Buffs APR Score at An All-Time High

BOULDER – The University of Colorado Academic Progress Rate (APR) report based on information for the four-year period from 2018-19 through 2021-22 released Tuesday by the NCAA has CU scoring an impressive 991 APR for the 2021-22 season, the highest rate for the Colorado Buffaloes in the history of the APR.

CU also set a program best with 11 of 15 sports (73.3 percent) earning a perfect score of 1,000 for the 2021-22 season. The previous high was 10 sports in both 2016-17 and 2018-19 and it marks the eighth-straight year the Buffs have had more than half (eight or more) teams with a perfect score of 1,000.

CU's four-year API stands at 986, tied for the second-best multiyear APR for the Buffaloes, just one point behind the high mark of 987 in 2015-16. Additionally, four of CU's 15 sports have a perfect score of 1,000 for the four-year period, the fourth-straight year at least four teams have a perfect multiyear APR.

CU's 991 APR for 2021-22 exceeds the necessary score of 985 for Colorado to receive the "Values-Based Revenue Distribution" designed to reward institutions for their accomplishments in the classroom. To obtain a VRBD, schools must meet requirements in one of three areas, APR, the graduation success rate (GSR) or the federal graduation rate (FGR).

To obtain the funds, the school's GSR must be over 90 percent, the APR over 985 or the FGR for the athletic department to equal to 13 percentage points higher than the school average. CU met the standard in both APR and GSR, coming in with a 96 percent graduation rate for all student-athletes.

CU Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano was on the committee that created the concept of new academic money to be awarded to schools out of the funds generated from the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Funds are distributed to conferences and allocated to institutions in accordance with conference policies.

In terms of four-year APR rates, CU's women's golf program recorded a perfect score of 1,000 for the seventh straight report, while the women's skiing program scored a perfect 1,000 for the fifth straight time, women's cross country and men's skiing for the fourth straight time each. Additionally, women's lacrosse (998), women's soccer (997), women's basketball (995), and women's tennis (990) each scored at 990 or higher for the four-year period.

For the 2021-22 season, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, women's golf, women's lacrosse, men's and women's skiing, women's tennis, men's track and women's volleyball all scored a perfect 1,000 APR.

CU has now had 37 teams register a perfect 1,000 multiyear APR in its history with 21 of those coming in the past four years, and 120 teams have recorded a perfect 1,000 for a season, and average of 6.7 teams per year over the span of the APR system.

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