UMKC Student-Athletes Boast 84 Percent Graduation Success Rate
10/24/2013 6:41:00 PM | Academic Support
The NCAA released Division I Graduation Success Rates (GSR) on Thursday, and UMKC posted an 84 percent, besting the national average by two points. The national single-year Division I Graduation Success Rate for student-athletes is 82 percent. The national rate was an all-time high as well.
Five UMKC sports had rates above 90 percent including: Men's Basketball at 92 percent, Women's Basketball at 93 percent, Men's Tennis at 91 percent, Volleyball at 100 percent, and Women's Golf at 100 percent.
The NCAA's Graduation Success Rate includes transfer students and student-athletes who leave in good academic standing, unlike the Federal Rate, which does not count transfers. The GSR and Federal Graduation Rate calculations measure graduation over six years from initial college enrollment.
The GSR is the NCAA's more comprehensive calculation of student-athlete academic success. The NCAA rate is more accurate than the federally mandated methodology because it includes incoming transfers and students enrolling in the spring semester who receive athletic aid and graduate and deletes from the calculation student-athletes who leave an institution and were academically eligible to compete. The federal rate does neither.
Conversely, the APR, or Academic Progress Rate, is a year-by-year gauge of eligibility and retention for Division I scholarship student-athletes that was established in 2004. It is a composite team measurement based upon how individual team members do academically, and the NCAA APR threshold is 925, which is the equivalent of a 50-percent graduation rate.
This is the 23rd release of institutional graduation rates since national "right-to-know" legislation was passed in 1990. In 2005, the NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance implemented the initial release of the team GSR data.
