Hofstra Shines In Latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate Report

[EvanJ]

https://gohofstra.com/news/2024/12/4/ba ... eport.aspx is titled "Hofstra Shines In Latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate Report." It links to https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/11/20/me ... level.aspx which is titled "NCAA Graduation Rates." The NCAA's graduation success rate (GSR) was 91 percent, which is a big increase from 74 percent in 2002, which was the first year it was measured. Hofstra tied Northeastern for the best in the CAA at 97 percent. The two most popular sports, Football and Men's Basketball, have NCAA-wide GSRs below the average for all sports. The NCAA's article does not mention the athletes who go pro where it is impossible to know if they could have graduated if they wanted to. The NCAA's article also does not say how many total athletes there are, but it links to https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/resear ... Trends.pdf which says 2024 had the most student-athletes graduate of any even year since 2002. The sports with the highest GSRs are not played by many schools. The only sport at 100 percent was Women's Skiing, and the top male sport was Gymnastics at 96 percent, which was the only male sport at at least 95 percent. Women had Skiing (100), Gymnastics (99), Fencing (98), Lacrosse (98), Field Hockey (97), Ice Hockey (97), Swimming (97), Tennis (97), Bowling (96), Golf (96), Rowing (96), Soccer (96), and Volleyball (95) make 13 of their 17 sports be at at least 95 percent.