NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Atlantic 10 Conference student-athletes and institutions stayed on pace by equaling an Atlantic 10 record with a 94 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for the second straight year. The league also was close to the record for number of teams with a perfect 100 percent GSR with 118 programs at the top of the metric in the latest data reported by the NCAA Tuesday.
 
The 118 perfect programs is just below last year's record mark of 119. The league-wide 94 percent GSR once again ties the league record first set with the 2019 GSR report and equaled in both the 2021 and 2022 numbers, and places the A-10 in a tie for sixth place among all conferences.
 
Additionally, the A-10 ranked in a tie for fifth amongst all Division I conferences in the league’s Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) at 74 percent. While the FGR accounts for first-time, full-time freshmen entering in a given fall term while receiving athletically related financial aid, it does not take into account academically eligible student-athletes who transfer into or out of an institution and graduate with their cohort.
 
The Atlantic 10 tied for the second-highest rate in women's basketball with a 98 percent GSR, supported by nine teams with perfect scores. The A-10 also tied for the fifth-highest GSR in baseball with a rate of 94 percent as well as three perfect teams.
 
Davidson and St. Bonaventure had a league-high rate of 98 percent, followed by Fordham at 97 percent. La Salle, Richmond and Saint Louis shared the third-highest rate at 96 percent. Dayton, George Washington and Saint Joseph's recorded institutional rates of 95 percent. Davidson paced the A-10 behind 15 sponsored sports with a perfect 100 percent mark, followed by Massachusetts and St. Bonaventure with 10 each. Fordham, George Washington, La Salle Rhode Island, Saint Louis VCU had eight perfect programs each. Overall, 14 of the A-10’s 15 member institutions year boast a GSR at or above 90 percent and all but four institutions are above the national GSR average of 91 percent.
 
Women's soccer represented the highest number of perfect teams among all A-10 sports, with 11 schools earning perfect scores. There were 10 programs in women's tennis along with nine in women’s basketball, men’s soccer and men’s golf.
 
The GSR measures graduation over six years from first-time college enrollment. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors created the GSR in response to Division I college and university presidents who wanted data that more accurately reflected the mobility of college students than the federal graduation rate.