RICHMOND, Ky. – As the 2023 Fall semester ends, it has been released that Eastern Kentucky posted five programs with perfect Graduation Success Rate (GSR) with a mark of 88% as reported in the latest release by the NCAA.
 
The latest figures include the cohort that entered college during the 2016-17 academic year, while the four-class average includes student-athletes who entered college from 2013-14 through 2016-17 academic years.

Of the programs in the ASUN, EKU's baseball, men's golf, women's golf, men's tennis, and women's tennis recorded perfect GSR numbers.

The Colonels baseball program was the only baseball program in the conference to achieve the accomplishment.

Along with EKU's five programs with perfect GSR, the Colonels had four programs at 90 or above in men's basketball, men's cross-country/track & field, women's cross-country/track & field, and women's soccer.
 
Each year, the NCAA publicly announces the GSR of all Division I institutions. The graduation-rate data are based on a six-year cohort prescribed by the U.S. Department of Education, the most recent version including freshmen scholarship student-athletes that entered college in 2016.
 
The 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. The federal rate counts any student who leaves a school as an academic failure, no matter whether he or she enrolls at another school. Also, the federal rate does not recognize students who enter school as transfer students.
 
The GSR formula removes from the rate student-athletes who leave school while academically eligible and includes student-athletes who transfer to a school after initially enrolling elsewhere. This calculation makes it a completer and more accurate look at student-athlete success.