Utah athletics graduation rates near tops among collegiate programs

SALT LAKE CITY — College of Utah student-athletes are successful on the sector and within the classroom, inserting the varsity among the many finest collegiate applications within the nation.

Utah’s 93% commencement fee for its athletes is tied for fourth total amongst public universities that make up the Energy 5 designation. The speed can be the sixth-highest amongst all Energy 5 colleges, that are ones within the Pac-12, SEC, Massive 10, ACC and Massive 12 conferences.

The NCAA information measures the commencement charges of student-athletes inside six years of enrolling in class.

Within the Pac-12 Convention, Utah trailed solely Stanford with a 96% commencement fee.

Utah has now reached the 93% commencement mark for 5 consecutive years.

“We’re extremely happy with our student-athletes for sustaining tutorial excellence and incomes levels at a fee that ranks among the many highest within the nation,” mentioned Utah Athletics Director Mark Harlan. “I additionally wish to thank our coaches and employees for persevering with to establish the very best and brightest within the recruiting course of and inserting a excessive precedence on tutorial success for his or her student-athletes.”

Six Utes athletics applications achieved an ideal 100% commencement fee, together with baseball, males’s and ladies’s basketball, gymnastics, lacrosse, males’s and ladies’s snowboarding, ladies’s tennis and volleyball.

• Each the gymnastics and ladies’s tennis groups have had good scores all 18 years because the GSR was launched in 2005.
• Males’s tennis has earned a 100% rating for the thirteenth consecutive 12 months.
• Volleyball has earned an ideal rating eight consecutive years.
• Males’s basketball has achieved 100% six years operating.
• The soccer program has eclipsed 90 p.c in every of the final 5 years and its 90% rating for 2022 is tied for second within the Pac-12. 
• Ten Utah groups equaled or improved their GSR rating from final 12 months, whereas 12 applications reported scores equal to or larger than their respective NCAA Division I combination GSR inside its sport.