Thirteen BU Teams Receive Perfect GSR Scores
October 17, 2019 | General, Student-Athlete Academic Support Service
BOSTON - For the seventh consecutive year, the Boston University Department of Athletics achieved an overall Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 94 percent or higher and had a department-record 13 varsity teams record a perfect 100 percent GSR, according to data released by the NCAA. It was the 14th straight cohort in which Terrier Athletics achieved a GSR of 93 percent or higher.
Men's and women's soccer, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track & field, men's basketball, women's golf, women's ice hockey, women's lacrosse, women's rowing, men's swimming & diving and softball all earned perfect scores. Three additional programs -- women's basketball, men's rowing, and women's swimming & diving -- each had GSR scores of at least 91 percent.
This year's overall GSR data represents an aggregate average of the incoming classes from 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. The team scores reflect an aggregate average of that particular team's incoming students from the same time period.
GSR scores were reported for 23 of BU's 24 athletic programs. Cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field are compiled as one sport per gender. Women's lightweight rowing will have its first full team score released next year along with men's lacrosse, who had two transfers count for the previous cohort despite the inaugural season occurring in 2013-14.
The Terriers, who posted an overall GSR of 96, were tied for ninth among Division I-AAA members and tied for 25th overall in Divsion I. Within the Patriot League, all 10 members posted a score of 90 or better to finish above the NCAA Division I average of 89.
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.
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.
