BOCA RATON – Statistics for the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) released recently by the NCAA indicated that a school-record 90 percent of freshmen student-athletes receiving scholarship aid, or recruited individuals participating in programs that do not offer athletic aid, graduated from Florida Atlantic University within six years.
The GSR is based on student-athletes who entered college as freshmen in 2013-16 and allows for the removal of those individuals from the cohort who left FAU in good academic standing. Florida Atlantic has steadily improved its overall GSR in each of the five years under Vice President and Director of Athletics Brian White.
Florida Atlantic was one of five schools from Conference USA to top the 90-percent threshold, while a total of nine FAU teams achieved a 100 percent GSR for the 2013-16 period: softball, volleyball, beach volleyball, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, women’s swimming & diving, men’s swimming & diving, women’s golf and men’s golf.
Baseball’s 96 percent GSR was second-highest in C-USA, as was women’s soccer’s 96 percent. Men’s basketball was fourth in C-USA with its 93 percent. FAU’s remaining programs – women’s basketball (87), women’s track (83), football (79) and men’s soccer (73) – achieved a GSR of better than 70 percent.
The following Owl programs achieved or matched their highest GSR since the NCAA began tracking the data 19 years ago – men’s basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, men’s tennis, men’s swimming & diving, women’s golf, women’s swimming & diving and women’s tennis.
Although the Owls joined the American Athletic Conference for the 2023-24 academic year, the rankings reflect its previous membership in Conference USA.
