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ACC Schools Again Register Impressive GSR Data

GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) –­­­­­­­ The Atlantic Coast Conference’s collective high level of academic success is again reflected by the NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) report released on Thursday.
 
The ACC’s average graduation rate of 92 percent matches the conference’s average GSR achieved a year ago and is four points higher than this year's national average of 88 percent. Other notes of interest:
  • A total of 145 ACC teams achieved perfect GSR scores of 100, led by 19 teams from Duke and 17 from Notre Dame.
  • Twenty-five ACC teams achieved GSR scores of 100 in the sports of men’s basketball, women’s basketball and baseball.
  • Nine ACC men’s basketball teams earned higher than the Division I basketball GSR average. Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina, Syracuse, Virginia and Wake Forest posted GSR scores of 100.
  • Ten ACC football teams matched or earned higher than the FBS football GSR average.
  • In the sport of football, the ACC remains the only conference to have multiple teams register GSR scores of 90 or higher every year since 2005. Duke (96), Louisville (93), Pitt (93) and Boston College (92) reached that plateau in this year’s report.
  • Eleven ACC women’s basketball teams matched or earned higher than the Division I women’s basketball GSR average.
  • This marks the 13th straight year that the ACC has had at least four women’s basketball programs score 100, making it the only peer conference to do so. Nine ACC teams – Boston College, Duke, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pitt, Syracuse and Virginia – hit the century mark in the latest report.
  • Ten ACC baseball teams earned higher than the Division I GSR baseball average. Clemson, Duke, Louisville, NC State, Notre Dame, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest each registered a 100 GSR.
Thursday’s update is based on information obtained from the 2021 NCAA Graduation Rate Report. This is the most recent graduating class for which the required six years of information is available. A graduation rate (percent) is based on a comparison of the number of students who entered a college or university and the number of those who graduated within six years. For example, if 100 students entered and 60 graduated, the graduation rate is 60 percent. 
 
It should be noted that graduation rates are affected by a number of factors: some students transfer to another college, some may be dismissed for academic deficiencies, some may have to work part-time and need more than six years to graduate.
 
The Graduation Success Rate (GSR) subtracts students from the entering cohort who are considered allowable exclusions (those who either die or become personally disabled, those who leave 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 the institution.