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The University of Notre Dame leads all NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision institutions with a 99 Graduation Success Rate (GSR), as released by the NCAA on Wednesday, November 20. The 99 rating edges Boston College, Northwestern and Stanford, all with 98 ratings, among football competing schools in the country. The data utilized in the rating is for the 2014-15 to 2017-18 freshman cohorts for all NCAA Division I institutions
Notre Dame has been among the nation’s top three in GSR among FBS institutions for 18 consecutive years and has led the nation in 16 of those 18 instances. Eighteen of Notre Dame’s 22 men’s and women’s sports rated by the NCAA earned perfect 100 scores
Programs that earned a 100 rating from 2014-17 include baseball, men’s basketball, men’s cross country/track and field, men’s fencing, men’s golf, men’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, men’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, softball, volleyball, women’s basketball, women’s rowing, women’s golf, women’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving and women’s tennis.
Among all Division I institutions across the country, Notre Dame led the way as well with its 99 overall rating, joining Columbia, Harvard, Santa Clara and Yale who all compiled a 99 GSR rating.
