Abstract
Academic dishonesty may be seen as a deceitful endeavour to avoid academic rules, principles, practices, traditions, and values to gain illegal benefit. Academic dishonesty is a worldwide concern. The main aim of the study was to identify the views of Pakistani students towards academic corruption as well as to find out any differences in their perceptions towards academic dishonesty at the university level. It was quantitative research and a survey was conducted to investigate the academic dishonesty among students. An adopted questionnaire based on a 5-point Likert scale was used to collect the data from three hundred randomly selected respondents. Frequencies, percentages, Mean, Standard deviation, independent sample t-test, and One Way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that approximately half of the participants are, consciously or unconsciously, involved in the activities which may be termed as cheating. They also think that cheaters are considered to be smart people in the country. Moreover, students cheat as they desire to earn good grades in exams and it is in line with the general trend in society. Teachers may motivate their students to focus on learning rather than grades only. They may help their students overcome their fear of failure to reduce the practices of academic dishonesty.