STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford Athletics registered an overall graduation rate of 98 percent in the latest Graduation Success Rate, with 21 programs earning a 100 percent graduation rate.
Both the Graduation Success Rate, which reflects a rolling four-year average, and Federal Graduation Rates are based upon the percentage of student-athletes who earned a degree within six years of initial college enrollment. The NCAA developed the Graduation Success Rate to account for transfer student-athletes, mid-year enrollees and others not tracked by the Federal Graduation Rates. Stanford student-athletes have a Federal Graduation Rates four-class average of 94 percent.
This is the 13th consecutive year that Stanford's overall score has been at least 96. Stanford never has scored under 93.
Stanford's nine men's programs achieving perfect GSR scores were: baseball, basketball, cross country/track and field, golf, gymnastics, tennis, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling.
Stanford's 12 women's programs achieving perfect GSR scores were: basketball, beach volleyball, cross country/track and field, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, and volleyball.
Other programs checking in at 90 percent or higher were: women’s rowing (97), men’s swimming and diving (96), men’s soccer (95), and football (93).
The Graduation Success Rate is the NCAA's comprehensive calculation of student-athlete academic success. Unlike the federally mandated methodology, the NCAA rate includes incoming transfer students who graduate as well as students enrolling in the spring semester who receive athletic aid and graduate.
The less-inclusive Federal Graduation Rates is limited to individuals in the cohort who entered their freshmen year on athletic aid while also counting any individuals in the cohort that leave the institution as a non-graduate (including transfer students who may graduate elsewhere).
Stanford extended one of the most recognizable streaks in college athletics during the 2023-24 campaign, making it 48 consecutive seasons with at least one NCAA team championship coming back to The Farm.
The Cardinal produced three NCAA team champions – in women’s golf, men's gymnastics – and the women's sailing teams won ICSA national titles in fleet race and team race. The NCAA team titles maintained a streak that dates back to the 1976-77 academic year.
Five years after becoming the nation's all-time leader in NCAA team championships, Stanford owns 136 overall, ahead of its closest competitors in UCLA (124) and USC (113). Stanford also owns the most NCAA individual titles in Division I with 560, with USC a distant second with 423.
Stanford, which sponsors 36 varsity sports, has won the Learfield Directors' Cup in 26 of a possible 30 seasons, including a 25-year streak from 1995-2019. In the Capital One Cup, Stanford is a seven-time men's winner and a three-time women's winner. No other school has more titles in either category.