NCAA Releases GSR Scores
12/2/2021 4:24:00 PM | General
INDIANAPOLIS - In graduation data released by the NCAA on Thursday (Dec. 2) Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodon student-athletes have a four-class average (2014-15) of 80 percent in the Graduation Success Rate (GSR).
Women's golf picked up a perfect GSR score of 100 for a 11th consecutive season. Men's Basketball and men's volleyball also recorded perfect scores of 100. It is the second straight year of a perfect 100 for men's volleyball and men's basketball. Women's soccer (90) and men's golf (90) also notched scores 90 or better.
Eight Mastodon programs improved or matched their GSR from last season.
Only four other Horizon League men's basketball programs earned a GSR of 100. Evansville and Butler were the only other men's basketball teams in the state of Indiana to record a 100.
Only 10 men's volleyball programs in the nation totaled a GSR of 100 with Ball State being the only other Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association program.
Mastodon student-athletes had an impressive year in the classroom in 2020-21, posting a 3.22 cumulative GPA making it the 18th-straight year with at least a 3.0 GPA. It was the highest single-year GPA in the program's history.
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.
The four-class average Federal Graduation Rate for Mastodon student-athletes is 57 percent, 22 points better than the FGR of the overall student body over the same classes.
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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