NCAA report shows Stanford athletes exceed academic progress standards

Stanford Athletics has announced that all 35 Stanford athletic programs exceeded the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) standards. Six Cardinal teams earned perfect scores in the fifth annual set of APR numbers released by the NCAA this week.

The APR is a term-by-term metric used to monitor team academic performance. NCAA overall data show that a majority of sports teams at Division I colleges and universities are meeting the mark in the classroom. The overall multi-year Division I APR is 967, up 3 points from last year. In the high-profile sports, football’s average four-year APR is 944, up 5 points over last year; men’s basketball is 940, up 7 points; and baseball is 954, up 8 points.

At Stanford, men’s golf, men’s water polo, women’s cross country, women’s gymnastics, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball programs received perfect 1,000 scores. Near-perfect scores came in lacrosse, women’s water polo, men’s volleyball, women’s golf, women’s indoor and outdoor track and women’s swimming.

Read the press release from Stanford Athletics and the extensive coverage of the APR data on the NCAA website.