A Record-Setting Year for Oklahoma State Graduation Success Rate

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State set a college report with an total rating of 88 on the NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for the 2015 freshman cohort, it was introduced at this time.
 
Of a doable 13 sports activities which are measured, OSU had eight with scores of 90 or higher for its finest displaying within the 18-year historical past of the GSR metric.
 
Cowboy Baseball and Cowgirl Golf logged good scores of 100. It marked the primary time that baseball had an ideal rating and the fourth consecutive yr with 100 for a Cowgirl Golf program that has achieved that feat in 11 of the final 15 years. OSU is the one Big 12 baseball staff with an ideal GSR rating this yr.
 
Football and baseball each set program data and wrestling, softball and ladies’s golf matched their all-time highs.
 
Other OSU applications with GSR scores within the 90s had been softball (96), soccer (95), ladies’s cross nation/monitor and discipline (94), ladies’s basketball (93) and males’s and ladies’s tennis, each of which got here in at 90. The Cowboy tennis staff rating led all Big 12 males’s tennis groups this yr.
 
Not counting the Cowgirl Golf program that held strong at 100, eight OSU applications confirmed enchancment of their GSR rating from the earlier yr, with probably the most vital enchancment coming from the Cowboy Football program that jumped from 74 to a program-record 82. Wrestling improved from 77 to 83, baseball from 95 to 100 and ladies’s cross nation/monitor and discipline from 89 to 94. Other enhancements got here from soccer, which was up three factors, ladies’s basketball and ladies’s tennis, each of which had been up two factors and males’s tennis, which improved by a degree. Softball and males’s and ladies’s golf all held regular from the earlier yr.
 
The information utilized in compiling the GSR relies on a six-year cycle, which implies the NCAA numbers launched at this time pertain to student-athletes who entered as freshmen for the 2015-16 tutorial yr. The information compiled this yr takes the first-year class from 2015, that means a 2015 freshman who graduated by 2021 can be added to the proportion of those that graduated.
 
The commencement charge is calculated by taking the variety of athletes who enrolled in that yr and evaluating it to the quantity who graduated inside six years. It does take transfers out and in of the varsity into consideration.