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MBA students 'cheat the most'

By Della Bradshaw in London

Published: September 21 2006 03:00 | Last updated: September 21 2006 03:00

MBA students are the biggest cheats of all graduate students, with 56 per cent admitting to misdemeanours such as using crib notesin exams, plagiarism and downloading essays fromthe internet.

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 bus-iness programmes.

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