DURHAM – Statistics for the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) released Tuesday by the NCAA indicated that a Power 5-leading 98 percent of freshmen student-athletes receiving scholarship aid, or recruited individuals participating in programs that do not offer athletic aid, graduated from Duke within six years.
The GSR is based on student-athletes who entered college as freshmen in 2012-15 and allows for the removal of those individuals from the cohort who left Duke in good academic standing.
Nationally, Duke led all Power 5 institutions with its 98 percent GSR and tied for sixth nationally. Only Columbia, Bucknell, Harvard, Villanova and Yale were above Duke.