How is a cohort determined for the data collection?
The initial cohort will consist of all full-time undergraduate students whose first matriculation at the CSP institution occurred after July 1, 2005 but no later than June 30, 2006. The second cohort will consist of similar students entering between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, and so on for subsequent cohorts. Each cohort includes new students who entered in the fall, winter or spring, and transfer students who entered at any time during this period. Note that the dates used are the same as those used in the NCAA financial aid data collection project. The entering cohort being used by the NCAA and the CSP is not identical with the fall entering student cohort collected by IPEDS for Student Right-to-Know graduation rate reporting.
