Diploma workshops, also known as "fake universities" or "learning shops", run schools for profit. It usually uses a name that is easily confused with well-known universities, enrolls students in a confusing way, and exploits the loopholes of relevant national laws by various means to issue diplomas indiscriminately. The deception of diploma mill involves both fake schools and fake academic qualifications.

The following is a list of 392 diploma workshops published by People's Daily.

There is only one way to avoid the diploma mill, that is, volunteering in the official college entrance examination volunteer system in various regions. All schools that can appear in the official voluntary system are not diploma workshops.

Every year, fake schools emerge one after another, which cannot be covered by a single list. Therefore, as long as we don't bypass the official education examination institute, there will be no possibility of being cheated by diploma workshops.