STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford Athletics registered an overall graduation rate of 98 percent in the latest Graduation Success Rate (GSR), with 19 programs earning a 100 percent graduation rate.
Both the GSR and Federal Graduation Rates (FGR) are based upon classes from 2006-09 and reflect the percentage of student-athletes earning a degree within six years. The NCAA developed the GSR to account for transfer student-athletes, mid-year enrollees and others not tracked by the FGR. Stanford student-athletes have a FGR four-class average of 95 percent.
Stanford has produced the same totals (98 percent GSR, 95 percent FGR) for the third consecutive year. In 2013, the Cardinal boasted a GSR of 97 percent while its FGR score was 93 percent.
Among the 11 women's programs achieving perfect GSR scores: basketball, fencing, gymnastics, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming, synchronized swimming, volleyball and water polo.
On the men's side, eight programs were assigned perfect GSR scores: cross country/track and field, fencing, golf, gymnastics, soccer, tennis, volleyball and water polo.
Football received a GSR of 99 percent for the third consecutive year. That total leads all Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institutions and ranks 11 points higher than the next Pac-12 school (UCLA - 88 percent).
Joining football as programs to check in at 90 percent or higher: baseball (96), men's swimming (96), wrestling (95) and field hockey (95).
Stanford continued to further enhance its reputation as the nation's leader in combining academics and athletics in 2016, as the Cardinal captured its 22nd consecutive Learfield Sports Directors' Cup, presented to the most successful intercollegiate athletic department in the country. Stanford has also won at least one NCAA championship in each of the last 40 seasons, the longest such streak in the nation. Of Stanford's 132 championships overall, 109 are NCAA titles.
The GSR is the NCAA's more comprehensive calculation of student-athlete academic success. Unlike the federally mandated methodology, the NCAA rate includes incoming transfer students who graduate as well as and students enrolling in the spring semester who receive athletic aid and graduate. The GSR excludes from the calculation student-athletes who leave an institution who are academically eligible to compete such as transfer students.
The less-inclusive FGR 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).
