Temple University Athletics
Temple Athletics' Average Multi-Year APR Leads American Athletic Conference
5.10.17 | General
PHILADELPHIA - Temple Athletics and academic success have become synonymous, and the newest data released by the NCAA of its Academic Performance Rate (APR) speaks to the success the Owls have had in the classroom.
With an average multi-year APR of 991, Temple ranks 12th in the nation among Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institutions, and leads all full members of the American Athletic Conference (Navy is an affiliate member for football only). Temple also remains one of just 17 FBS institutions with all sports having multi-year APR's of 970 or greater.
"I am really so proud of our student-athletes and their hard work in the classroom,' said Temple University Director of Athletics Dr. Patrick Kraft. "Academic success has become the standard for Temple Athletics, and each year our young men and women raise the bar even higher. This is a credit to not only their hard work, but the efforts by Justin Miller and his academic support team as well as our coaches. It truly is a team effort."
The new data comes on the heels of a record seven Temple athletic teams having been publicly recognized for their multi-year APR. Men's tennis was recognized for the fourth straight year while women's tennis and men's cross country garnered the honor for a second year in a row. Men's and women's basketball, women's cross country and women's soccer were also honored by the NCAA.
Eleven Temple University athletic programs (men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's tennis, women's fencing, women's gymnastics, women's lacrosse, women's soccer and women's volleyball) had perfect 1,000 APR scores for the 2015-16 academic year, marking the fifth consecutive academic year with 10 or more perfect scores.  Â
The Owls' football team, coming off an American Athletic Conference Championship, is one of only two programs (Purdue University) to never show a decline in its APR figure since the metric was formulated in 2004.
Fourteen of Temple's teams rank in the top five in their respective sports in their conferences, including seven teams that were publicly recognized last week by the NCAA and ranked first (men's cross country, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's cross country, women's rowing and women's soccer).
The 2015-16 school year marked the first time in department history that Temple's average multi-year score eclipsed 990.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester 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.
Temple's APR success is one of many major academic highlights of the 2016-17 academic year.
• Owl student-athletes combined for a 3.10 cumulative GPA for the fall semester. It marked a record fourth consecutive semester with a combined GPA at 3.10 or greater and a 10th consecutive semester above a 3.00.
• Fifteen of Temple's 19 varsity sports posted a combined fall semester GPA above a 3.00 with women's cross country earning the highest recorded semester GPA in department history of 3.70.
• Overall, 15 programs earned a cumulative GPA of better than 3.0, led by women's volleyball (3.58) and men's tennis (3.46). Twelve of those programs combined for GPAs above a 3.40.
• Temple student-athletes posted an 88 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR), which sets a school-record for the seventh consecutive year. Temple also posted its highest Federal Graduation Rate (71%) since 2010.
• Temple's overall GSR number is tied for 24th among all Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools. Temple Football posted a GSR of 86, which is tied for 14th with Nebraska and Miami (Fla.). Temple is also one of 11 FBS schools in the country who has all teams over 77 in GSR. The other 10 schools are Alabama, Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Stanford, Tulane, UCF, Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech.
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With an average multi-year APR of 991, Temple ranks 12th in the nation among Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institutions, and leads all full members of the American Athletic Conference (Navy is an affiliate member for football only). Temple also remains one of just 17 FBS institutions with all sports having multi-year APR's of 970 or greater.
"I am really so proud of our student-athletes and their hard work in the classroom,' said Temple University Director of Athletics Dr. Patrick Kraft. "Academic success has become the standard for Temple Athletics, and each year our young men and women raise the bar even higher. This is a credit to not only their hard work, but the efforts by Justin Miller and his academic support team as well as our coaches. It truly is a team effort."
The new data comes on the heels of a record seven Temple athletic teams having been publicly recognized for their multi-year APR. Men's tennis was recognized for the fourth straight year while women's tennis and men's cross country garnered the honor for a second year in a row. Men's and women's basketball, women's cross country and women's soccer were also honored by the NCAA.
Eleven Temple University athletic programs (men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's tennis, women's fencing, women's gymnastics, women's lacrosse, women's soccer and women's volleyball) had perfect 1,000 APR scores for the 2015-16 academic year, marking the fifth consecutive academic year with 10 or more perfect scores.  Â
The Owls' football team, coming off an American Athletic Conference Championship, is one of only two programs (Purdue University) to never show a decline in its APR figure since the metric was formulated in 2004.
Fourteen of Temple's teams rank in the top five in their respective sports in their conferences, including seven teams that were publicly recognized last week by the NCAA and ranked first (men's cross country, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's cross country, women's rowing and women's soccer).
The 2015-16 school year marked the first time in department history that Temple's average multi-year score eclipsed 990.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester 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.
Temple's APR success is one of many major academic highlights of the 2016-17 academic year.
• Owl student-athletes combined for a 3.10 cumulative GPA for the fall semester. It marked a record fourth consecutive semester with a combined GPA at 3.10 or greater and a 10th consecutive semester above a 3.00.
• Fifteen of Temple's 19 varsity sports posted a combined fall semester GPA above a 3.00 with women's cross country earning the highest recorded semester GPA in department history of 3.70.
• Overall, 15 programs earned a cumulative GPA of better than 3.0, led by women's volleyball (3.58) and men's tennis (3.46). Twelve of those programs combined for GPAs above a 3.40.
• Temple student-athletes posted an 88 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR), which sets a school-record for the seventh consecutive year. Temple also posted its highest Federal Graduation Rate (71%) since 2010.
• Temple's overall GSR number is tied for 24th among all Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools. Temple Football posted a GSR of 86, which is tied for 14th with Nebraska and Miami (Fla.). Temple is also one of 11 FBS schools in the country who has all teams over 77 in GSR. The other 10 schools are Alabama, Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Stanford, Tulane, UCF, Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech.
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