BOSTON - Five Boston University athletic programs have earned perfect Division I Academic Progress Rates (APR) for the most recent cohort, as announced by the NCAA on Tuesday. 
 
The BU women's cross country, women's basketball, women's golf, women's ice hockey and women's tennis teams all recorded an APR of 1000. Seventeen of BU's 20 NCAA programs had an APR of 985 or higher. This data reflects the entire four-year cohort ending with the 2021-22 academic year.  

The Patriot League member schools continued their excellence in the classroom with more than 86 percent of the conference's teams posting an Academic Progress Rate (APR) score at or above the national average of 984. The Patriot League continues to among the best 32 NCAA Division I conferences in retention data, finishing second in both APR and eligibility trends. 
 
The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric where scholarship student-athletes earn one point each term for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. For schools that do not offer scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked. Every Division I program across the nation calculates its APR each academic year, similar to a report card. The most recent APR scores are multi-year rates based on the scores from the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable data at the time of analysis.
 
For more information, visit the NCAA APR release. To view the data by conference, school, sport and year visit the NCAA APR Searchable Database.