Five BC Programs Earn Perfect APR Scores

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Five Boston College teams earned a perfect score of 1,000 on the latest multi-year academic progress rate (APR) data released today by the NCAA. The scores include data from the 2015-16 through the 2018-19 academic years.

Men's cross country, women's lacrosse, women's skiing, women's swimming & diving, and women's tennis all earned perfect multi-year APR scores. These five teams, as well as the Eagles' football program, were honored a week ago by the NCAA as part of its Public Recognition Awards campaign.

Nationally, NCAA Division I teams earned an overall Academic Progress Rate of 983 for the third consecutive year. The multiyear rates for baseball, football, men's basketball and women's basketball were consistent or moved by a single point. Baseball was up one point to 977, football stayed at 964, men's basketball dropped one to 966 and women's basketball increased one to 983.

For the first time, a portion of NCAA revenue is being distributed this year to members based on the academic achievement of student-athletes, including APR scores.

Each school can earn one academic achievement unit per year if its student-athletes meet at least one of the following requirements:
Earn an overall single-year all-sport Academic Progress Rate of 985 or higher.
Earn an overall all-sport Graduation Success Rate of 90% or higher.
Earn a federal graduation rate that is at least 13 percentage points higher than the federal graduation rate of the student body at that school.

As requested by the Division I Board of Directors, the NCAA will not publicize which schools received the unit. Dollar figures were impacted by the cancellation of the 2020 Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric in which scholarship student-athletes earn 1 point each term for remaining eligible and 1 point for staying in school or graduating. Schools that don't offer scholarships track their recruited student-athletes.

Every Division I sports team submits data to have its Academic Progress Rate calculated each academic year. The NCAA reports both single-year and four-year rates, on which penalties for poor academic performance are based. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable, member-provided data.

APRs for each team, lists of teams receiving public recognition and those receiving sanctions are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.

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