Eastern Michigan Athletics
EMU Earns NCAA Graduation Success Rate of 86 Percent
12/2/2021 2:00:00 PM | General, SASS
Five Eastern Michigan teams earned a perfect score
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YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) – A total of 86 percent of Eastern Michigan University student-athletes who enrolled as freshmen in 2014 graduated within a six-year window, according to the latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate released today, Dec. 2.
It marks the seventh straight year EMU has posted a GSR of 80-or-higher. The 86 average was one percentage point shy of tying the school's best mark of 87 set last year. The total is a 14-point jump from numbers released in 2010-11.
Women's golf, women's gymnastics, women's soccer, women's tennis and women's volleyball all posted perfect scores of 100. It was the 14th consecutive year gymnastics posted a perfect score. It was also the 11th-straight 100 for volleyball and the fifth in-a-row for golf.
Every Eastern Michigan program posted a mark above the national average for its sport. Furthermore, every program posted a GSR of 70-or-better.
"Academic success at Eastern Michigan is of the highest priority, and is a source of pride for our department," said EMU Vice President/Director of Athletics Scott Wetherbee. "Our student-athletes are committed to succeeding both in their sport and in the classroom. We are thankful for the support from the faculty, academic support staff, and our coaches, who are committed to guiding them to reach their academic goals."
GSR measures the success of an athletics department in graduating its student-athletes within a six-year period. Unlike Federal Graduation Rate, which assesses only first-time, full-time freshmen, GSR also includes transfer students and mid-year enrollees in the sample. Student-athletes who leave an institution while in good academic standing before exhausting athletics eligibility are removed from the cohort of their initial institution (essentially passed to another squad's GSR cohort if they transfer and removed altogether in the case of early departures for professional careers). The GSR provides a more complete and accurate look at actual student-athlete success by taking into account the full variety of participants in Division I athletics and tracking their academic outcomes.
The latest GSR cohort includes student-athletes that enrolled at EMU from 2011-14.
Graduation Success Rates for Eastern Michigan's women's programs continue to excel. All nine programs posted GSRs of 86 percent-or-better, with six boasting scores above 90 percent.
On the men's side, baseball topped the chart at 95 percent with basketball, golf, and cross country/track posting GSR figures of 84-or-better percent.
Among Mid-American Conference schools, Eastern Michigan was tied for first in six sport categories -- baseball, women's golf, gymnastics, soccer, tennis, and volleyball.
The GSR is also different from the Academic Progress Rate (APR), which is a measure of eligibility, retention, and graduation for continuing academic progress for current student-athletes on a term-by-term, year-by-year basis.
The federal graduation rate, while less inclusive than the GSR, provides the only measure of historic academic comparison between student-athletes and the general student body. Using this standard, EMU student-athletes outperformed their peers in the student body by 22 percent.
For more information on Graduation Success Rates, please visit www.ncaa.org.
YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) – A total of 86 percent of Eastern Michigan University student-athletes who enrolled as freshmen in 2014 graduated within a six-year window, according to the latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate released today, Dec. 2.
It marks the seventh straight year EMU has posted a GSR of 80-or-higher. The 86 average was one percentage point shy of tying the school's best mark of 87 set last year. The total is a 14-point jump from numbers released in 2010-11.
Women's golf, women's gymnastics, women's soccer, women's tennis and women's volleyball all posted perfect scores of 100. It was the 14th consecutive year gymnastics posted a perfect score. It was also the 11th-straight 100 for volleyball and the fifth in-a-row for golf.
Every Eastern Michigan program posted a mark above the national average for its sport. Furthermore, every program posted a GSR of 70-or-better.
"Academic success at Eastern Michigan is of the highest priority, and is a source of pride for our department," said EMU Vice President/Director of Athletics Scott Wetherbee. "Our student-athletes are committed to succeeding both in their sport and in the classroom. We are thankful for the support from the faculty, academic support staff, and our coaches, who are committed to guiding them to reach their academic goals."
GSR measures the success of an athletics department in graduating its student-athletes within a six-year period. Unlike Federal Graduation Rate, which assesses only first-time, full-time freshmen, GSR also includes transfer students and mid-year enrollees in the sample. Student-athletes who leave an institution while in good academic standing before exhausting athletics eligibility are removed from the cohort of their initial institution (essentially passed to another squad's GSR cohort if they transfer and removed altogether in the case of early departures for professional careers). The GSR provides a more complete and accurate look at actual student-athlete success by taking into account the full variety of participants in Division I athletics and tracking their academic outcomes.
The latest GSR cohort includes student-athletes that enrolled at EMU from 2011-14.
Graduation Success Rates for Eastern Michigan's women's programs continue to excel. All nine programs posted GSRs of 86 percent-or-better, with six boasting scores above 90 percent.
On the men's side, baseball topped the chart at 95 percent with basketball, golf, and cross country/track posting GSR figures of 84-or-better percent.
Among Mid-American Conference schools, Eastern Michigan was tied for first in six sport categories -- baseball, women's golf, gymnastics, soccer, tennis, and volleyball.
The GSR is also different from the Academic Progress Rate (APR), which is a measure of eligibility, retention, and graduation for continuing academic progress for current student-athletes on a term-by-term, year-by-year basis.
The federal graduation rate, while less inclusive than the GSR, provides the only measure of historic academic comparison between student-athletes and the general student body. Using this standard, EMU student-athletes outperformed their peers in the student body by 22 percent.
For more information on Graduation Success Rates, please visit www.ncaa.org.
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