As the NCAA’s annual graduation success rate (GSR) results were released Wednesday, UConn recorded its highest GSR in school history. Across all sports, UConn varsity athletic programs posted a GSR of 89, two percent higher than the national average of 87 percent.
Graduation success rate is designed to track graduation of student-athletes over a six-year span and to factor in transfers leaving and coming into the program. With GSR, transfers that leave the program in good academic standing do not negatively impact the school’s rating. The rate is a rolling average over four years, so student-athletes from 2007-10 are included in the calculation.