Lehigh Ranks Amongst NCAA Leaders in Graduation Success Rate Information

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The NCAA introduced the most recent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) report information Wednesday afternoon in addition to Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) data for student-athletes who entered Lehigh within the 2018-2019 educational yr.  The information exhibits that Lehigh continues to graduate student-athletes at charges which are greater than the nationwide common. The FGR and the GSR report solely on student-athletes on our rosters that obtain athletically associated assist. The GSR differs from the FGR by discounting the reported inhabitants for these student-athletes that switch straight to a different greater training establishment and are in good educational standing. 

Lehigh’s GSR charges for student-athletes is 96 p.c, up 4 p.c from final yr. The four-year FGR stands at 91 p.c, which ranks second amongst Patriot League establishments. The six-year deadline for this class to finish their diploma was August 31, 2024.

Fourteen of Lehigh’s varsity sport applications earned an ideal one hundred pc GSR four-year commencement charge for the present report yr: baseball, males’s cross nation and monitor and area, males’s golf, males’s lacrosse, males’s soccer, males’s tennis, girls’s basketball, girls’s cross nation and monitor and area, girls’s rowing, area hockey, girls’s lacrosse, girls’s soccer, girls’s swimming and diving, and volleyball.

Seven varsity sport applications earned an ideal one hundred pc FGR four-year commencement charge for the present report yr:  baseball, males’s soccer, males’s tennis, girls’s basketball, girls’s cross nation and monitor and area, girls’s swimming and diving, and volleyball.

 

Lehigh sponsors 26 varsity sports activities on the Division I degree and is a constitution member of the Patriot League.