INDIANAPOLIS – For the sixth consecutive year, Illinois State student-athletes have earned a 90 percent Graduation Success Rate as announced today by the NCAA. The Redbirds' 90 percent multi-year rate equals the national multi-year average for all Division I institutions for student-athletes entering from 2014-15 through the 2017-18 academic year. ISU's muti-year score has not been below 85 percent since 2002.
Illinois State's single-year rate of 94 percent exceeds the NCAA's overall single-cohort graduation success rate of 91 percent. The Redbirds' Federal Graduation Rate single-year (2017-18) rate of 73 percent exceeds the same for that of ISU's student body by 7 percent.