Check whether the school is on the China Scholarship Council’s list of accredited institutions before paying tuition
If you need this diploma back in China for further study, a job, or an exam, you can apply to the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange for certification. It publishes a list of schools that passed certification in the past 5 years. Being on the list does not guarantee you will pass. Being off the list does not mean they will refuse to take the application. Check once before you pay tuition. If the school is not on the list, ask a further question.
No cost at all. Simply enter the school’s name into the “A…
Article 1 of the Measures for Certifying Academic Degrees and Diplomas from Outside China, issued by the Chine…
No cost at all. Simply enter the school’s name into the “Accredited Institution Search” tool on the China Scholarship Council website; the check takes just a few minutes.
Article 1 of the Measures for Certifying Academic Degrees and Diplomas from Outside China, issued by the Chinese (Ministry of Education) Service Center for Scholarly Exchange, states that certification is to "meet the applicant's needs for further study, employment, exams, and similar purposes." Article 2 states that certification is done "on the applicant's own application." The center has a certified-institution lookup. You search by school name. Its instructions say the list is the foreign awarding institutions that appeared in applications certified in the past 5 years, and that it is "for the reference of people who studied abroad only, and is not a guarantee or basis for any successful certification." The instructions also say the scope of applications they will accept "is not limited to the institutions this lookup shows," that each application is assessed on its own, and that whether the school is lawful and qualified to issue the credential is only part of the assessment. The list is updated once a year. The 2025 update removed 270 schools that had not had a certificate issued in the past 5 years. Separately, the Ministry of Education information site on supervision of cross-border education (教育涉外监管信息网) also publishes supervision information on Chinese-foreign cooperative programs and on schools run overseas.
中国（教育部）留学服务中心. 认证院校查询（含使用须知）. http://yxcx.cscse.edu.cn/；中国（教育部）留学服务中心 (2023). 国（境）外学历学位认证办法（第一、二条）. http://zwfw.cscse.edu.cn/zwfw/lxfwzxwsfwdt2020/xlxwrz32/409891/rzbf/2026042823373762003/index.html；教育部教育涉外监管信息网. https://jsj.moe.gov.cn/
Open source linkAlways rely on your own online verification; third-party agents claiming “Ministry of Education approval” lack legal weight. The accredited list is subject to periodic updates; inclusion at the time of enrollment does not guarantee continued eligibility at graduation. It is advisable to recheck annually. Sino-foreign cooperative programs follow separate accreditation procedures. Individuals who enrolled after 2008 may retrieve their registration numbers via the Overseas Education Supervision Information Network using their full name and ID number.