The following instructions will assist with the verification of the enclosed NCAA graduation-rates report. It is extremely important that the data contained in your institution's report be confirmed and validated, as these reports will be made public. This will be your only chance to make changes to the report. Any changes found after the reports are released to the public will not be reflected until the following year.
The data contained herein were derived from the information your institution submitted on-line. The NCAA uses data only on those individuals who enter an institution seeking a bachelors or equivalent degree; graduation rates are based upon those students who then receive their baccalaureate degrees from your institution within six years.
Pursuant to the Student-Right-to-Know Act and NCAA policy, anytime a cell containing cohort numbers includes only one or two students, the data in that cell and one other will be suppressed so that no individual can be identified. If you see asterisks instead of numbers for a particular field, that is an indication that the data have been suppressed. The totals reflect the sum of both the suppressed and reported numbers.
The term "all students" refers to all students entering as first-time, full-time baccalaureate-seeking students; "student-athletes" refers to those students above, who also received athletically related financial aid. The "N" for each column is the number of students who entered; the percent is the percent of those students who received their baccalaureate degrees from your institution within six years.
The current academic year figures are the same as those reported on IPEDS GRS, Section II, Line 18A, divided by Line 10. The four-class average combines this number with the three previous freshman classes (using data from previous years' IPEDS GRS forms). Students who are considered "allowable exclusions" as defined by IPEDS (i.e. those who either die or become permanently disabled, those who leave the school to join the armed forces, foreign services or attend a church mission) are subtracted from Line 10 before the calculation.
Same as above, only broken out by gender and ethnicity.
These figures were reported to the NCAA. The current cohort and four-class rate figures are similar to the IPEDS rate. Students who are considered "allowable exclusions" as defined by IPEDS (i.e. those who either die or become permanently disabled, those who leave the school to join the armed forces, foreign services or attend a church mission) are subtracted from the cohort before the calculation. The graduation success rate (GSR) adds in transfer students and second-term enrollees, and will subtract from the entering cohort those who were reported as being eligible to compete had they returned to the institution.
These figures are broken out by individual-specific sports as listed in Section VI of the IPEDS GRS report. The values for "n" are listed at the bottom of the page.
| a. | These numbers represent the full-time students enrolled at your institution. |
| b-c. | These numbers represent the full-time students who received athletically-related aid at your institution and are the same as those reported in Section V of the IPEDS GRS. |
These figures were obtained from the institution. The academic success rate (ASR) adds transfer students, second-term enrollees, and those freshmen who did not receive athletics aid but were recruited to the equation and subtracts students from the entering cohort who are considered allowable exclusions (those who either die or become permanently disabled, those who leave the school to join the armed forces, foreign services or attend a church mission), as well as those who would have been academically eligible to compete had they returned to your institution. Students who graduate should NOT be placed in the eligible to compete column.