TicketsCINCINNATI –University of Cincinnati student-athletes continue to achieve in the classroom according to the latest NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR).
For the 2016-17 period, UC set a school-record multi-year rate of 988 along with a single-year rate of 992, keeping UC above the 990 threshold as a program for the second-straight year. The previous best multi-year rate was 986 a year ago.
Eleven of UC's 17 teams had perfect 1,000 single-year APR scores for 2016-17, including the tennis and volleyball teams, who received NCAA Public Recognition Awards earlier this week after earning APR scores which ranked among the Top 10 percent of their respective sports.
The tennis and volleyball squads have hit the APR rate of 1,000, a perfect score, in each of the last four years while baseball (3), men's cross country (3), men's golf (3), women's golf (2), women's soccer (2), men's swimming and diving (2) and women's swimming and diving (2) each have sustained multiple-year successes.
UC RELEASE: Bearcats Tennis, Volleyball Honored by the NCAA for APR Success
Women's basketball and men's soccer both recorded a single-year APR rate of 1,000, jumping 21 and 41 points, respectively, from last year's period.
Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in NCAA Division I, APR holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term. For more information on the NCAA's APR, including a searchable database, visit NCAA.org.
For the 2016-17 period, UC set a school-record multi-year rate of 988 along with a single-year rate of 992, keeping UC above the 990 threshold as a program for the second-straight year. The previous best multi-year rate was 986 a year ago.
Eleven of UC's 17 teams had perfect 1,000 single-year APR scores for 2016-17, including the tennis and volleyball teams, who received NCAA Public Recognition Awards earlier this week after earning APR scores which ranked among the Top 10 percent of their respective sports.
The tennis and volleyball squads have hit the APR rate of 1,000, a perfect score, in each of the last four years while baseball (3), men's cross country (3), men's golf (3), women's golf (2), women's soccer (2), men's swimming and diving (2) and women's swimming and diving (2) each have sustained multiple-year successes.
UC RELEASE: Bearcats Tennis, Volleyball Honored by the NCAA for APR Success
Women's basketball and men's soccer both recorded a single-year APR rate of 1,000, jumping 21 and 41 points, respectively, from last year's period.
Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in NCAA Division I, APR holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term. For more information on the NCAA's APR, including a searchable database, visit NCAA.org.