If an individual pursues a college degree taking the easiest classes and paying friends to write essays and papers, the action is classified as

The Answer is that the action is classified as "instrumental rational".
Max Weber classified social action as four types that are:
instrumental rational, value-rational, affectional and traditional.
An instrumental rational action is an instrumentally objective move that one made in view of its foreseen capacity to accomplish some considered end.
And also an instrumental rationality is a particular type of rationality concentrating on the most productive or financially savvy intends to accomplish a particular end, however not in itself shows about the estimation of that end.