Academics | 12/6/2021 4:18:00 PM
INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA has released the latest Division II graduation rate data, including the division's Academic Success Rate (ASR), which held good news for Barry University.
The Bucs completed another year, their eighth, with an ASR of over 90 percent. Ten of the Bucs' 12 teams fielded an ASR of over 90, including men's tennis, women's tennis and women's golf, which all had 100 percent graduates. Barry's graduation rate for the latest cohort (entering class of 2014) was 92 percent, up one percent from the 2013 cohort.
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The national four-year ASR average increased to 76 percent, a 2-point increase from last year's rate, according to the most recent Academic Success Rate data.
The NCAA developed the Division II ASR at the request of college and university presidents who believed the federal graduation rate was flawed. Division II's ASR data takes transfer students into account and removes likely transfers-out who left the school in good academic standing. In addition, given the partial scholarship financial aid model of Division II, the ASR data includes student-athletes not on athletically related financial aid. The result is that ASR captures more than 31,000 non-scholarship student-athletes who were enrolled in the four years covered in the most recent data.
Even when utilizing the less-inclusive federal rate, Division II student-athletes outperform the general student body by eight percent. The federal rate for Division II student-athletes increased by 1 point to 60 percent, while the general student body also increased by 1 point to 52 percent.
At the NCAA Convention in January 2014, the Division II membership approved a legislative package intended to increase student-athlete success and graduation rates. The package addresses a variety of academic standards, and includes adjustments to eligibility standards, progress-toward-degree requirements and standards for transfers from two-year colleges. This is the third academic year in which all of these requirements are in effect.
ABOUT BARRY UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS
Barry University continues to field one of the most successful athletic programs in NCAA Division II. In addition to their outstanding ASR, the Bucs have captured 24 national championships and 93 Sunshine State Conference titles. Buccaneers have won 402 All-America awards in 13 sports and 556 Scholar and Academic All-America awards over their 38 years of competition.
