Iowa State University
5-30-96

Contacts:
Steve McDonnell, Student Athlete Services, (515) 294-9324
Tom Kroeschell, Athletic Media Relations, (515) 294-3372
Steve Jones, News Service, (515) 294-4778

IOWA STATE'S 4-YEAR STUDENT-ATHLETE

GRADUATION RATE LEADS BIG 12 CONFERENCE

AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State's four-year student-athlete graduation rate leads the Big 12 Conference, according to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) figures.

Sixty-one percent of ISU's male and female student-athletes over the past four years graduated within six years of entering ISU. The figures only include student-athletes who received athletic scholarships and entered ISU as freshmen from the 1985-86 school year through 1988-89.

Baylor is second in the conference with a four-year average of 57 percent and Nebraska and Missouri are tied for third at 55 percent.

At ISU, 317 student-athletes receiving athletic aid entered as freshmen from 1985-86 to 1988-89, and 193 (61 percent) graduated within six years.

The four-year Big 12 graduation percentages do not include each university's 1996 graduation rate. The 1996 graduation rate reports, which will include new four-year figures, will be released by the NCAA in mid summer. 

Big 12 universities four-year NCAA graduation rates


For male and female student-athletes entering school 1985-86 
through 1988-89


 1. Iowa State     61%
 2. Baylor         57%
 3. Missouri       55%
 4. Nebraska       55%
 5. Kansas         53%
 6. Colorado       52%
 7. Kansas State   50%
 8. Texas          49%
 9. Texas A&M      48%
10. Oklahoma       47%
11. Texas Tech     44%
12. Oklahoma State 36%