At the end of the 2017-18 school year, 155 of Loyola’s student-athletes were named to the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Honor Roll. In 2016-17 only 122 athletes were named to the MVC Honor Roll — an improvement assistant athletic director for academics and student development Samantha Stewart said makes her proud.
Loyola prides itself on having a 2016-17 graduation success rate (GSR) of 99 percent, which was tied with five other universities, including Harvard University and Yale University, for first place among all NCAA schools. The 2017-18 GSR is scheduled to be released late fall.
GSR is a statistic that shows the percentage of student-athletes who earn a college degree, according to the NCAA website.