APR Success Continues Among UTC Athletics Programs

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (May 6, 2025) — The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletics department posted another strong Academic Progress Rate (APR) score report, according to the annual information released by the NCAA offices this week.

According to the most recent NCAA report on the 2023-24 cycle, eight different Mocs programs earned perfect 1000 APR scores which matches the most in single cycle for the department since the 2020-21 report. The eight perfect APR scores include two men’s programs (basketball and tennis) and six women’s programs (basketball, cross country, golf, softball, track & field, and volleyball).

Each academic year, every Division I sports team’s APR is calculated using a simple and consistent formula. Scholarship student-athletes can earn 1 point for staying on course for a degree in their chosen major and 1 point for being retained (or graduating) at the end of each academic term. For schools that do not offer athletics scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked. 

Chattanooga saw four programs improve its four-year average scores including men’s tennis, women’s cross country, women’s track & field and volleyball, who increased its four-year score a department-best 10 points (994) this cycle. Six Mocs programs currently sit above national averages compared to its peers including football (970/958), men’s basketball (976/968), men’s tennis (1000/987), men’s cross country (985/984), softball (991/988) and volleyball (994/990).

A full list of APRs for each team, including the Top 10, can be accessed by using the APR searchable database. The most recent APRs are multiyear rates based on scores from the 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years. UTC’s full APR scoring report can be found below.

Inside the 2025 NCAA APR Release

Division I student-athletes continue to achieve academic success: The national four-year Academic Progress Rate for Division I teams remained steady at 984 for a fourth consecutive year. National sport averages either increased or held steady, as well. Men’s basketball remained at 968, with baseball (979), football (964) and women’s basketball (982) all increasing by 1 point from last year’s reported APR scores. 

Additionally, many former student-athletes are returning to the classroom to complete their degrees after exhausting their athletics eligibility. In the past 21 years of the Academic Performance Program, nearly 22,000 student-athletes have gone back to school to earn their degrees and APR points for their former team. For football (6,428), baseball (2,416), and men’s (1,657) and women’s basketball (761), more than 11,000 former student-athletes have returned to college and earned degrees. These student-athletes are typically not counted in the federal graduation rate or Graduation Success Rate calculations. 

This is the fourth consecutive year of publicly reported APRs after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the Division I board approved the release of APR scores but voted to continue the suspension of program penalties. Normal Academic Performance Program operations with program penalties and loss of access to postseason competition were originally scheduled to resume in spring 2024, but the Division I Committee on Academics decided not to enforce the loss of access to postseason competition for teams that scored lower than 930 last year, instead offering a conditional waiver due to lingering impacts of the pandemic.

UTC’s APR Scores 

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