Business students are the easiest to cheat

Graduate students studying business in the US and Canada are more likely to cheat on exams, compared to students in other disciplines.

The study of 5,300 graduate students in the US and Canada found that 56% of business students admitted to being dishonest in the past year, many of them claiming to be an acceptable activity in business.

Following business students, 54% of engineering students admitted to cheating, followed by 50% of natural science students, 49% of medical students, 45% of law students, 43% of science students social and 39% of humanities science students.

" Students have reached the point where they created their own rules, " said the researcher, headed by Donald McCabe, professor of business administration at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "They will change the rules set by professors, because they think they're silly and inappropriate."

The study defines that fraud involves copying other people's work, stealing other people's ideas and bringing materials into the examination room.

McCabe said business students think fraud is a necessary measure and an activity that they need to be proficient in the professional world.

"It has formed a popular notion that it is important that you accomplish your task, but it is not important how to do it , " McCabe concluded.

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