Colgate Earns 97 Percent Graduation Success Rate

14 Teams Record Perfect Scores; Raiders Once Again Among Nation’s Best

NCAA Report
Patriot League Release

HAMILTON – Colgate University student-athletes once again ranked among the nation's best in graduation success rate (GSR) according to the latest data released by the NCAA on Thursday.

Colgate's 97 percent GSR ranks alongside contemporaries such as Northeastern, Notre Dame, and Vanderbilt. The University was one of 30 institutions with a GSR score of 97 percent or better.

The GSR data shows the percentage of student-athletes receiving athletics aid and earning a degree within six years of entering college. The GSR formula removes from the rate student-athletes who leave school while academically eligible and includes student-athletes who transfer to a school after initially enrolling elsewhere.

This year's data is for the class of student-athletes who entered Colgate in 2014-15.

14 Perfect GSR Scores
Colgate's 14 teams scoring perfect 100 percent rates included women's basketball, women's cross country and track, women's rowing, field hockey, women's ice hockey, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, women's tennis, volleyball, men's golf, men's ice hockey, men's soccer, men's swimming & diving, and men's tennis.

Each of Colgate's 21 NCAA-sponsored programs recorded a GSR score of 90 percent or better. For the purposes of this release, cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field are considered one sport instead of three.

"These metrics help to tell part of the story of the incredible scholar-athletes of Colgate," Colgate's Vice President and Director of Athletics, Dr. Nicki Moore said. "They are also a meaningful indicator of a successful collaborative effort across many years among our coaches, admission colleagues, faculty, and support staff. I hope that in addition to the scholar-athletes who ultimately achieved these excellent outcomes, that the many caring and committed colleagues across Colgate who recruited and supported them throughout their experience here can feel a great sense of pride and accomplishment with this announcement. Though we have come to expect such great outcomes, we should be careful to celebrate each one, because each is truly an important collective accomplishment."

The Division I Board of Directors created the GSR in response to Division I college and university presidents who wanted data that more accurately reflected the mobility of college students than is evident in the federal graduation rate. The federal rate counts any student who leaves a school as an academic failure, no matter whether he or she enrolls at another school. The GSR formula removes from the rate student-athletes who leave school while academically eligible and includes student-athletes who transfer to a school after initially enrolling elsewhere. This calculation makes it a more complete and accurate look at student-athlete success. The federal graduation rate, however, remains the only measure to compare student-athletes with the general student body.

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