UCLA Posts Third-Straight Year with 90% or Higher GSR
November 17, 2020 | Bruin Athletics
UCLA Athletics has recorded a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 90%, marking its third consecutive year at 90% or greater. This year's rate of 90% exceeds the national average of 88% for Division I schools. The 2020 GSR cohort is based on scholarship student-athletes who entered college as freshmen or transfers in the 2010-11 through 2013-14 classes.
Seven Bruin squads โ men's tennis, women's basketball, rowing, women's golf, gymnastics, swimming & diving and women's tennis - had a GSR of 100 percent. Eighteen programs had a GSR of 80 percent or higher, and 11 were at 90 percent or higher. (UCLA has 25 sports; for this report, cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field are counted as one sport, and beach volleyball did not begin until 2013).
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. Student-athletes who leave an institution academically and athletically eligible to compete are removed from their respective cohorts.