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Donald McCabe says he has the research to prove it: Business students probably cheat the most. "Students
in business already have a bottom-line mentality," said McCabe, founder
of the Center for Academy Integrity and a professor at Rutgers
University in New Jersey. " 'I have to get the job done, and how I get
it done is less important.' That kind of thinking." In a survey of 32 schools, 74 percent of business undergraduates
admitted to having engaged in one or more of 13 behaviors listed in a
cheating index, compared with a mean of 68 percent from all other
students, he said. Business students also topped the list in graduate
school, he said. Second on the list of cheaters, he said, are engineering students. Both business and engineering are problem-based.
Actually, it's not really the majors themselves, I think; it's the brand of student that is simply ranging from apathetic to bitterly cynical about their education. That's the student who really doesn't care about learning (and honestly, many of those students already know the material in the course like the back of their hand); they want the piece of paper that certifies that they have learned, so they can get the paycheck that comes with it.
For some reason, though, business and engineering attract this breed of student more than any other major.
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