I TA’ed a course at my state university a few years back. We had some program that attracted hundreds of students from the UAE. Many were obviously from wealthy families and drove Mercedes and BMWs, etc.

The amount of cheating on exams and complete lack of effort on studying by the vast majority (+80%) was astounding. We were essentially hand feeding them to get them to learn the material.

The professor was very frustrated but (I presume) was told you can’t come down hard on them. They were obviously a huge income source for the university.

Reason #53 why modern university has basically become a scam.

I’ve seen lots of variations on this. Community colleges seem to have gotten in on it in a big way.