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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Samford University's athletics teams tied for the national lead in graduation success rate with a score of 99 in the NCAA's latest Graduation Success Rate (GSR) Report.
Samford tied for first nationally with Columbia, Dartmouth, Evansville, Harvard, Lafayette, College of the Holy Cross, Loyola-Chicago and Yale. The university has a long history of performing among the nation's elite universities for its combination of excellence in the academic and athletic performance, and has consistently earned an overall GSR above 90 percent since 2012.
The NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance implemented the initial release of the GSR in 2005 in order to more accurately assess the academic success of student-athletes. The most recent GSR measures how many student-athletes in the classes of 2010 through 2013 graduated within six years of their enrollment. Ten of Samford's teams earned perfect scores of 100 percent — baseball, men's basketball, men's golf, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's golf, softball, soccer, women's tennis and volleyball. Every Samford team was at or above the national average in the report, making Samford the only SoCon school to achieve that feat.
"We are extremely proud of our student-athletes for achieving such impressive scores," Samford's assistant director of Athletics for Academics Paige Mathis said. "The work that our student-athletes have put in in the classroom has been outstanding, and these scores prove how dedicated our student-athletes are to performing at the highest level, not only in competition, but in the classroom as well."
The NCAA developed the Division I Graduation Success Rate in response to college and university presidents who wanted graduation data that more accurately reflect the mobility among all college students today. The graduation-rate data are based on a six-year cohort prescribed by the U.S. Department of Education.
Samford competes in 17 NCAA Division I sports in the historic Southern Conference.
Samford tied for first nationally with Columbia, Dartmouth, Evansville, Harvard, Lafayette, College of the Holy Cross, Loyola-Chicago and Yale. The university has a long history of performing among the nation's elite universities for its combination of excellence in the academic and athletic performance, and has consistently earned an overall GSR above 90 percent since 2012.
The NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance implemented the initial release of the GSR in 2005 in order to more accurately assess the academic success of student-athletes. The most recent GSR measures how many student-athletes in the classes of 2010 through 2013 graduated within six years of their enrollment. Ten of Samford's teams earned perfect scores of 100 percent — baseball, men's basketball, men's golf, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's golf, softball, soccer, women's tennis and volleyball. Every Samford team was at or above the national average in the report, making Samford the only SoCon school to achieve that feat.
"We are extremely proud of our student-athletes for achieving such impressive scores," Samford's assistant director of Athletics for Academics Paige Mathis said. "The work that our student-athletes have put in in the classroom has been outstanding, and these scores prove how dedicated our student-athletes are to performing at the highest level, not only in competition, but in the classroom as well."
The NCAA developed the Division I Graduation Success Rate in response to college and university presidents who wanted graduation data that more accurately reflect the mobility among all college students today. The graduation-rate data are based on a six-year cohort prescribed by the U.S. Department of Education.
Samford competes in 17 NCAA Division I sports in the historic Southern Conference.
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