College Football Study: Graduation Gap Increases

The adjusted graduation gap between NCAA Division I football players and the general full-time male student body continues to be sizable, particularly for Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conferences. That's among the numerous findings in the second annual installment of the College Sport Research Institute's NCAA Division-I Football Adjusted Graduation Gap report, released Thursday.

The introduced this first-of-its-kind report last year. The latest installment utilizes the published four-class average graduation rates for the 2000-2003 cohort (the most recent available) and removes data related to part-time students. The result is a comparison of how football players, who are also full-time students, stack up against the general full-time male student population. Overall, NCAA Division I football players graduated at a rate of 54 percent during that four-year period at the beginning of the new millennium - 13 percentage points behind the male student population at large. The gap is even greater when comparing FBS football players to FCS football players.

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