Owls Continue to Rank Among the NCAA's Best
11/17/2022 10:00:00 AM | Baseball, General, Men's Cross Country, Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country, Women's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Women's Volleyball
Graduation Success Date Released
The NCAA released its latest data on the graduation success of its member institutions on Tuesday and Rice student-athletes can once again be found at the top of the rankings. The newest tabulations reflect graduation numbers among student-athletes who entered school in 2015.
Rice women student-athletes ranked third in the nation in the Federal Graduation Rate among schools at the FBS level, graduating 91% of its participants, five percentage points behind Stanford and six percentage points behind Northwestern. Rice also posted the fourth-highest federal rate among African-American students (79%) for the third consecutive year while its entire student-athlete population ranked fifth (83%). Rice ranked second among FBS football programs with a Fed Rate of 91%.
Baseball, women's basketball, men's and women's cross country/track, soccer, women's tennis, and volleyball each graduated all of their student-athletes in the NCAA's GSR tabulations, which reflect the six-year graduation rates for college athletes who entered school in 2015.
The Federal Graduation Rate remains the only measure comparing student-athletes with the general student body. Rice's student-athletes ranked fifth nationally in the latest data (in a three-way tie with Cal – Berkeley and the University of Michigan), while the student body ranked second in a four-way tie with Northwestern, Stanford, and Duke.
Federal rates also provide a long-term picture of student-athlete academic achievement. The federal rate was first collected with the class that entered college in 1984, and the rate has continued to rise over the past 30 years. When rates were first collected, the general student body earned degrees at a rate higher than that of student-athletes.
The Division I Board of Directors created the GSR in 2002 in response to Division I college and university presidents who wanted data that more accurately reflected the mobility of college students than the federal graduation rate did. The federal rate counts as an academic failure for any student who leaves a school, no matter whether he or she enrolls at another school. Also, the federal rate does not recognize students who enter school as transfer students.
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. This calculation provides a more accurate look at student-athlete success.
Rice women student-athletes ranked third in the nation in the Federal Graduation Rate among schools at the FBS level, graduating 91% of its participants, five percentage points behind Stanford and six percentage points behind Northwestern. Rice also posted the fourth-highest federal rate among African-American students (79%) for the third consecutive year while its entire student-athlete population ranked fifth (83%). Rice ranked second among FBS football programs with a Fed Rate of 91%.
Baseball, women's basketball, men's and women's cross country/track, soccer, women's tennis, and volleyball each graduated all of their student-athletes in the NCAA's GSR tabulations, which reflect the six-year graduation rates for college athletes who entered school in 2015.
The Federal Graduation Rate remains the only measure comparing student-athletes with the general student body. Rice's student-athletes ranked fifth nationally in the latest data (in a three-way tie with Cal – Berkeley and the University of Michigan), while the student body ranked second in a four-way tie with Northwestern, Stanford, and Duke.
Federal rates also provide a long-term picture of student-athlete academic achievement. The federal rate was first collected with the class that entered college in 1984, and the rate has continued to rise over the past 30 years. When rates were first collected, the general student body earned degrees at a rate higher than that of student-athletes.
The Division I Board of Directors created the GSR in 2002 in response to Division I college and university presidents who wanted data that more accurately reflected the mobility of college students than the federal graduation rate did. The federal rate counts as an academic failure for any student who leaves a school, no matter whether he or she enrolls at another school. Also, the federal rate does not recognize students who enter school as transfer students.
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. This calculation provides a more accurate look at student-athlete success.
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