Collegiate athletes are graduating at the highest rate since the NCAA began collecting data seven years ago, NCAA President Myles Brand said Tuesday.
The most recent Graduation Success Rates (GSR) show that 79% of freshmen athletes who entered college in 2001 earned their four-year degrees.
“Academic reform is alive and well on campuses nationwide,” Brand said. “Student-athletes are good students and our research shows, if you give them 10 years, which allows them to stop and come back, nine out of 10 earn college degrees.”
Marquette University, one of four Division I programs in Wisconsin, had perfect GSR scores in men’s basketball, men’s golf, men’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s cross country and track, and women’s tennis and volleyball.
At the University of Wisconsin, men’s basketball had a GSR score of 86%, while football recorded a GSR score of 63% and men’s ice hockey had a 72% GSR. Among UW women, the basketball program had a GSR of 80%, while ice hockey had a GSR of 96%.