MEMPHIS, Tenn. – For the seventh year in a row, University of Memphis student-athletes posted an all-time high Graduation Success Rate (GSR).
In the NCAA's GSR report for the most recent 2014 cohort (2011-14), which calculates the rate at which student-athletes graduated within six years, Memphis' GSR was 94 percent. That figure is the highest in the American Athletic Conference and above the Division I average of 89 percent.
Memphis' 2013 cohort (2010-13) had a 93 percent GSR, the 2012 cohort's (2009-12) was 92 percent and the 2011 cohort's (2008-11) was 90 percent.
"We are immensely proud of our most recent student-athlete graduation success rate," Memphis Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Laird Veatch said.