MAAC Athletes Excel Academically
MAAC Sports
Edison, N.J. - According to a recent NCAA release, more college athletes continue to graduate at the highest levels since the NCAA began calculating the rate nine years ago. Key findings from the MAAC Graduation Success Rate (GSR) date include the following:
• 21 of 23 MAAC sports exceeded the NCAA Division I average graduation success rate.
• Eighty-five teams had a perfect graduation rate of 100 percent, an increase from last year's total of 76.
• MAAC men's basketball players graduated 15.7 percentage points higher than the NCAA Division I average, while women's basketball players were 11.1 percent higher than the NCAA average.
• The Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team posted a 100 percent graduation rate while five of the MAAC's women's basketball programs achieved perfect graduation scores of 100 percent.
• Softball has the highest average graduation rate (98.7%) amongst all MAAC sports, followed by women's water polo at 98.6 percent and women's swimming & diving at 96.70 percent.
The GSR is a freshman-cohort rate which indicates the percentage of freshmen who entered during a given academic year and graduated within six years. Added to the freshmen are those students who entered midyear, as well as student-athletes who transferred into an institution. In addition, the GSR subtracts students from entering the cohort who are considered allowable exclusions (those who either die or become permanently disabled, those who leave school to join the armed forces, foreign services or attend a church mission), as well as those who would have been academically eligible to compete had they returned to the institution.
Click here for the full NCAA press release.