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As of follow-up to the NCAA's news release regarding its most recent Graduation Success Rates (GSR) report, Duke University athletics announced on Thursday that ninety-eight percent of
freshmen student-athletes receiving scholarship aid or recruited
individuals participating in programs
that do not offer athletic aid graduated from Duke within six years.
The GSR is based on student-athletes who entered college as freshmen from
2002-2005 and allows for the removal of those individuals from the
cohort who left Duke in good academic standing.
A total of 16 Duke teams achieved a 100 percent
GSR: baseball, men’s basketball, men’s fencing, men's golf, men's
swimming and diving, men's tennis, women’s basketball, women's fencing,
field hockey, women's golf, women's lacrosse, women's
soccer, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis, women’s cross
country/track and field and volleyball.
Duke's remaining programs – men's cross
country/track & field (92), football (92), men’s lacrosse (96),
men's soccer (93), wrestling (97) and rowing (96) – all achieved a GSR
of 92 percent of better.
Duke's 98 percent Graduation Success Rate is tops
in the ACC, followed by Boston College (97), Wake Forest (95), Miami
(93), North Carolina (88), Virginia Tech (88), Virginia (87), Clemson
(84), Maryland (83), Florida State (78), N.C. State
(77) and Georgia Tech (76).
In addition, the Federal Graduation Rates were
released on Thursday.
Duke freshmen scholarship athletes that enrolled
in 2002-05 posted a four-year class average of 86 percent.
The Federal
Graduation Rate does not allow for the removal
of those individuals from the cohort who left Duke in good academic
standing, and only includes scholarship student-athletes.
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) continues to be a leader in
academic success as demonstrated in the latest National Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA) Graduation Success Rates (GSR) report
released on Thursday.Teams from ACC institutions rank among the top
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