Nine BU Programs Earn NCAA APR Public Recognition Awards
May 9, 2025 | General
BOSTON - Nine Boston University athletic programs have earned Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) Public Recognition Awards for the most recent cohort, as announced by the NCAA.
Men's and women's basketball, women's cross country, field hockey, women's golf, women's ice hockey, men's swimming & diving and men's and women's tennis all were among the top 10 percent in their sport to earn the award. Of that group, eight posted perfect scores of 1000. Sixteen of BU's 20 NCAA programs had an APR of 990 or higher. This data reflects the entire four-year cohort ending with the 2023-24 academic year.
The Patriot League member schools continued their excellence in the classroom with more than 92 percent of the conference's teams - a four-percent increase from last year - posting an APR score at or above the national average of 984. In the latest release of data by the NCAA, the Patriot League is first in APR (996), tied for first in retention (996) and second in eligibility trends (996).
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 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 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.
Men's and women's basketball, women's cross country, field hockey, women's golf, women's ice hockey, men's swimming & diving and men's and women's tennis all were among the top 10 percent in their sport to earn the award. Of that group, eight posted perfect scores of 1000. Sixteen of BU's 20 NCAA programs had an APR of 990 or higher. This data reflects the entire four-year cohort ending with the 2023-24 academic year.
The Patriot League member schools continued their excellence in the classroom with more than 92 percent of the conference's teams - a four-percent increase from last year - posting an APR score at or above the national average of 984. In the latest release of data by the NCAA, the Patriot League is first in APR (996), tied for first in retention (996) and second in eligibility trends (996).
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 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 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.
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