Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU Boasts Top Graduation Rates
February 10, 2006 | General
Feb. 10, 2006
Bowling Green, Ohio - Bowling Green State University has the top graduation rate among NCAA Division I schools in Ohio in three categories and second highest in another in a recent report released by the NCAA. A full report is available at www.ncaa.org.
"I think the numbers show that BGSU does its best to identify individuals who not only are successful on the playing field but are committed to taking advantage of the opportunity to obtain a valuable education as part of that experience," said BGSU Director of Athletics Paul Krebs.
1998-99 Freshman Cohort--76%
(Ranked 1st in the MAC, 1st in Ohio, 14% above national average
and 16% above BGSU student body average)
1995-98 Freshman Cohort--69%
(3rd in the MAC, 2nd in Ohio, 7% above national average
and 8% above BGSU student body average)
1995-98 Freshman Cohort Graduation Success Rate--84%
(2nd in the MAC, 1st in Ohio, and 8% above national average)
1989-98 Graduation Rates-Exhausted Eligibility--94%
(1st in the MAC, 1st in Ohio, and 9% above national average)
The report gives graduation information about students and student-athletes entering in 1998. This is the most recent graduating class for which the required six years of information is available. The report provides information about student-athletes who received athletics aid in one or more of eight sports categories: football, men's basketball, baseball, men's track/cross country, men's other sports and mixed sports, women's basketball, women's track/cross country, and other women's sports.
DEFINING THE CATEGORIES
Three different measures of graduation rates are presented in this report: (1) freshman-cohort rate, (2) Graduation Success Rate (GSR), and (3) exhausted-eligibility rate.
The freshman-cohort rate indicates the percentage of freshmen who entered during a given academic year and graduated within six years from that institution.
The GSR is a four-year rate adds students who transfer into the institution to the calculation, and removes those who leave in good academic standing before exhausting athletics eligibility from the calculation. The graduation success rate (GSR) adds to the first-time freshmen, those students who entered mid-year, as well as student-athletes who transferred into an institution. In addition, the GSR will subtract students from the entering cohort those who are considered allowable exclusions (those who either die or become permanently disabled, those who leave the school to join the armed forces, foreign services or attend a church mission), as well as those who would have been academically eligible to compete had they returned to your institution.
The exhausted eligibility rate indicates the percentage of student-athletes who used all of their athletics eligibility at this college or university and who graduated by August 2004.
OHIO NCAA DIVISION I
GRADUATION RATES
1998-99 Freshman Cohort
BGSU 76%
Miami 71%
Toledo 71%
Akron 66%
Ohio 63%
OSU 61%
KSU 59%
YSU 59%
UC 58%
WSU 56%
Cle. St 38%
1995-98 Freshman Cohort
Miami 70%
BGSU 69%
Ohio 65%
KSU 63%
Toledo 62%
OSU 62%
YSU 62%
WSU 60%
UC 59%
Akron 54%
Cle St. 43%
1995-98 Freshman Cohort
Graduation Success Rate (GSR)
BGSU 84%
Cle St. 84%
Toledo 82%
Ohio 78%
OSU 78%
KSU 77%
Miami 73%
WSU 73%
YSU 70%
Akron 67%
UC 66%
1989-98 Freshman Cohort
Graduation Rates For Those
Who Have Exhausted Eligibility
BGSU 94%
Miami 93%
Ohio 92%
YSU 92%
KSU 91%
OSU 88%
Cle St. 86%
Akron 85%
WSU 85%
Toledo 84%
UC 78%
