Most Recent NCAA Submission Highlights
April 2023 submission for to the 2016 cohort
- 55% of 11 football players
- 50% of 6 basketball players (men and women combined)
- 59% of all 49 student-athletes entering in 2016 in all sports combined
- 75% of all full-time 6,375 first-time freshmen entering in 2016 graduated in six years
Beginning with the 2019-20 academic year, a portion of Division I revenue will be distributed to member schools based on the academic achievement of student-athletes. An institution must meet one of three criteria, one of which is the GSR for the most recently available year is equal to or greater than 90%. CU Boulder’s GSR for the 2016 cohort was 85%. GSR traditionally is calculated as a four-class average and this comes in at 90%.
Excel summary of graduation rates for all sports and all entering freshman from 1991 to the most recently reported cohort year.
Detailed information of graduation rates for entering freshman by sport group, gender and ethnicity.
Upcoming Submission Release
Data/information from the April 2024 submission (2017 cohort) will not be made available until fall 2024 due to the NCAA asking institutions to wait until they publically release the data first.