-INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. --- Ten Green Bay athletic programs posted perfect graduation success rates from the cohort years 2007-10, while all 16 athletic programs finished above the national average among non-football Division I NCAA schools, as announced by the NCAA office on Wednesday afternoon. Women's basketball, women's cross country, women's Nordic skiing, softball, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis and volleyball all posted perfect graduation success rates for the Green Bay's women's programs, while men's golf, men's Nordic skiing and men's tennis posted perfect rates on the men's side.
 
Men's cross country, men's Nordic skiing and men's tennis were perfect on the men's side. Along with those perfect graduation success rates, programs including softball, men's basketball, men's golf, men's soccer and men's swimming all finished above their respective GSR national average.
 
Additionally, the Green Bay student-athlete graduation success rate was 94 percent for the 2010-11 cohort, while the overall student graduation rate was 49 percent. GB student-athletes posted a department-wide 3.39 GPA in Spring 2017, marking the 35^th-consecutive semester above a 3.0 GPA.
 
Each year, the NCAA publicly announces the Graduation Success Rate of all Division I institutions, along with a similar Division II Academic Success Rate. According to the most recent Graduation Success Rate data, 82 percent of Division I freshmen scholarship student-athletes who entered college in 2005 earned a degree. In Division II, 73 percent of freshmen student-athletes who entered college in 2005 graduated. The graduation-rate data are based on a six-year cohort prescribed by the U.S. Department of Education.
 
The NCAA developed the Division I Graduation Success Rate in response to college and university presidents who wanted graduation data that more accurately reflect the mobility among all college students today. Both the Graduation Success Rate and the Academic Success Rate account for the academic outcomes of student-athletes who transfer from one institution to another. The rate compiled using the federal government's methodology does not count transfers in and counts transfers out as graduation failures. Regardless of which rate is used, student-athletes are shown to graduate at a higher rate than their peers in the general student body.
 
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