70 PERCENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS CHEAT IN US

August 14, 1991

Almost 70 percent of today's American college students have cheated at least once during their college careers, according to a study by Donald McCabe, a professor at Rutgers Graduate School of Management. A survey of 6,000 students at 31 schools shows that 78 percent of aspiring MBA students admitted to cheating, compared with 69 percent of those planning to attend medical school.At schools without honor codes, 30 percent of the students cheated regularly, compared with 5 percent at schools with honor codes.