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UW Scores High Marks In Academic Progress Rate
Story Links SEATTLE – The NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) report this week, showing University of Washington student-athletes continuing to excel with a 996 single year rate and a multi-year rate of 992. This marks the 12th consecutive year that Washington has scored above 980 combining all […]
SEATTLE – The NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) report this week, showing University of Washington student-athletes continuing to excel with a 996 single year rate and a multi-year rate of 992. This marks the 12th consecutive year that Washington has scored above 980 combining all programs.
“UW Athletics continues to score at the highest levels of the APR metric,” said UW Director of Athletics Pat Chun. “Success at a world-class institution like ours requires true dedication and hard work. Our student-athletes, along with our coaches and academic support staff, have built an environment that promotes academic achievement.”
Washington’s four-year rate of 992 remains above the national average of 984. The latest single-year APR metric has 16 UW programs posting a perfect 1,000 score.
Additional recent academic successes for the department include a record-high Graduation Success Rate of 94 from fall of 2024, and a department-wide GPA of 3.49 from the 2025 winter quarter, the highest-ever department grade point average for a quarter, excluding COVID-specific quarters.
Seven UW teams were recognized for having a multi-year APR score in the top 10-percent of all programs nationally – men’s soccer, women’s basketball, women’s golf, gymnastics, beach volleyball, women’s soccer, and volleyball. The seven top 10% programs is up from five in 2024.
Six programs currently boast perfect 1,000 multi-year scores: women’s basketball, beach volleyball, women’s golf, gymnastics, women’s soccer, and volleyball. Those six programs also rank No. 1 in the Big Ten Conference. Men’s soccer is second amongst Big Ten schools, and women’s rowing ranks third.
APR provides a real-time look at a team’s academic success each quarter by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team’s academic performance. The APR scores released today reflect academic rates from the 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years.