Western Michigan received the 2019-20 MAC Institutional Academic Award for the 2019-20 academic calendar year, the conference announced on Thursday.
376 WMU student-athletes across 16 league-sponsored sports combined to post a 3.317 cumulative grade-point average (GPA), the highest in the Mid-American Conference.
The honor is presented annually to the MAC school that posts the highest GPA for student-athletes across all of its sports.
“Our student-athletes have continued to perform as champions,” Western Michigan athletic director Kathy Beauregard said in the school's press release. “I am so proud of all our Broncos. I am not at all surprised by their classroom efforts.