Is inheritnace the only option

[metulburr]

inheritance would make sense here.

But a couple things

1. you can get rid of the private variables as well as the getters and setters. If you need the class variables, just use them.
   
2. use format not concatenation 
   

return "ID: " + self.iden + " " + " First: " + self.first_name + " Last Name: " + self.last_name + " " + " Type: " + self.student_type

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return "ID: {} First: {} Last Name: {} Type: {}".format(self.iden, self.first_name, self.last_name, self.student_type)