Colorado State University Athletics
CSU student-athletes perform well in NCAA Graduation Success Rate data
11/15/2018 2:23:00 PM | General
Most recent data released by NCAA shows highest single-year rate for CSU student-athletes, 85%
FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Colorado State University student-athletes continue to graduate at a high rate, and better than nearly all of their Mountain West conference peers, according to Graduation Success Rate (GSR) data released this week by the NCAA.
CSU student-athletes matched the program's highest single-year graduation rate for the most recent cohort of students—those who entered the university in 2011—since the NCAA began compiling GSR data in 1998. CSU's single-year GSR of 85 percent ranked third in the Mountain West.
In all, 11 of Colorado State's 16 sport programs exceeded the national average for their respective GSR scores.
Five Colorado State athletics programs achieved a perfect GSR of 100: men's golf, women's golf, women's soccer, women's tennis and women's volleyball. Women's golf has posted a perfect 100 GSR score for each of the last 11 years, while women's tennis has posted five in a row and volleyball and men's golf have done so for three consecutive years.
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 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. Also, the federal rate does not recognize students who enter school as transfer students.
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.