INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Sun Belt Conference packages proceed to excel within the classroom based on the latest NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released by the NCAA national office.
In conference-sponsored sports activities, the Sun Belt posted an general multi-year APR rating of 983—a one-point year-over-year enhance—with a four-year excessive 47 packages incomes good scores of 1,000 from knowledge submitted for the 2021-22 via 2024-25 educational years. This is the fourth-straight yr that the convention’s general multi-year APR rating and variety of good scores have each elevated.
Georgia State led all member colleges with six packages recording good scores in conference-sponsored sports activities together with girls’s cross nation, volleyball, males’s basketball, seashore volleyball, girls’s tennis and ladies’s monitor & discipline. Georgia Southern and James Madison every had 5 packages publish good marks in conference-sponsored sports activities.
Sun Belt seashore volleyball achieved the very best single-sport weighted multi-year APR (998), together with good scores for Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Georgia State, Mercer and UCNW. Sun Belt girls’s golf additionally posted a 996 weighted multi-year APR, with 10-of-13 packages attaining good scores of 1,000.
The APR, created to supply a real-time measurement of educational success fairly than the six-year delay with commencement charges, is a team-based metric by which scholarship student-athletes earn one level for every time period by which they continue to be academically eligible and one level for returning to highschool or graduating. Schools that don’t provide athletics assist monitor the eligibility and retention of their recruited student-athletes inside their APR cohorts.
Every Division I athletics program submits knowledge to the NCAA as a part of the Academic Progress Rate calculation. The NCAA studies each single-year and four-year charges. National aggregates are based mostly on all groups with usable, member-provided knowledge.