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College Recruiting: NCAA Academic Progress Rates

June 06, 2005….NCAA Releases Revised APRs

FROM INDY in May has come not only the 500 but also the NCAA's revised Academic Progress Rates for 6000 teams in 41 Division I sports for the 2003-4 academic year.

Below are listed D1 sports with percentage of teams failing to meet the NCAA's standard for academic progress by athletes; the progress rates of the top 25 teams in baseball, men's and women's basketball, and football; and a list of colleges whose entire athletics programs failed to meet the standard.

The NCAA evaluated each athlete in each term of the 2003-4 academic year. Players who surpassed the association's requirements for progress toward a degree and remained enrolled for the next term earned two points for their teams. Those who met the requirements but left college earned one point. Those who flunked out earned no points.

The NCAA took the total points earned by each team's athletes and divided it by the total possible number of points a team could earn. The result was multiplied by 1000 to get the APR. The NCAA says that teams with consistent rates of 925 and above will graduate at least half of their athletes.

Starting next year (2005-2006), teams with rates below 925 will lose a scholarship whenever a scholarship athlete leaves school without staying eligible.

However, the NCAA will allow waivers for certain teams. But waiver requirements have not yet been set.

NCAA REVISED APRs, BY SPORT

Sport:Failing teams/Total teams (% failing)
Men's basketball:     151 / 326 (46%)
Football:             106 / 235 (45%)
Wrestling:             35 /  84 (42%)
Baseball:             117 / 284 (41%)
Men's indoor track:    55 / 217 (25%)
Men's soccer:          49 / 198 (25%)
Men's outdoor track:   62 / 257 (24%)
Men's tennis:          51 / 265 (19%)
Women's basketball:    60 / 324 (19%)
Men's cross-country:   49 / 285 (17%)
Men's golf:            45 / 285 (16%)
Women's tennis:        46 / 310 (15%)
Women's indoor track:  37 / 267 (14%)
Women's outdoor track: 39 / 291 (13%)
Softball:              35 / 264 (13%)
Women's golf:          26 / 223 (12%)
Women's volleyball:    37 / 311 (12%)
Men's swimming:        15 / 140 (11%)
Women's cross-country: 31 / 305 (10%)
Women's soccer:        19 / 295 (6%)
Women's swimming:      10 / 185 (5%)
Women's rowing:         0 /  80 (0%)
All other sports:      47 / 570 (8%)

NOTE: The list includes only those sports with 80 or more teams. The NCAA predicts that many small teams will exceed its standard when two years' data are compiled. As a result, the association excludes roughly a third of teams with scores below the standard from its own statistics on troubled teams. Such teams are still classified as ''failing'' in this table.

SOURCE: www.ncaa.org