IU Athletics Earns Highest Graduation Success Rate in School History
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IU Athletics Release
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The NCAA announced today its annual Graduation Success Rate (GSR) data for all its member institutions and IU Athletics set a record for the highest GSR in school history. IU students who participate in intercollegiate athletics and initially enrolled between 2006-09 garnered an 88 percent GSR, IU’s highest mark in the 12-year history of the GSR data.
The GSR measures graduation over six years from first-time college enrollment and includes transfer students. Five Indiana programs finished with a perfect 100 score, including men’s golf, women’s golf, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving and women’s tennis. These perfect scores mark the 12th straight for IU women’s golf and women’s tennis programs, the 11th straight for women’s soccer, the eighth straight for women’s swimming and diving and the third consecutive for men’s golf.
"We are committed to our students reaching their highest academic potential and earning Indiana University degrees," said Indiana Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass. "We are so proud that our students have achieved the highest GSR in school history. This record setting year reflects the profound commitment to academic excellence by our coaches, staff and most importantly, our students.”
In comparison to the overall NCAA Division I GSR, 15 Indiana athletics programs had scores that were equal to or greater than the national average. Those IU programs include men’s basketball, men’s golf, men’s track and field, men’s cross country, women’s basketball, rowing, field hockey, women’s golf, softball, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving, women’s tennis, women’s track and field, women’s cross country and water polo.
In May, the NCAA released its most recent Academic Progress Rate (APR) and eight teams earned a perfect 1,000 APR for the 2014-15 academic year, as all of IU’s 24 sports comfortably exceeded NCAA required standards.
The APR is a real-time measure of eligibility and retention of student competing on every Division I sports team.
The NCAA also recognized men’s golf, men’s soccer, women’s tennis and volleyball with an APR Public Recognition Award, which is given to high-performing teams that posted multiyear APRs in the top 10 percent of all squads in their sports.