Pittsburgh, Pa. – A total of 11 programs as part of the Duquesne University Department of Athletics earned a perfect score of 1,000 on the latest multi-year progress rate (APR) released Tuesday by the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA).
Posting a perfect APR score of 1,000 for the 2022-23 academic year for the Dukes include men's basketball, women's bowling, men's and women's cross country, women's lacrosse, women's rowing, women's soccer, men's and women's tennis and men's and women's track & field. In all, 14 Duquesne athletic programs produced a score of 979 or better.
Duquesne posted a multi-year average APR of 989, five points above the national average and matching the institution's all-time best mark from 2020, as the NCAA celebrates 20 years of Division I academic success. The scores include data from 2019-20 through the 2022-23 academic years.
The women's bowling program for the Dukes posted a perfect 1,000 multi-year rate from 2019 to 2023, marking the sixth consecutive year the team has notched a perfect multi-year rate. Each of the 16 varsity sports at Duquesne posted a multi-year rate of 960 or better, as included among the top performers with bowling is women's soccer (998), men's cross country (995) and women's track & field (994).
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Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in Division I, the APR holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term. The APR includes both retention at an institution and academic eligibility in its calculation.
The success for Duquesne in the latest APR continues a trend of academic excellence, as in December of 2023 the department matched a school record for
Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 91 percent of student-athletes graduating within a six-year window after enrolling as freshmen in 2016.
As a department, the Dukes finished with a
3.43 grade point average (GPA) during the 2024 spring semester among its 18 intercollegiate teams after recording a
3.42 department GPA during the fall of 2023.
In the latest multi-year APR report for the NCAA, women's indoor and outdoor track & field are scored as one program while DU's first-year triathlon team and women's acrobatic and tumbling and women's golf programs, which begin competition during the 2024-25 school year, are not included.
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