Dec. 3, 2006
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The University of Iowa football team – which is currently preparing to play Texas on Dec. 30 in the 2006 Alamo Bowl in San Antonio – has the ninth best graduation rate for student-athletes in the sport of football among the 64* schools that will be represented in the 32 bowl games to be played in the coming weeks.
Iowa has a graduation rate of 72 percent for the group of student-athletes who enrolled in the University of Iowa in the fall semester of 1999, according to information the University of Iowa provided the NCAA as required by NCAA Bylaw 30.1 and the Federal Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act.
This is the most recent graduation class for which the NCAA-required six years of information is available.
Iowa’s 72 percent graduate rate includes a graduation rate of 86 percent for “Black” student-athletes, 67 percent for “White” student-athletes and a 50 percent graduation rate for “Hispanic” student-athletes.
The graduation rate for all students who entered the UI in the fall of 1999 is 66 percent. The graduation rate for all UI student-athletes is 71 percent. With respect to all data regarding student-athletes, the graduation rate includes only those students-athletes who received athletics aid from the UI for any period of time during the 1999-00 year. The NCAA defines aid as a grant, scholarship tuition waiver or other assistance from a college or university that is awarded on the basis of a student’s athletic ability.
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“This points to success in three areas of our football program and our athletics program.
“First, it speaks to the determination of our football staff to recruit students who are as committed to academic excellence as they are athletic excellence. Second, it speaks to the work of the staff in our Athletic Student Services unit and the commitment that they have consistently demonstrated to providing the appropriate guidance and support to our student-athletes. “Third, and most importantly, it speaks to the commitment of the student-athletes themselves. As always, numbers don’t lie and these indicate that you can be successful both on the playing field and in the classroom.” Gary A. Barta, UI Director of Athletics
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“This points to success in three areas of our football program and our athletics program,” said UI Director of Athletics Gary A. Barta.
“First, it speaks to the determination of our football staff to recruit students who are as committed to academic excellence as they are athletic excellence. Second, it speaks to the work of the staff in our Athletic Student Services unit and the commitment that they have consistently demonstrated to providing the appropriate guidance and support to our student-athletes.
“Third, and most importantly, it speaks to the commitment of the student-athletes themselves. As always, numbers don’t lie and these indicate that you can be successful both on the playing field and in the classroom.”
Iowa ranks second among the six Big Ten Conference teams that will be participating in a 2006-07 bowl game. Penn State tops the list of league schools, ranking third with a graduation rate of 83 percent. Michigan ranks 13th (68 percent), Minnesota 23rd (59 percent), Ohio State 27th (56 percent), Wisconisn 37th (50 percent) and Purdue 44th (44 percent).
Boston College ranks first among the 64* bowl-bound college football teams with a graduate rate of 92 percent. BC is the only school to have a graduation rate above 90 percent. Nebraska ranks second (84 percent), Notre Dame fourth (81 percent) and Central Michigan and Wake Forest fifth (78 percent).
*–The graduation rate for student-athletes who participate in the sport of football at Navy was not available in the report provided the NCAA.
NCAA Graduation Rates*
2006 Bowl Bound Football Programs
| Football | All Student | ||
| Grad Rate | Grad Rate | ||
| 1 – Boston College | 92 | 91 | |
| 2 – Nebraska | 84 | 63 | |
| 3 – Penn State | 83 | 84 | |
| 4 – Notre Dame | 81 | 95 | |
| 5 – Central Michigan | 78 | 55 | |
| Wake Forest | 78 | 88 | |
| 7 – South Florida | 77 | 48 | |
| 8 – Northern Illinois | 73 | 53 | |
| 9 – Iowa | 72 | 66 | |
| 10 – Ohio | 71 | 71 | |
| 11 – Clemson | 70 | 75 | |
| 12 – Southern Miss | 69 | 46 | |
| 13 – East Carolina | 68 | 54 | |
| Michigan | 68 | 87 | |
| 15 – Western Michigan | 67 | 54 | |
| Brigham Young | 67 | 70 | |
| 17 – Arizona State | 67 | 55 | |
| 18 – Louisville | 63 | 37 | |
| 19 – Texas Tech | 63 | 55 | |
| 20 – Auburn | 61 | 62 | |
| 21 – Alabama | 60 | 63 | |
| Oregon State | 60 | 61 | |
| 23 – Minnesota | 59 | 61 | |
| 59 | 87 | ||
| 25 – Missouri | 58 | 66 | |
| 26 – Boise State | 57 | 28 | |
| 27 – Rice | 56 | 90 | |
| Ohio State | 56 | 68 | |
| 29 – Kansas State | 56 | 56 | |
| 30 – Maryland | 55 | 77 | |
| Hawaii | 55 | 51 | |
| 32 – Oklahoma State | 54 | 59 | |
| 33 – Miami (Fla.) | 53 | 71 | |
| Virginia Tech | 53 | 76 | |
| Southern Cal | 53 | 83 | |
| 36 – Arkansas | 52 | 56 | |
| 37 – Texas Christian | 50 | 69 | |
| Utah | 50 | 43 | |
| Troy | 50 | 51 | |
| Wisconsin | 50 | 77 | |
| 41 – South Carolina | 47 | 65 | |
| 42 – Rutgers | 46 | 71 | |
| 43 – Tulsa | 44 | 61 | |
| West Virginia | 44 | 55 | |
| Purdue | 44 | 66 | |
| Texas A&M | 44 | 77 | |
| 47 – Middle Tennessee | 42 | 40 | |
| Louisiana State | 42 | 57 | |
| 49 – Georgia Tech | 41 | 76 | |
| 50 – Oregon | 38 | 63 | |
| Florida State | 38 | 66 | |
| Texas | 38 | 75 | |
| 53 – California | 33 | 87 | |
| Houston | 33 | 40 | |
| Cincinnati | 33 | 49 | |
| Georgia | 33 | 73 | |
| 57 – Nevada | 32 | 52 | |
| Florida | 32 | 79 | |
| 59 – Tennessee | 31 | 57 | |
| 60 – New Mexico | 29 | 41 | |
| 61 – Oklahoma | 27 | 56 | |
| 62 – Kentucky | 22 | 60 | |
| San Jose State | 20 | 41 | |
| * — Navy | NA | 86 |