Division I student-athletes who entered college in 1992 mark the seventh consecutive class that met higher initial-eligibility standards. Student-athletes who entered a NCAA institution and received an athletics grant as freshmen in 1992 graduated at a rate of 58 percent. This class of student-athletes continues the pattern set by previous classes of graduating at a rate one to two percent higher than the general student body. Student-athletes in the two classes prior to the new academic standards graduated at a rate one to two percent lower than the general student body. The data, as collected from all NCAA Division I member colleges and universities and published in the 1999 NCAA Division I Graduation-Rates Report, are conservative representations of the graduation rate. Only student-athletes who enroll as freshmen, receive athletics related financial aid, and who graduate from that institution within six years of initial enrollment are tracked. Student-athletes who transfer in good academic standing and graduate elsewhere count against their original institution as not graduating and are not counted in the freshman cohort rate for their second institution. Compilation of graduation rates data changed in 1998. This is the second year of data collection using the government-supplied Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) graduation rate survey. While this instrument is very similar to the one formerly used by the NCAA, some small changes in definitions and reporting requirements might lead to slight changes in the data. Overall, graduation rates for the class of freshmen that entered in 1992 were up slightly from 1991 rates. This class equaled the rates of the 1988 through 1990 classes. Division I-A football players show a slight increase in graduation rates for the first time in three years. The graduation rate for Division I-A football players entering in 1992 was 51 percent, a one percent increase from the previous year. The graduation rates for entering Division I male basketball players remain steady at 41 percent, this after a 4 percent decrease for the class of 1991. Graduation rates for white male basketball players were 53 percent, 6 percent higher than the previous class. However, black male basketball players are graduating at a rate of 33 percent, down from 37 percent for those entering in 1991. Division I female basketball players show a decline for the third straight year. The rate was 62 percent for those entering in 1992. Division I black female student-athletes overall, as well as black female basketball players, show a decline. The drop for black female basketball players puts the graduation rate at 49 percent, the lowest since the entering class of 1985, which had a rate of 47 percent. In general, student-athletes entering in 1992 are graduating at rates slightly higher than students of the same racial and gender group. Despite the drop in graduation rates for entering black female student-athletes, this group continues to show the largest differential in graduation rates between student-athletes and the general student population. They graduated at a rate of 53 percent, 12 percent higher than the black female population, which graduated at a rate of 41 percent. White female student-athletes entering in 1992 graduated at a rate 10 percent higher than the white female student body, 71 percent and 61 percent, respectively. Black male student-athletes also graduate at a significantly higher rate than their counterparts in the overall student body with a graduation rate of 40 percent compared to the general student-body rate of 31 percent. Each year the NCAA compiles and publishes graduation rates data for Division I member institutions. The Division I report is distributed to 27,000 high schools for use by guidance counselors, coaches, students and parents. The report is also sent to higher education leaders, members of Congress and the media. 1999 also marks the second year that the NCAA has published official graduation rates for Division II and III institutions. Additional Information
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