INDIANAPOLIS – Loyola University Maryland student-athletes again posted one of the best NCAA Graduation Success Rates in NCAA Division I, ranking fourth amongst the 357 schools in this year's report.
 
The university's GSR has ranked in the top six nationally in all 21 years of the report's existence; the school has been in the top 98 or 99 percentile each year, and the Greyhounds have had a GSR of 95 percent or higher each year.
 
Loyola's 96 percent overall GSR ranks first among schools from the State of Maryland.
 
Eight of the Greyhounds' teams measured in the report had scores of 100 percent, and Loyola student-athletes cumulatively achieved a 96 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) score in the data compiled from the 2015-2018 cohort that makes up this year's report.
 
A full database of GSR results is available from the NCAA.
 
"Loyola student-athletes continue to demonstrate impressive academic outcomes in all of our sport programs," said Donna M. Woodruff, associate vice president and director of athletics. "With a graduation success rate that again recognizes Loyola among the top institutions in the nation, we congratulate our student-athletes, faculty, and administrators for supporting and reaching the highest standards of excellence for our student-athletes in their academic and athletic journeys at Loyola."
 
Loyola attained 100 percent scores for men's basketball, men's cross country, men's soccer, women's basketball, women's cross country and track and field, women's lacrosse, women's soccer and women's tennis.
 
The NCAA developed the Graduation Success Rate as part of its academic reform initiative to more accurately assess the academic success of student-athletes. The GSR also accounts for midyear enrollees and is calculated for every sport, which increases the total number of student-athletes tracked for graduation by more than 37 percent over the federal version.
 
Under the calculation, institutions are not penalized for outgoing transfer students who leave in good academic standing. Instead, the outgoing transfers are passed to the receiving institution's Graduation Success Rate cohort.