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Ball State Student-Athletes Graduating at All-Time High Rate
November 18, 2020 | General
Link: NCAA Database
MUNCIE, Ind. -- Ball State University student-athletes continue to set records in the classroom, this time with a new graduation rate best according to the NCAA's Graduation Success Rate (GSR) report released Tuesday, Nov. 17.
In the latest report, the Cardinals' student-athletes recorded an institutional-record Graduation Success Rate of 90 percent. The total is four points higher than last year's report and a 23-point increase from the numbers released in 2013-14.
"We are incredibly proud of the academic accomplishments of our student-athletes reflected in this record graduation success rate," Ball State University Director of Athletics Beth Goetz said. "It is a credit to the commitment and hard work of our student-athletes, faculty, and staff. Graduating our athletes is our top priority, and their first step in the journey to fulfilling careers and meaningful lives."
The latest numbers represent scholarship student-athletes over a six-year period starting with freshmen that entered college in 2013. All of Ball State's 17 teams (cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field count as one team for this report) either matched or improved their scores from last year.
In addition, six programs boasted a 100 percent graduation rate: Men's Golf, Men's Swimming & Diving, Men's Volleyball, Women's Swimming & Diving, Women's Tennis and Women's Volleyball.
The announcement of the record-setting GSR follows a 2020 spring semester which saw Ball State student-athletes earn a record 3.32 term grade point average. In addition, the Cardinals' most recent single-year departmental Academic Progress Rate (APR) was a record 991, with 13 teams achieving a perfect score.
The federal graduation rate, which is less inclusive than the GSR and released alongside those numbers, provides the only measure of historic academic comparison between student-athletes and the general student body. Using this standard, Ball State student-athletes graduated at a department-record 76 percent in the latest report, which is 11 points higher than last year and 10 points higher than their Ball State peers.
Overall, nine out of 10 student-athletes who started college in 2013 across all NCAA Division I programs earned a degree. It's the highest rate ever and an increase of one percentage point over the rate for students who entered school in 2012.
For more information on Graduation Success Rates, please visit www.ncaa.org.
MUNCIE, Ind. -- Ball State University student-athletes continue to set records in the classroom, this time with a new graduation rate best according to the NCAA's Graduation Success Rate (GSR) report released Tuesday, Nov. 17.
In the latest report, the Cardinals' student-athletes recorded an institutional-record Graduation Success Rate of 90 percent. The total is four points higher than last year's report and a 23-point increase from the numbers released in 2013-14.
"We are incredibly proud of the academic accomplishments of our student-athletes reflected in this record graduation success rate," Ball State University Director of Athletics Beth Goetz said. "It is a credit to the commitment and hard work of our student-athletes, faculty, and staff. Graduating our athletes is our top priority, and their first step in the journey to fulfilling careers and meaningful lives."
The latest numbers represent scholarship student-athletes over a six-year period starting with freshmen that entered college in 2013. All of Ball State's 17 teams (cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field count as one team for this report) either matched or improved their scores from last year.
In addition, six programs boasted a 100 percent graduation rate: Men's Golf, Men's Swimming & Diving, Men's Volleyball, Women's Swimming & Diving, Women's Tennis and Women's Volleyball.
The announcement of the record-setting GSR follows a 2020 spring semester which saw Ball State student-athletes earn a record 3.32 term grade point average. In addition, the Cardinals' most recent single-year departmental Academic Progress Rate (APR) was a record 991, with 13 teams achieving a perfect score.
The federal graduation rate, which is less inclusive than the GSR and released alongside those numbers, provides the only measure of historic academic comparison between student-athletes and the general student body. Using this standard, Ball State student-athletes graduated at a department-record 76 percent in the latest report, which is 11 points higher than last year and 10 points higher than their Ball State peers.
Overall, nine out of 10 student-athletes who started college in 2013 across all NCAA Division I programs earned a degree. It's the highest rate ever and an increase of one percentage point over the rate for students who entered school in 2012.
Nine out of every 10 Division I student-athlete earns a degree – an all-time high: https://t.co/TfAp7r1f7a pic.twitter.com/aerP1PJlwc
— NCAA (@NCAA) November 17, 2020
For more information on Graduation Success Rates, please visit www.ncaa.org.
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