MIAMI – FIU Athletics boasted a total of 10 sport programs that posted perfect yearly scores and six programs with perfect four-year scores, in the annual release of the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate (APR), which was announced on Tuesday.
FIU had all 16 athletic programs post above the required multi-year score of 930. Additionally, nine of the 16 programs posted multi-year APR scores of 985 or higher.
The baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, women's cross country, women's golf, softball, beach volleyball, women's swimming & diving, women's tennis and women's track & field programs each posted perfect APR yearly scores of 1,000 in the 2022-23 edition of the report.
Women's golf posted a perfect score for the 13th consecutive reporting of APR, while women's tennis and women's indoor volleyball have tabbed a perfect mark for the last four years and women's cross country has posted perfect totals for each of the last three seasons.
Men's cross country, women's cross country, women's golf, women's swimming & diving, women's tennis and women's track & field each posted a perfect four-year APR score in the most recent report.
A total of nine teams beat their sport's annual multi-year national average to further FIU's commitment to academic excellence.
The nine FIU programs to best the national average for their sports included men's basketball, men's cross country, men's soccer, men's track & field, women's cross country, women's golf, women's swimming & diving, women's tennis and women's track & field.
The women's track and men's cross country programs finished 17 points ahead of its sport's national average to lead the way at FIU.
In addition, 14 FIU programs matched or improved their one-year score from the last year's APR release.
The 2024 report released by the NCAA features a four-year compilation of APR data from the 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years.
Each academic year, every Division I sports team across the country calculates its APR using a simple and consistent formula. Each term, scholarship student-athletes can earn one (1) point for remaining eligible and one (1) point for staying in school or graduating. For schools that do not offer scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked.
The Academic Performance Program has established an essential framework for academic excellence. The program provides measurable goals to ensure schools are fulfilling their commitment of equipping student-athletes with the tools and resources necessary to achieve academic success.
Throughout the past 20 years, 21,365 former student-athletes have returned to the classroom after exhausting their athletics eligibility to complete degrees and earn APR points for their former team.
Nearly 11,000 of these individuals returning to graduate were former football, baseball, and men's and women's basketball student-athletes. These student-athletes are typically not counted as graduates in the federal graduation rate or Graduation Success Rate calculations.
FIU Academic Progress Rate (APR) Report
Men's Sports – Multi-year Rate (four-year average)
Baseball – 956
Basketball – 973
Cross Country – 1000
Football – 952
Soccer – 990
Track & Field – 978
Women's Sports – Multi-year Rate (four-year average)
Basketball – 972
Beach Volleyball – 988
Cross Country – 1000
Golf – 1000
Softball – 987
Soccer – 984
Swimming & Diving – 1000
Tennis – 1000
Track & Field – 1000
Volleyball – 984
Men's Sports – Single-Year Score (2022-22)
Baseball – 1000
Basketball – 1000
Football – 987
Soccer – 985
Track & Field – 972
Women's Sports – Single-Year Score (2022-23)
Basketball – 1000
Beach Volleyball – 1000
Cross Country – 1000
Golf – 1000
Softball – 1000
Soccer – 990
Swimming & Diving – 1000
Tennis – 1000
Track & Field – 1000
Volleyball – 951
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