Official NCAA Release

NEWARK, NJ–Eight Highlander athletic programs earned a perfect Academic Progress Rate (APR) as the NCAA released its academic success for the 2023-24 academic year on Tuesday.  The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation of all student-athletes on scholarship, and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.

The Highlanders multi-year average academic progress rate was a 990 and the single year average for 2023-24 is a 997.

The following teams–Men's Soccer, Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country, Women's Fencing, Women's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Women's Track and Field and Women's Volleyball received NCAA Public Recognition for being in the top 10% of all squads in each sport for their multi-year APR rate.  All eight teams had a multi-year APR rate of 1,000.

Each academic year, every Division I sports team's APR is calculated using a simple and consistent formula. Scholarship student-athletes can earn 1 point for staying on course for a degree in their chosen major and 1 point for being retained (or graduating) at the end of each academic term. For schools that do not offer athletics scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked. 

This is the fourth consecutive year of publicly reported APRs after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the Division I board approved the release of APR scores but voted to continue the suspension of program penalties. Normal Academic Performance Program operations with program penalties and loss of access to postseason competition were originally scheduled to resume in spring 2024, but the Division I Committee on Academics decided not to enforce the loss of access to postseason competition for teams that scored lower than 930 last year, instead offering a conditional waiver due to lingering impacts of the pandemic.

APRs for each team, lists of teams receiving public recognition are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.