The NCAA has reported the Division II academic rates have remained at or near their highest levels in 2023. The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) remains among the top conferences in NCAA Division II for academic success. The GLVC is fourth in Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) at 68 percent and tied for fifth in Academic Success Rate (ASR) at 84 percent.
UIS is one of twelve GLVC member institutions to exceed the national four-year ASR of 76 percent, as well as one of thirteen with a FGR above the average of 60 percent.
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| SCHOOL |
ASR |
FGR |
| Drury |
85 |
59 |
| Illinois Springfield |
88 |
63 |
| Indianapolis |
81 |
69 |
| Lewis |
93 |
73 |
| Maryville |
90 |
71 |
| McKendree |
78 |
68 |
| Missouri S&T |
78 |
72 |
| Missouri-St. Louis |
82 |
64 |
| Quincy |
80 |
60 |
| Rockhurst |
94 |
82 |
| Southwest Baptist |
70 |
50 |
| Truman State |
91 |
81 |
| William Jewell |
88 |
65 |
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The NCAA developed the Division II ASR at the request of college and university presidents who believed the federal graduation rate was outdated. Division II's ASR data includes student-athletes who transfer into a school and removes student-athletes who left the school in good academic standing. In addition, given the partial-scholarship financial aid model of Division II, the ASR data includes student-athletes not on athletically related financial aid. The result is that ASR captures more than 30,000 nonscholarship student-athletes who were enrolled in the four years covered in the most recent data.Â
Even when using the less-inclusive federal rate, Division II student-athletes outperform the general student body by 7 percentage points. The federal rate for Division II student-athletes remained the same, with the student-athlete rate at 60%, while the federal rate for the general student body rose 1 percentage point to 53%.
The NCAA has recognized notable increases in ASR overall (from 69% to 77%), as well as for Black men (from 42% to 51%), Black women (from 61% to 76%), Hispanic/Latinx men (48% to 66%) and Hispanic/Latinx women (63% to 80%).
Additional ASR increases reflect improvements for two-year transfer student-athletes (from 57% to 73%) and four-year transfer student-athletes (from 66% to 77%) over the past 10 years.
NCAA Release
GLVC Release
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