Boston College Athletics
Eagles Among Nation's Elite in Graduation Success Rate
October 14, 2008 | Boston College Athletics
Oct. 14, 2008
Boston College's Graduation Success Rate of 96 for all student-athletes is among the top nine in the country among Division I (FBS) institutions, according to data released by the NCAA today. In addition, the BC football team's GSR score of 92 is tied with Duke as best in the Atlantic Coast Conference and fourth-best in all of Division I college football, and a school-record 18 Eagles teams achieved a perfect GSR score of 100. Nationally, the average GSR score was 78.
"We are very proud of this remarkable accomplishment," Director of Athletics Gene DeFilippo says. "We take the term `student-athlete' very seriously at Boston College."
The BC teams that received a perfect 100 score were baseball, men's cross country/track, men's fencing, men's and women's golf, men's and women's skiing, men's and women's swimming, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's rowing, women's ice hockey, men's and women's sailing, women's lacrosse, softball and volleyball.
In football, Navy led all GSR scores with 95, followed by Notre Dame (94), Stanford (93), Boston College and Duke.
The NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) was developed in response to college and university presidents who wanted graduation data that more accurately reflect the mobility among college students today. The GSR measures graduation rates at Division I institutions and includes students transferring into the institutions. The GSR also allows institutions to subtract student-athletes who leave their institutions prior to graduation as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete had they remained. The most recent data released measured student-athletes who entered school in 2001-02.
More information about the GSR report may be found at the NCAA's website, www.ncaa.org.
