Harvard recorded a 99 percent GSR for student-athletes who enrolled at the institution in 2010. (Harvard Athletics)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University's student-athlete graduation rates ranked among the best in the nation – one of six schools to achieve a 99 GSR score - as the NCAA released its 2017 Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and Federal Graduation Rate (reports) for all NCAA Division institutions. In addition, 26 Harvard varsity athletic programs earned perfect GSR scores of 100 percent.
The NCAA's GSR measures student-athlete graduation rates over a six-year period from the first year of enrollment. The NCAA's Graduation Success Rate includes transfer students and student-athletes who leave in good academic standing. This year's GSR report is based on student-athletes who enrolled at NCAA Division I institutions from 2007-10.
Harvard recorded a 99 percent GSR for student-athletes who enrolled at the institution in 2010, joining Columbia, Dartmouth, Gonzaga, Loyola University (Chicago) and Yale the six Division I schools in the nation to boast a score of 99 in the GSR report.
Harvard's 26 varsity athletic programs with a 100 percent four-year Graduation Success Rate in the 2017 report are: baseball, women's basketball, women's heavyweight crew, women's cross country/track and field, men's fencing, women's fencing, field hockey, football, men's golf, women's golf, men's ice hockey, women's ice hockey, men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, men's skiing, women's skiing, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's swimming and diving, women's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's tennis, men's volleyball, women's volleyball, men's water polo, and women's water polo.
All eight Ivy League institutions scored 96 or better for student-athletes who enrolled in 2010, with Harvard one of four schools in the Ancient Eight to record a score of 99. Harvard led with a score of 99, along with Dartmouth, Columbia and Yale. Princeton recorded a 98, followed by Brown and Penn, which had a 97 and Cornell which graduated 96 percent of its student-athletes.
The most recent one-year GSR for the entire 2010 NCAA class is 87 percent, matching the highest rate ever from a year ago.
Each spring, the NCAA also releases a separate set of data, the Academic Progress Rate (APR), which measures both academic performance and retention. Each athletic program receives an APR score, with teams falling under a certain threshold subject to penalties such as loss of scholarships and postseason bans. The top 10 percent in each sport receive APR Public Recognition Awards from the NCAA.
