“Penn State student-athletes earn record-tying 93% Graduation Success Rate”

[BobPSU92]

Penn State posts eighth consecutive Graduation Success Rate of 90% or higher; 11 teams earn 100% Graduation Success Rate; 21 squads at or above overall Division I national average

Penn State student-athletes earn record-tying 93% Graduation Success Rate | Penn State University

Penn State student-athletes earned a record-tying 93% NCAA Graduation Success Rate and 11 programs earned perfect 100% ratings. This is the eighth consecutive year the Nittany Lions have posted a record or record-tying performance in the classroom.

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I know we’re at the bottom of the world, but it reads good.

 

[PSUFTG]

Link to the data for the Big ten:

Graduation Success Rate

No one who talks about GSR (or at least 98% of those who talk about it) can tell you what it actually is, or what meaning it has - but there are the numbers anyway (those are for the overall athletic programs - you can also search for single-sport specific).
PSU just about dead middle of the Big 10 - which is a significantly better standing than last year - especially for football. Iowa is the low point at "88", Northwestern on the high end at "98".
FWIW, of the new Big Ten members (not included in that data, will fall in as Big ten members in next year's data) USC and Washington are above PSU, with UCLA and Oregon lower.

These are single year data - and will vary quite a bit year to year.
Someone who wanted to go pull up and average multi-year data averages.

 

[BostonNit]

NIL money obviously can pay for a lot of tutors.

 

[TiogaLion]

Athlete's have access to the Morgan Center, which offers all kinds of services such as Tutoring, Counseling, etc. No reason for any of them to not succeed if they possess the desire. Oh, if you want a laugh, or cry, take a look at the "Eligibility" requirements found in the link below.

| Morgan Academic Center

morgancenter.psu.edu

 

[LionJim]

Athlete's have access to the Morgan Center, which offers all kinds of services such as Tutoring, Counseling, etc. No reason for any of them to not succeed if they possess the desire. Oh, if you want a laugh, or cry, take a look at the "Eligibility" requirements found in the link below.

| Morgan Academic Center

morgancenter.psu.edu

At any university you need to have a specific gpa to graduate. That gpa is set by the faculty (or it was at my own school), and typically, give or take, it’s 2.0 or 2.25 with a 2.5 or so in your major. The eligibility requirements I read at the link you provided are in line with the graduation requirements. For example, at the end of summer semester of your second year you need to have passed 40% of the credit hours you need to graduate.

 

[PSUFTG]

The NCAA mins are (roughly, for all intents and purposes) 2.0 GPA and earn 20% of minimum required credits for a degree each year.
There may still be a few schools that have meaningfully higher requirements for student athletes (over and above the NCAA minimums) but I couldn't name one OTTOMH.

If you want to see any meaningful differentiation from school to school, you have to look beyond the "minimums", and look at the fields of study for student athletes.
Most schools have fields of study within the university that have far more demanding requirements (for example, at PSU nearly all majors in Business and Engineering schools have higher requirements - GPA requirements of 3.0, even 3.5 in some fields, and higher than the minimum credits (minimum is generally 120 credits) for a degree (some degrees require more in the line of 140 credits)
It has been discussed here before how some schools (even very prestigious schools) created entirely new programs for student athletes (Stanford and Michigan come to mind), so as to park student athletes into fields of study of far less rigor.

You want to know which schools still emphasize "academics" among student athletes? You have to take the time to dig out that fields of study information (fields of study - ie, what fields of study student athletes are enrolled in and earn their degrees in). That is where real differentiations lie.
The standard NCAA reporting is essentially worthless.