Graduation Succes Rate Highlights Academic Efforts At Long Beach State
11/19/2025 10:41:00 AM | General
Long Beach State’s GSR remained over 80 for the 14th straight year.
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The NCAA announced Graduation Success Rate (GSR) information for the cohort lasting six years ending in 2024-25, a metric that measures progress towards graduation for student-athletes by institution. Long Beach State continues to excel in this metric, and recorded a score of 84 as announced by the NCAA Wednesday.
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 25 percent difference between the Graduation Success Rate and the Federal Graduation Rate within athletics as transfers become more common within collegiate athletics.
Overall, Long Beach Sate had a score of 84, indicating that 84% of all student-athletes who enrolled at the institution over the last six years either graduated or made the appropriate progress towards graduation while they were at Long Beach State.
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.
Men's Golf, Women's Golf and Women's Volleyball all had perfect scores of 100, recognizing that every student over that six-year period either graduated or left the institution in good academic standing. The Beach had seven programs that had a graduation success rate higher than 90.
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 25 percent difference between the Graduation Success Rate and the Federal Graduation Rate within athletics as transfers become more common within collegiate athletics.
Overall, Long Beach Sate had a score of 84, indicating that 84% of all student-athletes who enrolled at the institution over the last six years either graduated or made the appropriate progress towards graduation while they were at Long Beach State.
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.
Men's Golf, Women's Golf and Women's Volleyball all had perfect scores of 100, recognizing that every student over that six-year period either graduated or left the institution in good academic standing. The Beach had seven programs that had a graduation success rate higher than 90.
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