PRINCETON, N.J. -- For the 10th-straight year, The Ivy League leads the nation in NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) with a combined average over 98 percent across its eight institutions. 

This year’s report summarizes data for student-athletes who began their collegiate careers in 2013. 

Highlighting the League’s commitment to balancing world-class academics with national success in Division I athletics, the Ivy League claimed 63 national championships and saw six student-athletes earn prestigious Rhodes Scholarships during the six-year period that the GSR data was collected. 

Since the NCAA began including the Ivy League in its GSR data collection in 2010-11, the League has paced NCAA Division I conferences all 10 years. An Ivy League institution also leads all NCAA Division I institutions for the 10th-consecutive year, with Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale among nine schools with a GSR of 99. Princeton boasts a GSR of 98, with Brown and Penn at 97 and Cornell at 96. The Ivy League is the lone conference to have each of its member institutions boast an overall GSR of 96-or-better. 

Nationally, the NCAA Division I GSR reached 90 percent for the first time in 2020. 

“The commitment of Division I college athletes to the classroom is incredible, and we celebrate their academic success,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said. “To see 90% of student-athletes accomplish the ultimate goal of college graduation is a testament to their hard work and dedication. We must also support initiatives that help the remaining 10% of student-athletes earn their degrees. The NCAA applauds the achievements of student-athletes and will continue to support their goals in the classroom, in competition and in life.”

The NCAA did not collect graduation rate data for student-athletes who were not receiving athletically-related aid until 2004. League schools have been included in the GSR data since the six-year graduation rate data for those student-athletes who began college in 2004 became available.