Quinnipiac Achieves Great Success in NCAA’s Annual GSR Report
10/16/2019 10:26:00 AM | General
HAMDEN, Connecticut – Quinnipiac student-athletes continue to graduate at one of the highest rates in the country. Using the most recent data released on Wednesday, Oct. 16 in the NCAA's annual Graduation Success Rate (GSR) report, 94 percent of student-athletes who entered Quinnipiac as freshmen in 2012 graduated, compared to the national Division I average of 89 percent. The 94 percent GSR is the highest Quinnipiac has received in the history of the report.
The report released Wednesday by the NCAA reflects the six-year graduation rates for college athletes who entered school in 2012. The four-class average includes those who entered as freshmen in 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. The GSR formula removes from the rate student-athletes who leave school while academically eligible and includes student-athletes who transfer to a school after initially enrolling elsewhere.
In all, 15 Quinnipiac programs scored above the national average: baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's & women's cross country, women's track and field, women's golf, men's & women's ice hockey, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, softball and men's & women's tennis, volleyball, and a combination of rugby and acrobatics & tumbling.
11 Quinnipiac programs – men's & women's basketball, men's & women's cross country/track, golf, men's ice hockey, women's soccer, women's softball, men's & women's tennis, and volleyball – recorded a perfect GSR score of 100.
Quinnipiac has boasted a GSR of 80% or higher in all NCAA reports since the rate was first released in 2005.
The NCAA also reported Graduation Success Rate by conference. Quinnipiac's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) posted an overall Graduation Success Rate at 91%.
Quinnipiac's men's basketball program surpassed the cohort GSR national average by a large margin, boasting a 100% cohort GSR according to the report, 17 percentage points higher than the national average of 83%.
The GSR was developed by the NCAA in an effort to more accurately measure the academic success of Division I student-athletes by better accounting for the various academic avenues followed by today's college students. The GSR begins with the federal cohort and adds transfer students, mid-year enrollees and non-scholarship students.
The NCAA gauges the federal graduation rate for student-athletes, because it is the only rate to compare student-athletes to the general student body. FGR assesses only first-time full-time freshmen in a given cohort and only counts them as academic successes if they graduate from their institution of initial enrollment within a six-year period.
The report released Wednesday by the NCAA reflects the six-year graduation rates for college athletes who entered school in 2012. The four-class average includes those who entered as freshmen in 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. The GSR formula removes from the rate student-athletes who leave school while academically eligible and includes student-athletes who transfer to a school after initially enrolling elsewhere.
In all, 15 Quinnipiac programs scored above the national average: baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's & women's cross country, women's track and field, women's golf, men's & women's ice hockey, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, softball and men's & women's tennis, volleyball, and a combination of rugby and acrobatics & tumbling.
11 Quinnipiac programs – men's & women's basketball, men's & women's cross country/track, golf, men's ice hockey, women's soccer, women's softball, men's & women's tennis, and volleyball – recorded a perfect GSR score of 100.
Quinnipiac has boasted a GSR of 80% or higher in all NCAA reports since the rate was first released in 2005.
The NCAA also reported Graduation Success Rate by conference. Quinnipiac's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) posted an overall Graduation Success Rate at 91%.
Quinnipiac's men's basketball program surpassed the cohort GSR national average by a large margin, boasting a 100% cohort GSR according to the report, 17 percentage points higher than the national average of 83%.
The GSR was developed by the NCAA in an effort to more accurately measure the academic success of Division I student-athletes by better accounting for the various academic avenues followed by today's college students. The GSR begins with the federal cohort and adds transfer students, mid-year enrollees and non-scholarship students.
The NCAA gauges the federal graduation rate for student-athletes, because it is the only rate to compare student-athletes to the general student body. FGR assesses only first-time full-time freshmen in a given cohort and only counts them as academic successes if they graduate from their institution of initial enrollment within a six-year period.
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