Nov. 15, 2016 AUBURN, Ala. – The NCAA released its Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) on Tuesday as part of the annual academic performance program. Statistics represent students that began their studies during the 2009-10 academic year.
GRADUATION SUCCESS RATE: Auburn Athletics' graduation success rate was 80 percent for all student-athletes. This is the highest rate in Auburn Athletics history. Auburn female student-athletes’ graduation success rate graded out at 91 percent. The GSR begins with the federal cohort, and adds transfer students, mid-year enrollees, and non-scholarship students (in specified cases) to the sample. Student-athletes who leave an institution while in good academic standing before exhausting athletics eligibility are removed from the cohort of their initial institution. This rate provides a more complete and accurate look at actual student-athlete success by taking into account the full variety of participants in Division I athletics and tracking their academic outcomes.
FEDERAL GRADUATION RATE: Auburn Athletics’ federal graduation rate was 69 percent. As in the case of the GSR, Auburn’s Federal Graduation rate is the highest in program history. The FGR assesses only first-time full-time freshmen in a given cohort and only counts them as academic successes if they graduate from their institution of initial enrollment within a six-year period. It makes no accommodation for transfers into or out of an institution. The rate is very limited because it ignores the large number of transfer students in higher education, but it is still the only rate that allows a direct comparison between student-athletes and the general student body.
The overall Auburn University federal graduation rate saw an improvement to 73 percent, a five percent-point increase over the past two years.