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Long Beach State Continues To Show Classroom Success Through Academic Progress Rate
6/14/2022 10:40:00 AM | General
All sports met the minimum standard for the 16th straight year.
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The NCAA released publicly the Academic Progress Rate data for the four-year period ending in 2020-21 Tuesday, and Long Beach State continued its unblemished streak of exceeding the minimum standard as the program returned after a one-year hiatus due to COVID-19.
Long Beach State remains the only school in the California State University system to have passed the minimum standard in all sports since the initiation of the four-year standard by the NCAA, now 16 in a row.
Two programs had perfect APR scores of 1,000 in Women's Golf and Beach Volleyball, while Men's Golf, Men's Cross Country and Women's Water Polo all had scores of 990 or higher.
The APR was developed by the NCAA in 2004 to measure the academic progress and performance of athletic programs at its member institutions. The APR is determined by using the eligibility and retention for each student-athlete on scholarship during a particular academic year. Student-athletes are awarded one point for each semester they are enrolled and one point for each semester they are eligible for intercollegiate competition. A student-athlete can earn a maximum of two points per semester and a maximum of four points during an academic year.
The APR is calculated by taking the number of possible points for a particular sport and dividing that number by the total number of points earned from student-athlete retention and eligibility over the same period of time. The percentage is then multiplied by 1,000 to get the actual APR.
The NCAA does not penalize an institution for student-athletes who remain academically eligible but did not return to the institution due to circumstances beyond the student and/or institution's control. Examples of this include student-athletes who leave to pursue professional athletics, suffer from incapacitating physical or mental illness, or experience extreme financial difficulties as the result of a specific event such as a death in the family.
Complete information on the 2020-21 APR Report can be found at the NCAA's website, NCAA.org.
Long Beach State's Academic Progress Rate Scores (2017-18 to 2020-21)
Women's Basketball – 968
Beach Volleyball – 1000
Women's Cross Country – 983
Women's Golf – 1000
Women's Soccer – 978
Women's Tennis – 975
Women's Track & Field – 968
Women's Volleyball – 979
Women's Water Polo – 990
Softball - 976
Baseball – 943
Men's Basketball – 935
Men's Cross Country – 993
Men's Golf – 991
Men's Track & Field – 954
Men's Volleyball – 985
Men's Water Polo – 981
Long Beach State remains the only school in the California State University system to have passed the minimum standard in all sports since the initiation of the four-year standard by the NCAA, now 16 in a row.
Two programs had perfect APR scores of 1,000 in Women's Golf and Beach Volleyball, while Men's Golf, Men's Cross Country and Women's Water Polo all had scores of 990 or higher.
The APR was developed by the NCAA in 2004 to measure the academic progress and performance of athletic programs at its member institutions. The APR is determined by using the eligibility and retention for each student-athlete on scholarship during a particular academic year. Student-athletes are awarded one point for each semester they are enrolled and one point for each semester they are eligible for intercollegiate competition. A student-athlete can earn a maximum of two points per semester and a maximum of four points during an academic year.
The APR is calculated by taking the number of possible points for a particular sport and dividing that number by the total number of points earned from student-athlete retention and eligibility over the same period of time. The percentage is then multiplied by 1,000 to get the actual APR.
The NCAA does not penalize an institution for student-athletes who remain academically eligible but did not return to the institution due to circumstances beyond the student and/or institution's control. Examples of this include student-athletes who leave to pursue professional athletics, suffer from incapacitating physical or mental illness, or experience extreme financial difficulties as the result of a specific event such as a death in the family.
Complete information on the 2020-21 APR Report can be found at the NCAA's website, NCAA.org.
Long Beach State's Academic Progress Rate Scores (2017-18 to 2020-21)
Women's Basketball – 968
Beach Volleyball – 1000
Women's Cross Country – 983
Women's Golf – 1000
Women's Soccer – 978
Women's Tennis – 975
Women's Track & Field – 968
Women's Volleyball – 979
Women's Water Polo – 990
Softball - 976
Baseball – 943
Men's Basketball – 935
Men's Cross Country – 993
Men's Golf – 991
Men's Track & Field – 954
Men's Volleyball – 985
Men's Water Polo – 981
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