Indianapolis, Ind. --- According to the NCAA official federal graduation rate data released on Wednesday, Lobo student-athletes set new all-time records for both graduation and graduation success rates. New Mexico athletics graduated 66% of all student-athletes who enrolled as freshmen during the 2008-09 academic year, improving on the 55% achieved last year and besting the previous all-time high of 61% achieved in 2011. The school also scored a 79% Graduation Success Rate which beat the program's previous high of 76%, achieved in both 2010 and 2014.
The 66% single-year high was 18 points higher than the university's graduation rate as a whole, which was 48%.