UCLA's NCAA Academic Progress Rates (APR) remained at high levels for the 2018-19 through 2021-22 period, with three teams earning Public Recognition Awards and each Bruin team recording four-year APR averages that are above the 930 score that the NCAA uses as a threshold for penalties. A total of 17 teams recorded scores at or above the national four-year rate of 984.
 
The APR serves as a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of student-athletes during an academic term and can help indicate eventual graduation rates.
 
Three Bruin teams received an APR Public Recognition Award with perfect scores of 1,000 – beach volleyball for the sixth consecutive time, women's cross country for the second straight year and women's tennis.
 
A total of nine UCLA teams earned single-year perfect marks of 1,000 for the 2021-22 academic year – baseball, women's basketball, beach volleyball, women's cross country, men's golf, women's golf, softball, men's soccer, and women's tennis.
 
UCLA's multi-year APR by sport (2018-19 through 2021-22):
Baseball – 993
Men's Basketball – 977
Women's Basketball – 983
Women's Beach Volleyball - 1,000 (APR Public Recognition Award-winner)
Men's Cross Country – 991
Women's Cross Country – 1,000 (APR Public Recognition Award-winner)
Football – 960
Men's Golf – 994
Women's Golf – 995
Women's Gymnastics – 990
Women's Rowing – 985
Men's Soccer – 992
Women's Soccer – 984
Softball – 986
Women's Swimming & Diving – 994
Men's Tennis – 975
Women's Tennis – 1,000 (APR Public Recognition Award-winner)
Men's Track & Field – 987
Women's Track & Field – 972
Men's Volleyball – 955
Women's Volleyball – 994
Men's Water Polo – 996
Women's Water Polo – 994