In 2018, 132 graduate students at Shenzhen University dropped out of their degree programs as the school tightened its graduation requirements, the university announced Monday.

The university’s announcement is in line with a March notice by the Ministry of Education urging schools to “strictly tighten” degree requirements for postgraduate programs, which itself came on the heels of actor Zhai Tianlin’s viral academic dishonesty scandal.

Previously, it was rare for schools to demand that students halt their degrees, and in many Chinese universities, students can be awarded diplomas even if they fail key tests.

The students affected at Shenzhen University were mainly in popular programs, such as business management and software engineering, Caixin has learned. The school has roughly 8,400 masters and doctoral students in total.

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