What You Need to Know:

• Georgia State had seven teams post a multiyear APR score above 985 in the latest release from the NCAA on Tuesday.
• All Georgia State programs well exceeded the minimum APR scores for postseason inclusion.
• As previously announced, both men and women's golf received perfect 1,000 multiyear APR scores.

ATLANTA – Georgia State student-athletes have once again performed well in the classroom according to NCAA statistics released Tuesday as part of the Academic Progress Rate (APR) update.
 
Among the highlights of the report were seven Panther squads posting multiyear APR averages above 985 – including a perfect score of 1000 by both the men and women's golf teams to rank within the top 10 percent of teams in the country.
 
Along with the perfect score for both golf programs, men's soccer (986), men's tennis (993), beach volleyball (996), women's tennis (991), and court volleyball (994) all exceed 985 in the annual report.
 
Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one retention point for staying in school and one eligibility point for being academically eligible. The total points for the team are divided by points possible and multiplied by 1,000 to create the APR score.

Per the NCAA, Division I student-athletes continue to achieve classroom success at record-high levels, earning an overall multiyear Academic Progress Rate of 983 for the third consecutive year.

Like the overall multiyear rate, which includes data from the 2015-16 academic year through the 2018-19 academic year, the multiyear rates for baseball, football, men's basketball and women's basketball were consistent or moved by a single point. Baseball was up 1 point to 977, football stayed at 964, men's basketball dropped 1 to 966 and women's basketball increased 1 to 983.

Since the Division I membership created the Academic Performance Program 15 years ago, more than 18,750 former student-athletes have earned APR points for their prior teams by returning to college and earning a degree after their eligibility expired. Of those, more than half (9,621) competed in football, baseball or basketball. These students typically do not count in graduation rates because they earn degrees outside the six-year window measured by both the federal graduation rate and the NCAA's Graduation Success Rate.

The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric in which scholarship student-athletes earn 1 point each term for remaining eligible and 1 point for staying in school or graduating. Schools that don't offer scholarships track their recruited student-athletes.

Every Division I sports team submits data to have its Academic Progress Rate calculated each academic year. The NCAA reports both single-year and four-year rates, on which penalties for poor academic performance are based. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable, member-provided data. APRs for each team, lists of teams receiving public recognition and those receiving sanctions are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.