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Long Beach State Athletics Continues To Set Strong Standard In Graduation Success Rate
12/6/2023 12:44:00 PM | General
Long Beach State was among the leaders in the Big West and has set a GSR higher than 85% for the last seven years.
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The NCAA announced new data for the Graduation Success Rate (GSR), a standard that measures progress towards graduation for student-athletes by institution. Long Beach State continues to excel in this metric, and recorded an overall mark of 87 as released by the NCAA on Wednesday.
NCAA Annnouncement
Long Beach State's score of 87 was bolstered by five programs that had perfect scores of 100, as Men's Golf, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis, Women's Volleyball and Women's Water Polo all continued to set the bar high for the Beach.
Among public universities in California, Long Beach State's remained among the best along side schools such as UC Berkeley and UCLA. Among its Big West peers, the Beach was within four points of league leader UC Davis and trailed only Cal Poly inside of the CSU system.
The GSR tracks student-athletes for six years after entering college, and does not penalize a school for a student who transfers while in good academic standing. This is especially important for a school like Long Beach State, which saw a 26 percent difference between the Graduation Success Rate and the Federal Graduation Rate within athletics as transfers become more common within collegiate athletics.
The Division I Board of Directors created the GSR in response to Division I college and university presidents who wanted data that more accurately reflected the mobility of college students than the federal graduation rate. The federal rate counts any student who leaves a school as an academic failure, no matter whether he or she enrolls at another school. Also, the federal rate does not recognize students who enter school as transfer students.
The GSR formula removes from the rate student-athletes who leave school while academically eligible and includes student-athletes who transfer to a school after initially enrolling elsewhere. This calculation makes it a more complete and accurate look at student-athlete success.
The rate also allows for a deeper understanding of graduation success in individual sports than the federal metric, which provides only broad groupings.
NCAA Annnouncement
Long Beach State's score of 87 was bolstered by five programs that had perfect scores of 100, as Men's Golf, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis, Women's Volleyball and Women's Water Polo all continued to set the bar high for the Beach.
Among public universities in California, Long Beach State's remained among the best along side schools such as UC Berkeley and UCLA. Among its Big West peers, the Beach was within four points of league leader UC Davis and trailed only Cal Poly inside of the CSU system.
The GSR tracks student-athletes for six years after entering college, and does not penalize a school for a student who transfers while in good academic standing. This is especially important for a school like Long Beach State, which saw a 26 percent difference between the Graduation Success Rate and the Federal Graduation Rate within athletics as transfers become more common within collegiate athletics.
The Division I Board of Directors created the GSR in response to Division I college and university presidents who wanted data that more accurately reflected the mobility of college students than the federal graduation rate. The federal rate counts any student who leaves a school as an academic failure, no matter whether he or she enrolls at another school. Also, the federal rate does not recognize students who enter school as transfer students.
The GSR formula removes from the rate student-athletes who leave school while academically eligible and includes student-athletes who transfer to a school after initially enrolling elsewhere. This calculation makes it a more complete and accurate look at student-athlete success.
The rate also allows for a deeper understanding of graduation success in individual sports than the federal metric, which provides only broad groupings.
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