A growing trend in BCom programs in the USA is for students to go through the entire program together as a cohort class. A cohort is a group of students who enter into and finish their program studies together. In large BCom programs the cohort may be divided into smaller sub-cohorts. The members of each cohort journey together along a common path of learning and socialization that leads to both personal and professional growth and development. Thus, each student is part of a group in which fellow students take an interest in each other's attainments. BCom cohort members form mutually supporting networks that endure, for many of them, throughout their subsequent graduate study and professional careers.