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Massachusetts Athletics Posts Highest-Ever Graduation Success Rate In Latest NCAA Report
November 20, 2024 | Athletics Department
The latest set of NCAA Graduation Success Rate data was released Wednesday.
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Athletics posted its highest ever Graduation Success Rate in the latest NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program report, at 90%. The latest data set included information from the 2014-15 to 2017-18 freshman cohorts.
Based on NCAA groupings for GSR ratings, seven of Massachusetts' 17 programs earned perfect 100 scores including women's basketball, rowing, field hockey, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, women's swimming & diving and tennis. The Massachusetts men's and women's cross country and track & field, men's lacrosse and softball also posted rates higher than 90%. Differing from the Federal Graduation Rate, the NCAA GSR holds colleges accountable for student-athletes who transfer to their school, but the GSR does not penalize colleges whose student-athletes leave the institution in good academic standing.
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Based on NCAA groupings for GSR ratings, seven of Massachusetts' 17 programs earned perfect 100 scores including women's basketball, rowing, field hockey, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, women's swimming & diving and tennis. The Massachusetts men's and women's cross country and track & field, men's lacrosse and softball also posted rates higher than 90%. Differing from the Federal Graduation Rate, the NCAA GSR holds colleges accountable for student-athletes who transfer to their school, but the GSR does not penalize colleges whose student-athletes leave the institution in good academic standing.
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- The NCAA's GSR releases began with the 1998 cohort and now includes 20 sets of data.
- Massachusetts women's basketball posted a 10th consecutive 100 (tenth overall).
- Massachusetts rowing: posted a third consecutive 100 (eighth overall).
- Massachusetts field hockey: posted a sixth consecutive 100 (12th overall).
- Massachusetts women's lacrosse: posted third consecutive 100 (fifth overall).
- Massachusetts women's soccer: posted a fifth consecutive 100 (11th overall).
- Massachusetts tennis: posted an eighth consecutive 100 (12th overall).
- Massachusetts women's swimming and diving: posted a fourth consecutive 100 (fourth overall).
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