For the second-straight year, UCLA's student-athlete GSR is 87%, higher than the national average of 82% for Division I schools. The GSR is based on scholarship student-athletes who entered college as freshmen and transfers in the 2004-05 through 2007-08 classes and allows for the removal of those individuals from the cohort who left UCLA in good academic standing prior to the completion of their athletic eligibility.
Three Bruin squads - women's basketball, softball, and women's tennis - had a GSR of 100 percent. Fifteen of UCLA's 20 sports programs had a GSR of 80 percent or higher, and nine of the 20 sports were at 90 percent or higher. For the last five years, football has increasingly improved its GSR, improving 36% to its current total of 88%.
UCLA has the second-highest overall GSR in the Pac-12 Conference at 87%, and the football team has the second-highest GSR among conference schools with 88%.
"UCLA Athletics is one of the premier programs in the country because of the desire and success of our student-athletes to compete at the highest levels, both athletically and academically," said UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero. "Our core values emphasize a commitment to producing championship people and championship programs. Attaining high level GSRs is commensurate with those values."
The GSR is the NCAA's more comprehensive calculation of student-athlete academic success. The NCAA rate is more accurate than the federally-mandated methodology because it is more inclusive of the total student-athlete population. The GSR includes incoming transfers and students enrolling in the winter or spring quarters who receive athletics aid. Additionally, it deletes from the calculation student-athletes who leave an institution and were academically and athletically eligible to compete. The federal rate does neither.
The GSR for UCLA female student-athletes is 91 percent, while the rate for UCLA male student-athletes is 84 percent.