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Climbing Higher: Syracuse Athletics Records Highest GSR in History

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Syracuse University Athletics continues to set records in academics. The NCAA announced 2018 Graduate Success Rates (GSR) today and Syracuse has its highest GSR in school history – 92%. The measurement reflects the entering freshman class in 2011-12 and graduated within six years. The NCAA started measuring the GSR, which also includes those who entered midyear, as well as student-athletes who transferred into the institution, in 2004.

"These results are really special," said Rick Burton, the David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management and Syracuse University's Faculty Athletics Representative to the ACC and NCAA. "It shows that Chancellor Syverud's vision of how our student-athletes can optimize the great academic opportunities at Syracuse is possible.