400 MBA Students in China to Lose Their Degrees Over “Widespread” Cheating
July 29th, 2010 by 
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Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, is withholding MBA degrees from its 400 students in satellite business schools in China and Taiwan after finding the widespread cases of cheating among local students.
The college officials also said all master programs in Beijing, Shanghai and Taiwan would have to be suspended because of this.
Students are offered to take the comprehensive exam to earn their degree or get a tuition refund, according to Debra Albanese, the school’s vice-president for strategic advancement. They have till the end of the month to decide upon it. So far, most students have opted for the refund of their $1,200-to-$1,400 tuition. Many think it’s a significant downgrade, because the full course is worth more than $25,000 or 36 credits with $705 per each, according to Centenary official website.
Centenary, a 3,000-student private college, has offered its executive MBA degrees in China since 2004 for Chinese-speaking and English-speaking students who seek to work for Far East departments of Western Corporations.
Investigations of China and Taiwan school programs began in January 2009 at the request of the new president Barbara-Jayne Lewthwaite. After cheating problems were revealed, the reaction was almost instant.
The school officials refuse to give more details about the cheating case nor do they wish to comment on reasons of degrees withholding to all 400 students in three locations.
The only case-pertaining remark was those of Debra Albanese: “The college is extremely concerned with the welfare of the Chinese students involved in the program but must note that its review revealed evidence of widespread plagiarism, among other issues, at a level that ordinarily would have resulted in students’ immediate dismissal from the college”.
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