Miami Remains Strong with GSR Success
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – University of Miami student-athletes, boasted a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 92 percent, according to figures released by the NCAA. The rate of success indicates that Miami is above the NCAA average of 82 percent for all institutions.
Miami’s has the eighth-best GSR rate among Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institutions. The figures also indicate that the Miami baseball, men’s swimming and diving, women’s swimming and diving, women’s golf, rowing, women’s track and volleyball teams all registered perfect graduation success rates.
“The education of our student-athletes has been and always will be our No. 1 priority at the University of Miami,” said athletic director Blake James. “Our 92 percent department graduation success rate is a testament to the hard work put in by our student-athletes with the support of our coaches and staff.”
The men’s swimming and diving team’s perfect GSR score marked the 10th–consecutive year of 100 percent achievement. The Miami football and men’s basketball teams posted GSR scores of 86 and 85 percent, respectively – both of which rank above the national average.
“Academic excellence is a major priority to our staff here at the University of Miami,” said David Wyman, Associate AD for Academic Services. “We set a high standard for all of our student-athletes’ academic and athletic pursuits. We are very proud of our student-athletes’ Graduation Success Rate. We will continue to strive for excellence.”
The most recent Division I Graduation Success Rates are based on the four entering classes from 2004-2005 through 2007-08. More than 110,000 student-athletes are included in the most recent four classes using the GSR methodology, as compared to about 79,500 in the federal rate. The NCAA began compiling these figures with the entering freshmen class of 1995.
The NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) was developed in response to college and university presidents who wanted graduation data that more accurately reflect the mobility among college students today. Both rates improve on the federally mandated graduation rate by including students who were omitted from the federal calculation.
The GSR measures graduation rates at Division I institutions and includes students transferring into the institutions. The GSR also allows institutions to subtract student-athletes who leave their institutions prior to graduation as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete had they remained.
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