A cohort is a classification assigned to new, undergraduate degree-seeking students upon entry to the University, based on shared characteristics for reporting purposes. Cohorts are determined using census enrollment snapshot data.
Students are assigned to one of eight cohorts:
- Full-time, Bachelors degree seeking, Freshman
- Full-time, Bachelors degree seeking, Transfer
- Part-time, Bachelors degree seeking, Freshman
- Part-time, Bachelors degree seeking, Transfer
- Full-time, Associates degree seeking, Freshman
- Full-time, Associates degree seeking, Transfer
- Part-time, Associates degree seeking, Freshman
- Part-time, Associates degree seeking, Transfer
Criteria for Cohort Assignment:
Cohort assignment is driven by the following fields:
Enrollment status (full-time/part-time) based on credits at census.
Identified as bachelors or associates degree-seeking at census.
Level id of Undergraduate at census.
Degree level (primary degree ID) of the declared program at census.
Student type of Freshman or Transfer at census.
Students are placed in a cohort once, during the term where they are classified as Freshman (F) or Transfer (T). These student types are undergraduate degree-seeking students.
Once assigned, students remain in their cohort. Readmitted students retain their original cohort.
When a student with the student type of High School (H) enrolls as a degree seeking student after they graduate from high school they are assigned a student type of Freshman (F) or Transfer (T) and are placed in a cohort.
Non-Cohort Students:
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Graduate students are not assigned a cohort.
- While graduate students may have been part of a cohort during their undergraduate studies, no cohort assignments are made for graduate students.
Non degree-seeking students.
When a student with a student type of Personal Interest, Non-Degree (P) moves into a degree-seeking program, they do not get placed in a cohort. They move from a student type of Personal Interest, Non-Degree (P) to Continuing Registration (C). Because they never have a student type of Freshman (F) or Transfer (T) they are never placed in a cohort.
Cohorts prior to 2009 are not in Edify. If a student was placed in a cohort before 2009, they are non-cohorted or null.
Students who had an incorrect student type assignment at Census that should have been a Freshman (F) or Transfer (T) are not placed in a cohort.