Syracuse Continues to Soar Above National GSR Common

Syracuse University continues to display its dedication to tutorial excellence amongst student-athletes, reaching a exceptional 92 p.c Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for the 2018 cohort.

Syracuse continues to tempo forward of the nationwide common, which sits at 90 p.c.

“Our student-athletes continue to excel in both competition and the classroom at Syracuse University,” mentioned Katie Scanlon, Director of Student-Athlete Success and Engagement. “Our continued success showcases the commitment of our student-athletes and staff in prioritizing education, while competing at the highest levels.”

A quantity if groups earned good GSRs on this 12 months’s report, together with: ladies’s basketball, discipline hockey, males’s monitor & discipline and cross nation, males’s lacrosse, ladies’s lacrosse, males’s soccer, ladies’s soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. All however two groups got here in forward of the nationwide common.

Syracuse University’s long-standing emphasis on student-athlete success is obvious in its constant enchancment in GSR over time, reflecting a tradition of educational assist and institutional pleasure. 

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began measuring GSR, which incorporates those that entered midyear, in addition to student-athletes who transferred into the establishment, in 2004.

Syracuse GSR Facts & Figures of Note

• Women’s tennis and girls’s volleyball packages achieved an ideal 100% for the 14th consecutive 12 months, the longest lively streaks within the athletics division.
• The volleyball program has 16 good GSR scores in 21 years of the metric, which is essentially the most of any program at Syracuse.
• The Orange males’s cross nation and males’s monitor & discipline groups have scored an ideal 100% for 12 years in a row and the 14th time within the 21 years.
• The males’s lacrosse workforce has an eight-year streak of good scores.
• The ladies’s basketball workforce has posted an ideal rating in every of the final seven years.
• Men’s and girls’s soccer have a six-year good rating streak.
• The ladies’s soccer program has produced 13 good GSR scores.

The NCAA instituted the GSR to extra precisely mirror the mobility of school college students as in comparison with the Federal Graduation Rate. The Graduation Success Rate takes under consideration college students who begin faculty in a spring semester, college students who switch into Syracuse from one other establishment, and offers credit score for college kids who switch to a different 4 12 months establishment in good standing. The federal fee doesn’t account for these people. Thus GSR components offers a extra full and correct image by contemplating all scholar athletes who attend Syracuse University.