There are two situations when you don't graduate from college. One is that all courses have been completed, but all the professional exams failed and the make-up exams failed. This situation is called graduation. The other is that you didn't complete all the courses and your studies were interrupted. This situation is called "dropping out of school". Both college graduates and college dropouts belong to college degrees in the classification of academic qualifications.
However, due to the unsatisfactory academic completion of graduates and dropouts, they are generally not treated as equivalent academic qualifications. Graduates are treated as the next level, and dropping out of school is treated as the upper level education. For example, college graduation is regarded as high school education, undergraduate graduation as college education, and college graduation and undergraduate graduation as high school education.