The NCAA released its Graduation Success Rate (GSR) measurements for student athletes, this week, and the University of Notre Dame is the clear NATIONAL CHAMPION!
19 of Notre Dame's 22 NCAA Division 1 athletic teams had a 100% graduation rate over the last six years. The only three sports that didn't have a perfect graduation rate over this period was football (96%), hockey (95%) and men's tennis at (93%).
The football team's GSR was #1 in the country and the hockey team's GSR was #2 in the country. Notre Dame's 19 for 22 in perfect graduation rates amongst it's sports teams (86.3%) also led the country. Here's the ranking of the seven schools in the country who had at least 50% of its athletic teams achieve "perfection" with their GSR:
#1: University of Notre Dame: 19/22 -- 86.3%
#2: Boston College: 19/25 -- 78%
#3: Wake Forest University: 10/14 -- 71.4%
#4: Stanford University: 19/27 -- 70.3%
#5: Duke University: 14/22 -- 63.6%
#6: Northwestern University: 10/19 -- 52.6%
#7: Rice University: 6/12 -- 50%
This marks the fifth time in the six years since the NCAA began this survey that the University of Notre Dame has had the highest percentage of athletic teams with a 100% graduation rate! Wouldn't it be nice if the national sports media reported on this! Have you seen ESPN cover this?
