Definition of diploma mill
: a usually unregulated institution of higher education granting degrees with few or no academic requirements
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In the last decade much has been written about diploma mills: schools that teach nothing, yet graduate their students, many of whom just happen to be elite athletes.
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First Known Use of diploma mill
1914
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