TEMPE, Ariz.—Sun Devil Athletics has recorded an all-time high 87 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for its student-athletes, the NCAA announced Tuesday.
Sun Devil Athletics has either tied or surpassed its all-time best GSR in each of the past 10 years. This year’s mark, which is three-percent higher than the all-time high announced in 2015, ranks second in the Pac-12 Conference and first among public institutions in the league.
Sun Devil Athletics’ GSR has risen 18 percent since the metric was first introduced by the NCAA in 2005, and surpassed its original goal of 80 percent in 2012.
“We are proud to announce our all-time high Graduation Success Rate at Arizona State,” said Ray Anderson, Vice President of University Athletics. “Graduating student-athletes and competitive success are keystones to defining the Sun Devil Way. The student-athlete is the centerpiece of our department’s efforts. Jean Boyd, his staff, and our coaches not only teach leadership, risk-taking, and teamwork, but also complement the invaluable academic growth gained from the classroom.”
Sun Devil Athletics’ male student-athlete GSR is 83 percent, an all-time high for the department, up four percent from a year ago. Since the NCAA began reporting men’s GSR in 2005, the percentage has improved from 56 percent. ASU’s African American student-athlete GSR also hit at an all-time high at 85 percent.
Men’s basketball’s GSR of 93 percent leads the Pac-12 Conference, while baseball’s 89 percent and football’s 80 percent both rank third best amongst schools in the league. Overall the men’s basketball’s GSR has improved 62 percent over the last nine years.
Arizona State’s female student-athlete GSR is up one percent from a year ago to 91 percent, with three teams reaching 100 percent graduation success: women’s golf, softball, and women’s tennis.
“Sun Devil Athletics is dedicated to developing student-athletes who graduate and go on to live championship lives,” said Jean Boyd, Senior Associate Athletic Director of Student-Athlete Development and Performance. “Earning a meaningful bachelor’s degree is an important element to this commitment. Reaching an all-time high of 87 percent speaks to academic coaches, sport coaches, administrators and student-athletes being in sync on impacting the student-athlete experience. We will remain relentless in these efforts and look forward to reaching our target of 90 percent.”
The GSR is based on student-athletes who entered college as freshmen in 2006-2009 and ultimately entered ASU on athletic aid as freshmen or transfers. The GSR allows for the removal of those individuals from the cohort who left ASU in good academic standing prior to completing their eligibility and is the NCAA's primary tool for measuring academic success.
The GSR is the NCAA's more comprehensive calculation of student-athlete academic success. The NCAA rate is more accurate than the federally mandated methodology because it includes incoming transfers and students enrolling in the spring semester who receive athletic aid and graduate and deletes from the calculation student-athletes who leave an institution and were academically eligible to compete. The federal rate does neither.
Conversely, the APR, or Academic Progress Rate, is a year-by-year gauge of eligibility and retention for Division I scholarship student-athletes that was established in 2004. It is a composite team measurement based upon how individual team members do academically, and the NCAA APR threshold is 925, which is the equivalent of a 50-percent graduation rate.
This is the 26th release of institutional graduation rates since national "right-to-know" legislation was passed in 1990. In 2005, the NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance implemented the initial release of the team GSR data.
Sun Devil Athletics has either tied or surpassed its all-time best GSR in each of the past 10 years. This year’s mark, which is three-percent higher than the all-time high announced in 2015, ranks second in the Pac-12 Conference and first among public institutions in the league.
Sun Devil Athletics’ GSR has risen 18 percent since the metric was first introduced by the NCAA in 2005, and surpassed its original goal of 80 percent in 2012.
“We are proud to announce our all-time high Graduation Success Rate at Arizona State,” said Ray Anderson, Vice President of University Athletics. “Graduating student-athletes and competitive success are keystones to defining the Sun Devil Way. The student-athlete is the centerpiece of our department’s efforts. Jean Boyd, his staff, and our coaches not only teach leadership, risk-taking, and teamwork, but also complement the invaluable academic growth gained from the classroom.”
Sun Devil Athletics’ male student-athlete GSR is 83 percent, an all-time high for the department, up four percent from a year ago. Since the NCAA began reporting men’s GSR in 2005, the percentage has improved from 56 percent. ASU’s African American student-athlete GSR also hit at an all-time high at 85 percent.
Men’s basketball’s GSR of 93 percent leads the Pac-12 Conference, while baseball’s 89 percent and football’s 80 percent both rank third best amongst schools in the league. Overall the men’s basketball’s GSR has improved 62 percent over the last nine years.
Arizona State’s female student-athlete GSR is up one percent from a year ago to 91 percent, with three teams reaching 100 percent graduation success: women’s golf, softball, and women’s tennis.
“Sun Devil Athletics is dedicated to developing student-athletes who graduate and go on to live championship lives,” said Jean Boyd, Senior Associate Athletic Director of Student-Athlete Development and Performance. “Earning a meaningful bachelor’s degree is an important element to this commitment. Reaching an all-time high of 87 percent speaks to academic coaches, sport coaches, administrators and student-athletes being in sync on impacting the student-athlete experience. We will remain relentless in these efforts and look forward to reaching our target of 90 percent.”
The GSR is based on student-athletes who entered college as freshmen in 2006-2009 and ultimately entered ASU on athletic aid as freshmen or transfers. The GSR allows for the removal of those individuals from the cohort who left ASU in good academic standing prior to completing their eligibility and is the NCAA's primary tool for measuring academic success.
The GSR is the NCAA's more comprehensive calculation of student-athlete academic success. The NCAA rate is more accurate than the federally mandated methodology because it includes incoming transfers and students enrolling in the spring semester who receive athletic aid and graduate and deletes from the calculation student-athletes who leave an institution and were academically eligible to compete. The federal rate does neither.
Conversely, the APR, or Academic Progress Rate, is a year-by-year gauge of eligibility and retention for Division I scholarship student-athletes that was established in 2004. It is a composite team measurement based upon how individual team members do academically, and the NCAA APR threshold is 925, which is the equivalent of a 50-percent graduation rate.
This is the 26th release of institutional graduation rates since national "right-to-know" legislation was passed in 1990. In 2005, the NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance implemented the initial release of the team GSR data.
