Statistics for the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) released Wednesday by the NCAA indicated an 89% GSR for Wichita State.  The GSR rate for the previous five years were 89% (2017-18), 90% (2016-17), 89% (2015-16), 90% (2014-15), and 87% (2013-14).
 
Nine Wichita State programs registered at least an 85 percent GSR, with five programs achieving a perfect 100 percent.  Women's tennis posted a perfect GSR score for the fifteenth year in a row, meaning all student-athletes either graduated or left the program in good academic standing.  The men's golf team posted a perfect GSR score for the ninth year in a row.   The softball team posted a perfect four-year GSR score for the fourth year in a row.  The men's tennis team posted a perfect score for the third year in a row.  This year's numbers reflect a four-year average for students who entered college from 2015-16 through 2018-19.
 
The athletic department has achieved a GSR score of 80 percent or above every year for the last seventeen years.  Nine of 11 Wichita State programs with scores posted 85 percent GSR rates or higher and seven out of 11 Wichita State programs posted scores of 90 percent GSR rates or higher.
 
This year marks the 34th release of institutional graduation rates since Federal Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act legislation was passed in 1990.  In 2005, the NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance implemented the initial release of the GSR in order to more accurately assess the academic success of student-athletes.