Cohort

A cohort is an SFS feature that allows you to create sub-groups in an institution. These sub-groups can have different academic term dates, payment plan configurations, and due dates.

For example, if your institution has an undergraduate school and a graduate (postgraduate) school, you can create separate cohorts for each school. This allows you to configure undergraduate and graduate students with different payment plans and due dates.

If you create cohorts for your institution, all students must be added to a cohort. You cannot have some students in a cohort and some students outside a cohort.

You can use the root institution to run reports that include all cohorts.

SFS allows the specification of a default cohort for your institution.