KU releases graduation report

By J-W Staff Reports     Sep 22, 2007

Keeping with its policy, Kansas University’s athletic department released its annual graduation report Friday – a couple of weeks before the NCAA will release the rates of all member institutions.

This year’s report monitors those student athletes who entered KU in the fall of 2000, as well as a four-year average of those who entered in the fall of 1997, ’98, ’99 and 2000. Students are allowed six years to graduate in the study.

KU graduated 70 percent of its student athletes who entered KU between fall of 1997 and fall of 2000. KU graduated 63 percent of its student athletes who entered in the fall of 2000. In comparison, 59 percent of all KU students entering in the fall of 2000 graduated in six years.

KU men’s basketball graduated 100 percent of those entering in the fall of 2000 and 45 percent in the four-year study. Football graduated 50 percent of those who entered in 2000, 51 percent over four years.

“Myles Brand (NCAA president) established standards he hoped all would achieve, and that is a 70 percent graduation-success rate. We’re pleased we met that,” KU assistant athletic director Paul Buskirk said. “Would we be ecstatic if we could get it to 100 percent? Yes. We want every student who enters KU to graduate.”

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