NCAA Release

Now in its 11th year of existence, the Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence is awarded to Division II schools that have achieved an Academic Success Rate of 90% or higher.

University of the Sciences was one of 43 schools to receive the award this year, and is now one of just 10 schools to earn the honor in each of the 11 years it has been given out.  

Earlier this academic year it was announced that USciences was one of two Division II schools in the top-15 of ASR for the 15th year in a row.

The NCAA annually releases the Division II ASR, a model developed at the request of presidents of Division II institutions to overcome inadequacies with the Federal Graduation Rate (FGR). The FGR only takes into account student-athletes that receive athletic scholarships, while ASR data includes student-athletes not on athletically related financial aid given the partial scholarship financial aid model of Division II.

The result is that ASR captures more than 31,000 non-scholarship student-athletes who were enrolled in the four years covered in the most recent data from 2011 through 2014. In addition, the data takes transfer students into account and removes likely transfers-out who left the school in good academic standing.

USciences' Year-by-Year ASR

2000 Cohort – 100%

2001 – 94

2002 – 96

2003 – 99

2004 – 96

2005 – 97

2006 – 96

2007 – 97

2008 – 99

2009 – 97

2010 – 97

2011 – 94

2012 – 95

2013 – 93

2014 – 93