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UCLA Ties Program Record with 92 Percent Graduation Success Rate

November 19, 2025 | Bruin Athletics

UCLA Athletics tied a program record with a 92% Graduation Success Rate (GSR) in the 2025 release, which is based on scholarship student-athletes who entered college as freshmen or transfers in the 2015-16 through 2018-19 classes. The Division I overall average is 90%.

Seven Bruin teams earned GSRs of 100 percent โ€“ baseball, women's basketball, beach volleyball, women's golf, women's tennis, women's volleyball and women's water polo.

Six of the seven teams have sustained 100 percent graduation rates for consecutive years. This is the 13th consecutive year for both women's basketball and women's tennis, 11th for women's golf, fourth for baseball, third for beach volleyball and second for women's volleyball.

Seventeen of UCLA's 21 programs had a GSR of 90 percent or higher. UCLA has 25 teams, but for this report, cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field are counted as one sport.

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.

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