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[alum73]

That is interesting, and it doesn't seem to match the academic progress numbers where we are ranked much better. I can't explain why they wouldn't be more congruous.

[alum73]

I got some clarification:

 

When an institution post its graduation rate for student-athletes it is always for classes that have already graduated because the NCAA uses a six-year term. In the case of what is posted

on the University's website, the latest NCAA graduation rates are for the class of student-athletes

that enrolled at Albany in 1997-98, which because of our transition years from III to II to Division I,

this is the first year that the NCAA tabulated Albany's athletic graduation rate.

If you think back to 97-98, those students were recruited as Division Two student-athletes who transitioned to Division One in 1999. Following the NCAA formula, the 55% graduation rate reflects those SCHOLARSHIP athletes who would have stayed through the end of their careers. Obviously, UA's rate is lower then it should be because many of these same athletes ended up transferring

because they may not have been able to compete at the D-1 level or left to go to another school because they saw that their playing time may diminish as new recruits came in.

It also explains why Binghamton has no graduation rate reported (they were still D-3) in 1997-98. Stony Brook is probably a little slow in reporting their numbers, which is why we don't see their rate listed in the comparison.

 

The APR rate which Albany did very well in, reflects today's student-athletes, so the two numbers on top of each other are really comparing two different sets of UA student-athletes.