PRINCETON, N.J. -- For the 11th-straight year, the Ivy League leads the nation in NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) with a combined average of 98 percent across the league’s eight institutions. 

Highlighting the League’s commitment to balancing world-class academics with national success in Division I athletics, the Ivy League claimed 44 national championships and saw three student-athletes earn prestigious Rhodes Scholarships during the time 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 the 32 NCAA Division I conferences all 11 years.
 
An Ivy League institution also leads all NCAA Division I institutions for the 11th-consecutive year, with Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale among eight schools with a GSR of 99. Brown and Princeton boast GSRs of 98, while Cornell and Penn had a 96 GSR. 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 second consecutive year. The NCAA did not collect graduation rate data for student-athletes who were not receiving athletically-related aid until 2004. Ivies 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.