Iowa State University Athletics
Iowa State Scores High In APR
05.08.2019 | Athletics, Academic Services
AMES, Iowa – The NCAA released its NCAA Academic Performance Rate (APR) metric today and Iowa State student-athletes continued to rate high and achieve in the classroom according to the data.
Iowa State recorded one of its highest APR totals in school history with a 986.
This year's score, which is a composite score of all the sports sponsored by Iowa State University, ranked third in the Big 12 Conference.
The APR calculation, a team-based academic metric created by the NCAA, is a measurement of the academic eligibility and retention of student-athletes. The NCAA created it as its primary academic measure for student-athlete performance toward graduation.
The NCAA also uses each institution's overall APR score to annually distribute a portion of the millions of dollars of revenue generated by the NCAA Basketball Championship.
Iowa State University's score of 986 means the Cyclone student-athletes earned 98.6% of all available eligibility and retention points.
Three sports (men's golf, women's cross country and women's track & field) had perfect single-year scores and 12 Cyclone programs improved or maintained their overall ranking from a year ago.
The football program posted the third-best APR tally in the Big 12 (978), demonstrating improvement for the fourth-straight season.
The NCAA officially announced top-performing teams (upper 10% nationally) on May 1st.
