Fake academic qualifications themselves will not constitute a crime, but the process of making fake academic qualifications and engraving official seals may constitute a crime.

The criminal law stipulates:

Whoever forges, alters or buys or sells official documents, certificates and seals of state organs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.

Whoever forges the seal of a company, enterprise, institution or people's organization shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights. The school should be regarded as a public institution, and forging the seal of the school is also suspected of committing a crime, which may be less than 3 years.