Graduation+Rates+for+Basketball+Players

=Graduation Rates for Basketball Players Trail Those of Students in General= November 16, 2010, 6:01 am The graduation rate for men’s basketball players in the NCAA’s Division I is 20 percentage points lower than the rate for full-time male students in general, according to a new report from the [|College Sport Research Institute] at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The gap is even greater in the top-ranking conferences—30.8 percentage points. Women’s basketball players fared better in the institute’s report, but their graduation rate still fell below that of their peers. The gap was 6.2 percentage points on average, and 14.6 percentage points in the top-tier conferences. The institute’s calculations are based on federal data for students who started college from 1999 through 2002, the latest data available. This entry was posted in [|Uncategorized]. Bookmark the [|permalink].