BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - WKU Athletics continues to impress in the classroom with strong marks in the Academic Progress Rate (APR) Institutional Report released by the NCAA on Tuesday.
The APR provides a real-time look at a program's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance. This year, the APR score was a multi-year average of the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years.
All of WKU's athletic programs exceeded the NCAA's mandated 930 minimum, and nine programs surpassed that threshold by 40 points or more. Eight topped that mark by 50 points or more.
Two of WKU's programs had a perfect score of 1,000 across that time period and 11 programs achieved a perfect score during the 2021-22 academic year.
In November, it was announced by the NCAA that WKU had reached its second highest Graduation Success Rate (GSR) in program history. WKU posted an overall GSR of 86, just below 2021's score of 87 which is the highest in program history. In four of the last five GSR reports, WKU has achieved a score of 85 or higher. Six of WKU's athletic programs recorded a 100 and eight had a 90 or above.
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