Fresh perspectives and big tuition payments aren’t the only things foreign students are bringing to American college campuses, apparently. There’s another: cheating. The Wall Street Journal used (paywall) the Freedom of Information Act to ask 50 public universities with high foreign enrollment for a breakdown of academic integrity violations committed by international and domestic students. Most of the schools said they didn’t have such specific information, but 14 of them did. Data from these institutions show higher rates of alleged cheating among foreign students compared with their domestic counterparts. And a lot higher, at that. According to the Journal’s analysis of these schools’ records
Foreign students studying at US universities are seen to cheat more than American students, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Citing data from 14 large public universities, The Journal noted that public universities recorded 5.1 reports of alleged cheating per 100 international students, compared to one report of cheating per 100 American students. The Journal requested data from 50 different public universities with student bodies heavy with foreign enrollment, though only 14 were able to provide complete data for the 2014-15 academic year. At nearly every school, reports of cheating involving foreign students were twice as high, ranging up to as much as eight times as high at some