INDIANAPOLIS — Nearly every main demographic group of top college athletes exceeds the graduation rate for its student-body counterparts.
According to federal graduation rates released Tuesday by the NCAA, 63 percent of Division I scholarship athletes who started college as freshmen in 2000 graduated in six years. That beats the graduation rate for all students at Division I schools by 1 percent and equaled last year’s percentage.
At the University of Wisconsin, scholarship athletes (76 percent) graduated at essentially the same rate as the student body (78 percent) in that six-year period.