for funding purposes, courses are grouped together by industry. Different levels of funding are given for different industry groups.

Corporations are often grouped by the industry to which they belong. A few industry groups are Financial Services, Industrials and Transportation.

Industry group as defined by Standard & Poor's.

A William O'Neil + Company Inc. proprietary classification of stocks into 197 groups, based on a company's major source of revenue, competitors, products, markets served, etc.

Classification units are rolled together with similar types of businesses to form industry groups. A historical cost rate is calculated for each industry group.