Utah State Student-Athletes Among Best in Mountain West With 90 Percent Graduation Success Rate

LOGAN, Utah — Utah State's Graduation Success Rate (GSR) stands at 90 percent for its student-athletes, it was announced by the NCAA national office Wednesday, a mark that ties for the third-best in the Mountain West.

Utah State had the best or tied for the best GSR in the Mountain West in six sports with golf (100), soccer (100), men’s tennis (100), women’s tennis (100), volleyball (100) and women’s cross country/track & field (95). USU's men's tennis program has now had a perfect GSR for 16 consecutive years, while USU's golf and soccer programs have now hit that mark in each of the last seven years.

Continuing Utah State's scores, softball (95), gymnastics (89), football (87), women’s basketball (82), men's cross country/track & field (79) and men’s basketball (73) also excelled within the framework.

The GSR is based on a comparison of the number of student-athletes who entered college and the number of those who graduated within six years of initial enrollment. The GSR subtracts student-athletes who depart for allowable exclusions (e.g. official church mission), as well as those who transfer but would have been academically eligible to compete had they returned to the institution.