You may remember in June I posted the latest "Academic Progress Rate" scores, or at least the top 25, and questioned if they should be tied to the idea of academic excellence by athletic programs.
So you don't have to go back and look here they are again:
APR rankings (multi-year scores)
1. Wisconsin 998
2. Northwestern 992
3. Michigan 990
4. Stanford 987
5. Utah State 985
(tie) Nebraska 985
7. Clemson 984
8. Vanderbilt 983
9. Army 981
(tie) Boise State 981
11. Air Force 980
(tie) Rutgers 980
(tie) Boston College 980
14. Notre Dame 978
(tie) Alabama 978
(tie) Georgia Tech 978
17. Virginia Tech 977
(tie) Washington 977
(tie) Louisville 977
(tie) Central Florida 977
(tie) Indiana 977
22. Missouri 976
(tie) Kansas State 976
24. South Carolina 975
25. Minnesota 975
(tie) UCLA 975
(tie) San Jose State 975
Now, if the APR measures whether everyone's on pace to graduate it only makes sense that the rankings would be similar to the actual graduation rates even though there is a bit of a time lag involved in the annual numbers released by the NCAA. Specifically, the Graduation Success Rate covers students who entered school in 2007 and the APR scores are from 2013-14 and measure progress over four academic years.
NCAA’s
Graduation Success Rate
1. Texas-San
Antonio
2. Stanford
3.
Northwestern
4.
Rice
5.
Notre
Dame
6.
Air
Force
7.
Boston
College
8.
Northern
Illinois
9.
Central
Florida
10. Wake Forest
11. UCLA
12. Army
13. Penn State
14. Miami
15. Utah State
16. Boise State
17. Tulane
18. Rutgers
19. TCU
20. Clemson
21. Florida
22. Nebraska
23. Alabama
24. Temple
25. Navy
Note: Texas-San Antonio began playing football at the Bowl Subdivision level in 2012.
So how many programs were on both lists (and remember there were 27 on the APR list due to a tie)? 13 -- essentially half.
That's a significant reason why I stopped using APR scores in favor of actual graduation rates for my annual program rankings ... which I hope to have posted on the blog tomorrow.
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