Common Elements Used in Financial Aid

Designates all course work undertaken by a student at your academic institution that you group together in a single student record. For example, a university that has an undergraduate school, a graduate school, and several professional schools can define an undergraduate career, graduate career, and a separate career for each professional school.

A separate entity, such as a university or college, that runs independently from other like entities and has its own set of rules and business processes. Throughout your student administration system you use Academic Institution as a key value to group data into tables and search against those tables to extract data.

An area or areas of study that a student declares after the student is admitted to an academic program. Academic plans are linked to academic careers or academic programs.

The entity to which a student applies, is admitted, and ultimately graduates. Rules such as academic standing, honors/awards, and repeats are attached at the academic program level.

Academic subplans can be defined as minors, concentrations, or specializations. They are directly linked to an academic plan.

The period of time you define as one school year.

Used in Financial Aid to designate a year of accounting for financial aid awarding.

See Academic Career.

See Academic Institution.

Identifier that classifies an item on a customer's account. Item types enable schools to uniquely categorize a customer's bill.