MAAC Athletes Exceed NCAA Division I Overall Graduation Rates
MAAC Sports
Edison, NJ - According to a recent NCAA release, more college athletes continue to
graduate at the highest levels since the NCAA began calculating the rate eight
years ago.
Key findings from the MAAC
Graduation Success Rate (GSR) data include the following:
- In every conference sport, except one, the MAAC
schools exceeded the NCAA Division I average graduation success rate.
- Seventy-six teams had a perfect graduation rate
of 100%.
- Eleven of the nineteen MAAC sports improved their
overall graduation rates from last year.
- MAAC men's basketball players graduated 17.3
percentage points higher than the NCAA Division I average, while women's
basketball players were 12.3% higher than the NCAA average.
- Fairfield, Loyola, and Marist had 100% graduation rates in
12 of their sports.
- Women's lacrosse has the highest average
graduation rate (99%) amongst all MAAC sports, followed by softball at
96%, women's swimming, women's basketball, and volleyball at 95%.
The graduation success rate (GSR) is a freshman-cohort
rate which indicates the percentage of freshmen who entered during a given
academic year and graduated within six years. Added to the freshman are those
students who entered midyear, as well as student-athletes who transferred into
an institution. In addition, the GSR subtracts students from the entering
cohort who are considered allowable exclusions (those who either die or become
permanently disabled, those who leave the school to join the armed forces, foreign
services or attend a church mission), as well as those who would have been
academically eligible to compete had they returned to the institution
Click here for NCAA press
release.