Eleven Terrier Teams Earn Perfect GSR Scores
November 15, 2016 | General, Men's Basketball, Men's Cross Country, Men's Tennis, Men's Track & Field, Softball, Women's Basketball, Women's Golf, Women's Ice Hockey, Women's Lacrosse, Women's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Men's Rowing, Student-Athlete Academic Support Services
BOSTON - For the fourth consecutive year, the Boston University Department of Athletics achieved an overall Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 95 percent and had 11 varsity teams record a perfect 100 percent GSR, according to data released by the NCAA. It was the 11th straight cohort in which Terrier Athletics achieved a GSR of 93 percent or higher.
Men's and women's basketball, men's and women's tennis, women's golf, women's ice hockey, women's lacrosse, men's rowing, women's soccer, softball and men's track & field all earned perfect scores. Three additional programs -- men's soccer, women's swimming & diving and women's track & field -- each had GSR scores of at least 91 percent.
This year's overall GSR data represents an aggregate average of the incoming classes from 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10. The team scores reflect an aggregate average of that particular team's incoming students from the same time period.
GSR scores were reported for 22 of BU's 24 athletic programs. Cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field are compiled as one sport per gender. Women's lightweight rowing completed its first season as a varsity sport in 2012-13, and men's lacrosse is gearing up for its fourth season at the varsity level.
The Terriers were tied for eighth among Division I-AAA members and were only one of 22 Division I schools to have perfect scores in both men's and women's basketball. Within the Patriot League, BU finished tied for fifth with American and Bucknell, as all 10 members posted a score of 90 or better.
The GSR was developed to provide graduation data of student-athletes who receive athletics aid at Division I institutions more accurately than the federal rates that had been calculated based solely on freshmen matriculation. It includes in its calculation students who transfer into institutions, and subtracts those who leave their institutions prior to graduation as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete had they remained. The GSR credits a school for students who graduate within six years of entering their institution.
A GSR is compiled only for athletic departments, and not for entire student bodies. The federal graduation rate allows for a four-year window and neither includes those who transfer in nor excludes those who transfer out. Per the federal graduation rate during the same cohort, 85 percent of the general Boston University student body graduated from BU, whereas 81 percent of all Terrier student-athletes earned their BU degrees.
More information about the GSR report is available at the NCAA's official website, www.ncaa.org. Additional information about BU Athletics is available at the official website for the Department of Athletics, GoTerriers.com.
