Mastodon Athletics Posts Strong GSR Scores
10/16/2019 4:06:00 PM | General
INDIANAPOLIS - In graduation data released by the NCAA on Wednesday (Oct. 16) Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodon student-athletes have a four-class average (2012-13) of 79 percent in the Graduation Success Rate (GSR).
The four-class average Federal Graduation Rate for Mastodon student-athletes is 58 percent, a rate of more than double the 28 percent FGR of the overall student body.
Women's golf picked up a perfect GSR score of 100 for a ninth consecutive season. Men's volleyball, women's basketball, men's basketball and women's soccer gathered GSR scores of 90 or better. Softball was just on the edge at 89.
Seven Mastodon programs improved or matched their GSR from last season.
Men's basketball's GSR of 92 tied with Notre Dame for third best in the state of Indiana among men's hoops programs. Men's volleyball's 90 ranked 12th in the nation. Women's soccer's 94 ranked second in the Summit League.
Mastodon student-athletes had an impressive year in the classroom in 2018-19, posting a 3.24 cumulative GPA making it the 16th-straight year with at least a 3.0 GPA. In addition, Purdue Fort Wayne student-athletes contributed in excess of 4,000 hours of service.
Measured as a four-year metric, the GSR is for the most recent four graduating classes of all Division I student-athletes. The NCAA's Graduation Success Rate includes transfer students and student-athletes who leave in good academic standing, unlike the federal graduation rate, which does not account for transfers. The GSR and federal rate calculations measure graduation over six years from first-time college enrollment.
The federal graduation rate, while less inclusive than the GSR, provides the only measure of historic academic comparison between student-athletes and the general student body. By this standard, student-athletes consistently outperform nearly all their peers in the student body. Since 1990, the NCAA has annually released graduation rate information on its member institutions from data collected by the U.S. Department of Education. In 2005, the NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance implemented the initial release of the GSR data.
Neither the federal graduation rate nor the graduation success rate should be confused with the academic progress rate (APR), which is a real-time calculation of academic progress for all student-athletes receiving financial aid, and will be released by the NCAA later this academic year.
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