College Graduation Rates - Nebraska Very High, Texas Very Low

by Jon Johnston on Oct 12, 2006 2:18 PM CDT in CN News

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15032358/

Among The Associated Press' Top 25 football teams, five schools met or exceeded the national average with Notre Dame leading the way at 95 percent. The others were Nebraska at 88 percent, Florida at 80 percent, TCU at 78 percent and Clemson at 77. The NCAA's figure for Florida nearly doubled the 42 percent rate from the federal report.

Three of the Top 25 schools had graduation rates below 50 percent. They were Texas (40 percent), Georgia (41) and California (44).

What's up with Texas being ranked so low? Maybe they should stop accepting kids that simply aren't going to make it, or do a better job of supporting them academically. Or perhaps we can just accept the fact they're a football factory and get on with life.

Top-ranked Ohio State and Southern California, the 2004 national champion, both came in at 55 percent.

Doh!

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Hate to dig it up...

...but this is something I feared when Callahan was first brought in to sign "top-flight" recruits. The top-flights are usually dumber than a box of rocks, and we've seen this with many of Callahan's recruits failing to qualify academically.

I think NU fans take pride in the fact that the team they follow has always lived up to ensuring their players were successful on both sides of the billing student-athletes.

Glad to see the tradition is still going and hopefully the trend continues.

--as an aside. Even ~60% isn't a horrible number. I'd be curious to see what dropout rates are for universities on the whole.

by slink @ Corn Nation on Oct 12, 2006 3:58 PM CDT reply actions

that is the interesting thing they

never report - how these numbers compare to the population as a whole. i would guess they are much higher than the general population, wouldn't you?

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on Oct 13, 2006 1:20 AM CDT up reply actions

the athletic department

wouldn't let BC get away with damaging that reputation. Even Pedey couldn't do anything about that since it would get him in hot water if that academic student athlete image was tarnished.

by maizey on Oct 13, 2006 9:01 AM CDT reply actions