POINT CLEAR, Ala. — Appalachian State University athletics collected one of the Sun Belt Conference's most prestigious honors on Sunday evening when it was named a winner of the Sun Belt's 2017 Institutional Graduation Rate Award. Appalachian State and Louisiana were named co-winners of the award.
Appalachian State earned the 2017 Institutional Graduation Rate Award on the strength of its student-athletes owning the highest Federal Graduation Rate among all current Sun Belt members for the 2015-16 academic year. The graduation rates are calculated and published yearly by the NCAA in its Division I Graduation Rate Annual Report.