Miami Student-Athletes Boast Strong GSR Numbers
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – University of Miami student-athletes, posted a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 89 percent, according to figures released by the NCAA. The rate of success indicates that Miami is above the NCAA average of 83 percent for all institutions.
Miami has the 16th-best GSR rate among Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institutions.
The figures also indicate that the Miami men’s diving, women’s swimming and diving, women’s golf, rowing and volleyball teams all registered perfect graduation success rates.
“The University of Miami has always been committed to seeing our young men and women earn their degrees,” said Director of Athletics Blake James. “Our 89 percent graduation success rate is a reflection of the hard work put in by our student-athletes and by our academic support systems personnel and the emphasis that our coaches place on education.”
The men’s swimming and diving team’s perfect GSR score marked the 11th–consecutive year of 100 percent achievement. The Miami football and men’s basketball teams posted GSR scores of 83 and 93 percent, respectively – both of which rank above the national average. The football team’s 83 percent GSR rate ranks as the 23rd-best figure in FBS. In addition, the men’s basketball team’s record-setting GSR rate of 93 percent ranks as the 14th–best total among FBS institutions.
“We set a high standard for all of our student-athletes’ academic and athletic pursuits,” said David Wyman, Associate AD for Academic Services. “We are very proud of our graduation success rate and we will continue to strive for excellence. Academic excellence is a major priority to our staff here at the University of Miami.”
The most recent Division I Graduation Success Rates are based on the four entering classes from 2005-2006 through 2008-09. 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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