research Center for scientific research.

The bachelor's degree is awarded by institutions of higher learning authorized by the State Council, and the master's degree and doctor's degree are awarded by institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions authorized by the State Council. Undergraduate graduates of institutions of higher learning who have achieved excellent results and reached the prescribed academic level are awarded bachelor's degrees; Postgraduates in institutions of higher learning and scientific research, or persons with the same academic ability as postgraduates, pass the course examination and thesis defense for master's (doctoral) degree and reach the required academic level, and are awarded master's (doctoral) degrees. Institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions that confer academic degrees shall, after academic degree evaluation committee has made a resolution on conferring academic degrees, issue corresponding degree certificates to degree winners.