It’s been quite a year. Here are the stories that our readers viewed most in 2011 (insert drum roll here):

Cheating and which colleges enjoy edges over their competitors were hot topics in 2011. Why do students cheat? Which schools are considered most influential? What community colleges are best? These are some of the questions we looked at over the past year. Here the the year’s top 10 stories, in order:

1.  Top 4  reasons college students cheat
2.  Students’ new drug of choice
3.  Does this SAT question go too far?
4.  Top 8 ways students are cheating today
5.  Why are more college students becoming atheists?
6.  The most influential colleges in the U.S.
7.  Survey: Incoming students hit new low
8.  Which major isn’t preparing grads for the real world?
9.  The top 10 community colleges
10. The top 5 ways students use technology to cheat

Tags: college cheating, college readiness, college substance abuse