ATHENS, Ohio – In graduation data released by the NCAA today (Nov. 19), Ohio University student-athletes earned a four-class average (2015-19) of 92 percent in the Graduation Success Rate (GSR).   

The 2018-19 cohort also has a Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) of 76 percent for the second-straight cohort. The student-athlete graduation rate, calculated directly based on IPEDS-GRS (the methodology the U.S. Department of Education requires,) is the proportion of first-year, full-time student-athletes who entered a school on athletics aid and graduated from that institution within six years. This federal rate does not account for students who transfer from their original institution and graduate elsewhere. Ohio student-athletes continue to outperform the general student population at Ohio when comparing yearly FGR.  

Ohio ranked first in the Mid-American Conference in FGR and fourth in GSR.   
    
NCAA members, particularly presidents and chancellors, asked the NCAA in the early 2000s to develop a measure of student-athlete graduation success that more accurately reflects modern-day patterns of student enrollment and transfer. As a result, the NCAA created the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for Division I.   
    
The NCAA GSR differs from the federal calculation in two important ways. First, the GSR holds colleges accountable for those student-athletes who transfer into their school. Second, the GSR does not penalize colleges whose student-athletes transfer in good academic standing. Those student-athletes are moved into another college's cohort.