Q:

What is the right term to refer to "all students" admitted in year 2014?

All students graduated in 2014 can be referred to as "class of 2014", but what term is used to refer "all students" admitted in year 2014?
Thanks!

A:

Either "the class of 2018"*  or "2014 matriculants."
* assuming the usual length of study to attain a degree is four years; in law school in the US it is 3 years, so for law school it would be "the class of 2017" instead.
matriculant

A person who is enrolled as a student in a college or university.

from Oxford Living Dictionaries

The predictive validity of the MCAT exam in relation to academic performance through medical school: a national cohort study of 2001–2004 matriculants.

article in Academic Medicine journal

The 2016 matriculants of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D.
Programs

City College of New York
For schools at which students do not all start in the same semester or term, the starting term may also be indicated--for example, Fall 2014 matriculants.

