Iowa State University Athletics
Iowa State Soars High In APR
05.19.2020 | Athletics
AMES, Iowa – The NCAA released its NCAA Academic Performance Rate (APR) metric today and Iowa State student-athletes made incredible achievements in the classroom according to the data.
For the second-straight season, Iowa State recorded one of its highest APR totals in school history with a 986.
This year's score ranked third in the Big 12 Conference, the second consecutive season where ISU ranked in the top-three in the league.
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.
Four sports (men's golf, women's cross country, women's track & field and swimming & diving) had perfect single-year scores and 12 Cyclone programs improved or maintained their overall ranking from a year ago.
The football program posted an APR (multi-year) composite of 979, demonstrating improvement for the fifth-straight season and tying for first in the Big 12. Football's APR tally joins 10 other teams at Iowa State that rank above the national average among their respective sport teams.
The NCAA officially announced top-performing teams (upper 10% nationally) on May 12. Four Cyclone teams were recognized for their outstanding performance in men's golf, swimming & diving, women's track & field and women's cross country.
