BOSTON – The Boston University Department of Athletics achieved an overall Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 94 percent or higher for the 11th consecutive year and eight varsity teams recorded a perfect 100 percent GSR, according to data released by the NCAA. It was the 18th straight cohort in which Terrier Athletics achieved a GSR of 93 percent or higher.  
 
Men's basketball, field hockey, women's golf, women's ice hockey, men's rowing, women's soccer, softball and women's tennis all earned perfect scores. Eight additional programs -- women's basketball, men's and women's track & field, men's and women's lacrosse, women's rowing, men's soccer and women's swimming & diving -- each had GSR scores of at least 93 percent.  
 
This year's overall GSR data represents an aggregate average of the incoming classes from 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17. The team scores reflect an aggregate average of that particular team's incoming students from the same time period.  
 
BU posted a 95 GSR and all 10 members of the Patriot League had a score of 91 or better. The NCAA Division I average GSR for this cohort was 90.   
 
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.