

Men’s golf made the biggest gain in APR, increasing its multi-year rate by 14 points from last year.

Men’s cross country, men’s tennis, women’s golf, women’s gymnastics, women’s softball and women’s volleyball all earned a score of 1,000 for the four-year period. Six Razorback programs posted a perfect multi-year rate. Congratulations to our student-athletes and thank you to our coaches, staff and all those contributing to our mission of building champions and Razorbacks for life.” These outstanding young men and women are demonstrating that academics and athletics success can be achieved in tandem. “Student-athletes in all 19 of our sports programs are not only exceeding the APR benchmark, but they are also setting program records along the way.

“Razorback student-athletes continue to perform at a championship level both on the field and court as well as in the classroom,” Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Hunter Yurachek said.

The APR is based on academic eligibility and retention of student-athletes in each athletic program. This report’s multiyear scores are based on the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-22 academic years. The NCAA combines APR scores for indoor and outdoor track and field. The average is based on the 17 APR scores released for the University of Arkansas. The previous record average for Arkansas was 984.2 accomplished in the 2016-17 cohort. All programs eclipsed the benchmark by at least 29 points with 13 programs besting the 930 benchmark by 42 points or more.Īrkansas’ sport programs averaged a program record rate of 984.4, marking the 11th-straight time the program average has exceeded 970 and the fifth straight time it has exceeded 980. – For the ninth consecutive report, the University of Arkansas exceeds the benchmark Academic Progress Rate (APR) multiyear rate of 930 in all 19 of its intercollegiate sport programs.
