Do you think B-school students cheat more than students in other disciplines?

A new study says B-schoolers are more likely to cheat than other students.  Now administrators are fighting back.

Read BusinessWeek.com's latest story on this topic at: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/sep2006/bs20060924_360692.htm, and post your comments here.

Regards,

Jessica Sanders | BusinessWeek.com

Are you referring to cheating to get into business school; for example, using Admissions Consultants.  Or are you referring to cheating once in buiness school?  Or after business school?

C4L

Dear CEB,

Our story refers to a study of students cheating while they are in graduate business school.  But that's just one aspect of the cheating problem, as your post seems to indicate.

Phil Mintz

B-schools Channel Editor, BusinessWeek.com

Why do you feel that using a coach is cheating?

I go to a upper tier B school. We recently had someone cheat. I do not know the outcome. I find it insulting to cheat in a grad school situation, or any school situation period. You are there to learn. It's not a baseball game where you try to doctor the ball to win the game. If you don't learn it, and you go out and try to perform, you will fall on your face anyway. The degree won't be worth much then.

Why would anyone cheat at b-school???  What would they cheat on??  The material is very easy.  Beyond that, at any decent school grades are irrelevant.

CEB for Life

Gee.  I don't know.  Maybe because all the decent schools ask you to sign a verification that all the work you're sending in is unequivocally your own and that you haven't had any help on any aspect of the application.

Beyond that minor point, I guess using an Admissions Consultant is a-ok.

CEB for Life

easy on the attitude...

in case you don't know, admission consultant doesn't write essays or touch any part of your application. at most, they help you formulate strategy and brainstorm... just like a book or a friend would have done....

in that case, your application is still your own work

Uh huh.  So you're saying they don't read your draft essays and make suggestions.  Is that what you're saying???

C4L