WVU Release WVU Posts Record-High Graduation Success Rate Score

[Vernon]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (December 6, 2023) – West Virginia University’s combined varsity athletic teams have a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) score of 94 percent, according to data released today by the NCAA. The most recent Graduation Success Rates are based on the four entering freshmen classes in Division I from 2013 through 2016.



WVU’s score of 94 percent is the highest in the history of the GSR and is up four points from last year’s data, reflecting the four entering freshmen classes from 2012 through 2015. WVU’s score is up eight percent from two years ago.



WVU’s score of 94 percent ties for the second highest in the Big 12 Conference with Baylor and one percent behind Iowa State at 95 percent. The Big 12 Conference graduation rates are as follows: Iowa State (95), West Virginia (94), Baylor (94), Kansas State (93), Oklahoma State (92), Kansas (90), Oklahoma (89), Texas (89), TCU (87) and Texas Tech (85).



The Graduation Success Rate was developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform initiative to more accurately measure the academic success of Division I student-athletes.



The four-year GSR scores (percentage) for WVU’s varsity sports teams are as follows (2013 to 2016): baseball 89; men’s basketball 100; football 89; golf 100; men’s soccer 90; men’s swimming & diving 91; wrestling 82; women’s basketball 100; women’s cross country/track 100; rowing 92; gymnastics 92; women’s soccer 100; women’s swimming & diving 100; tennis 100; volleyball 100; and rifle 100.

 

[oceantide83]

What are all those women's sports with the 100's doing there? Isn't that discrimination against the men? Sounds like the curriculum needs dumbed down some more to make these graduation rates fair.

 

[The Bell Tolls for Thee]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (December 6, 2023) – West Virginia University’s combined varsity athletic teams have a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) score of 94 percent, according to data released today by the NCAA. The most recent Graduation Success Rates are based on the four entering freshmen classes in Division I from 2013 through 2016.



WVU’s score of 94 percent is the highest in the history of the GSR and is up four points from last year’s data, reflecting the four entering freshmen classes from 2012 through 2015. WVU’s score is up eight percent from two years ago.



WVU’s score of 94 percent ties for the second highest in the Big 12 Conference with Baylor and one percent behind Iowa State at 95 percent. The Big 12 Conference graduation rates are as follows: Iowa State (95), West Virginia (94), Baylor (94), Kansas State (93), Oklahoma State (92), Kansas (90), Oklahoma (89), Texas (89), TCU (87) and Texas Tech (85).



The Graduation Success Rate was developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform initiative to more accurately measure the academic success of Division I student-athletes.



The four-year GSR scores (percentage) for WVU’s varsity sports teams are as follows (2013 to 2016): baseball 89; men’s basketball 100; football 89; golf 100; men’s soccer 90; men’s swimming & diving 91; wrestling 82; women’s basketball 100; women’s cross country/track 100; rowing 92; gymnastics 92; women’s soccer 100; women’s swimming & diving 100; tennis 100; volleyball 100; and rifle 100.

Unfortunately this just speaks to lowering of standards rather than raising performance. There was a time when all colleges expected a certain level of failure lest the curriculum be too easy and of little meaning upon completion. Of course that was before government subsidized student loans switched the incentive structure to being personalized paper mills with the word diploma on them.