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Duke Earns 97 Percent Graduation Success Rate
10/25/2011 2:42:00 PM | Athletics
DURHAM, N.C. - Statistics for the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) released Tuesday by the NCAA indicated that ninety-seven percent of freshmen student-athletes receiving scholarship aid or recruited individuals participating in programs that do not offer athletic aid graduated from Duke within six years. The GSR is based on student-athletes who entered college as freshmen in 2001-2004 and allows for the removal of those individuals from the cohort who left Duke in good academic standing.
A total of 13 Duke teams achieved a 100 percent GSR: men's basketball, men's golf, men's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's cross country/track and field, women's fencing, field hockey, women's golf, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, women's tennis and volleyball.
Duke's remaining nine programs - baseball (95), men's cross country/track & field (93), men's fencing (93), football (93), men's lacrosse (96), men's soccer (93), wrestling (97), rowing (96) and women's swimming and diving (97) - all achieved a GSR of 93 percent of better. For the second time in the past three years, all 22 sports posted a GSR of 90 percent or better.
Additionally, 11 of Duke's sports have secured a perfect GSR of 100 percent in all seven years since the inception of the rating: men's golf, men's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's fencing, field hockey, women's golf, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, women's tennis, women's cross country/track and field and volleyball.
Duke's 97 percent Graduation Success Rate is tops in the ACC, equaled by Boston College (97) and followed by Wake Forest (94), Virginia Tech (91), Miami (89), North Carolina (88), Virginia (87), Clemson (82), Maryland (82), Florida State (79), Georgia Tech (77) and N.C. State (74).
The 93 percent rate posted by Duke's football team was tied for the third-highest among Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools with only six programs earning a mark of 90 or better (Notre Dame - 97, Northwestern - 94, Duke - 93, Rice - 93, Boston College - 93 and Navy - 91).
In addition, the Federal Graduation Rates were released on Tuesday, and Duke's four-year class (2001-2004) average was 85 percent. The Federal Graduation Rate does not allow for the removal of those individuals from the cohort who left Duke in good academic standing, and only includes scholarship student-athletes.
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