NCAA & UConn Athletics Announce Annual Graduation Success Fee Report

STORRS, Conn. – Ten University of Connecticut athletics groups posted excellent Graduation Success Rates (GSR), and a complete of 15 squads carried out at 90 % or larger, as introduced by the NCAA on Wednesday, November 19. UConn noticed a rise of the overall groups with scores above 90 % enhance from 13 to fifteen for this 12 months’s cohort.

“We are incredibly proud of the achievements by our student-athletes in the classroom,” commented Director of Athletics David Benedict. “These numbers reflect the hard work of our student-athletes, the dedication of our coaching staffs, and the outstanding support from our academic services team. At UConn, we believe that success is measured both on the field of competition and in the classroom, and these results show that our student-athletes are excelling in both areas.”

Teams that earned a GSR rating of 100% included males’s golf, ladies’s basketball, ladies’s rowing, ladies’s lacrosse, ladies’s soccer, softball, ladies’s swimming and diving, and ladies’s tennis.

The GSR information reveals the share of student-athletes incomes a level inside six years of coming into faculty. The NCAA developed the GSR to account for student-athletes not tracked by the federal commencement price, which incorporates transfers into UConn and student-athletes who transferred from UConn in good educational standing. This 12 months’s GSR numbers are based mostly on coming into lessons from 2015 to 2018.

UConn had an general GSR rating of 91 %, holding the Huskies at over 90 % for the seventh-straight 12 months.