GSR Scores Continue to Rise

INDIANAPOLIS - In graduation data released by the NCAA on Wednesday (Nov. 20) Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodon student-athletes have a four-class average (2017-18) of 89 percent in the Graduation Success Rate (GSR). It is the highest score for the 'Dons in 12 years.

The Mastodon men's basketball, men's volleyball, women's golf and women's volleyball teams each earned a perfect 100. It is the 14th consecutive perfect 100 for women's golf and the fifth straight 100 for men's volleyball and men's basketball. Women's soccer (95), softball (94), men's cross country/track and field (92) and men's golf (90) each recorded a score of 90 or better

10 programs improved or matched their GSR from last season.

Men's cross country/track and field's 92 is the best in the Horizon League.

The Mastodon men's basketball and women's volleyball teams were each one of five teams in the Horizon League to earn a perfect 100. Only four women's golf teams earned scores of 100. Men's basketball was only one of three programs in the state of Indiana to pick up a 100, joined by IU Indianapolis and Notre Dame.

In men's volleyball, just three Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association squads and 13 programs in the nation picked up a 100 score.

Softball's 94 and men's golf 90 placed third in the league.

Mastodon student-athletes had an impressive year in the classroom in 2023-24, posting a 3.33 cumulative GPA making it the 21-straight year with at least a 3.0 GPA.

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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