MBA students are the 'biggest graduate cheats'

[Honeykiss1974]

September 21, 2006 12:43 AM ET

MBA students are the biggest cheats of all graduate students, with 56 per cent admitting to misdemeanours such as using crib notes in exams, plagiarism and downloading essays from the web.

The statistic comes from a survey of graduate students to be published in the Academy of Management Learning and Education journal. The report is based on data from about 5,300 survey respondents at 54 colleges and universities in the US and Canada, including 623 students in 32 graduate business programmes.
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I don't recall cheating being a big issue in grad school....now undergrad was a different story

[Dionysus]

"Academic dishonesty" can be a HUGE issue in grad school, and they are really starting to crack down on it. Last semester, one professor dedicated the first week of classes to this subject. I found out more about plagiarism and AD that I ever wanted to. I take twice as slower to complete my assignments now, because I'm scared that I will unintentionally plagiarize another author.

[alum]

I am an academic advisor for graduate students at a university's B School. Plagiarism is prevalent and we do expel students if caught. One thing your school may have is an account with turnitin.com. If so, students can submit their own papers to this service to ensure there is no "inadvertent" copying before handing the assignment to the P.

[Munchkin03]

The boy is in B-school, and a top 20 at that. He's Canadian, so I doubt he's part of the cheating. I'll ask, though.

There was more cheating in HS than in college and grad school combined. My classmates took themselves so freaking seriously at stupid Columbia that they thought they were the smartest in the class--hence, no need for cheating. My college was way too cool for that.

[Wolfman]

I was a student and then a teaching fellow/adjubnt at an evangelical theological seminary where I ran into this prblem too. It was very competitive and students would hide reference books from each other when the time came for papers to be written, cut chapters out of reference books and cheat and plagiarize (some of this chalked up to foreign students and differing cultural standards).

[GeekyPenguin]

Well, it's hard to get face time and do original work. :P