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NCAA Releases Graduation Success Rate

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The NCAA has released the latest Graduation Success Rate for all Division I institutions. Wofford had six of 13 teams post a score of 100, the highest score available.
 
Wofford teams that had a score of 100 included women’s cross country/track, men’s cross country/track, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s tennis, and women’s tennis. Overall eleven of the 13 teams posted a score of 90 or above.
 
Among Southern Conference institutions, Davidson had ten teams score a 100, followed by Furman and Samford with seven and Wofford with six. Wofford’s football team posted a score of 88, third in the conference behind Furman at 95 and Samford at 91.
 
The single-year GSR for student-athletes who began college in 2006 is 82 percent, a new high for the NCAA. 
 
ABOUT THE GSR
The Graduation Success Rate was developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform initiative to more accurately measure the success of Division I student-athletes. 
  • The GSR takes into account the many different academic paths followed by today’s college students.
  • Unlike the federal graduation rate, the GSR holds institutions accountable for transfer students. The GSR also accounts for midyear enrollees and is calculated for every sport.
  • By counting incoming transfer students and midyear enrollees, the GSR increases the total number of student-athletes tracked for graduation by approximately 37 percent.
  • Under the GSR calculation, institutions are not penalized for outgoing transfer students who leave in good academic standing.  These outgoing transfers are essentially passed to the receiving institution’s GSR cohort. 
  • The NCAA also calculates the federal graduation rate for student-athletes, because it is the only rate to compare student-athletes to the general student body.
  • The most recent Graduation Success Rates are based on the four entering freshmen classes in Division I from 2003-2004 through 2006-07.
  • This year marks the 12th year of GSR data that have been collected. The NCAA began collecting GSR data with the entering freshman class of 1995. The latest entering class for which data are available is 2006.
  • For complete statistics on GSR and Federal Graduation Rates, please visit www.ncaa.org.
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