LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ - Rider Athletics achieved a 95% Graduation Success Rate and graduated students at a higher four-class rate (67% vs 65%) than their non-athletic peers, the NCAA has announced. In addition, nine Rider Athletics programs achieved a perfect GSR of 100. GSR is measured as a six-year lagging indicator to measure the 150% graduation timeline of undergraduate student-athletes who received athletics aid during their first year of collegiate enrollment.
 
All colleges and universities are required by federal law (the Student Right-to-Know Act from 1990) to report student graduation rates. Those schools offering athletics aid are required to report on their student-athletes as well. NCAA legislation requires member schools to report enrollment (of both student body and student-athletes receiving athletics aid) and student body and student-athlete graduation rates to the NCAA each year. The NCAA then publishes reports on behalf of the member schools to comply with federal reporting requirements.

The student-athlete graduation rate calculated directly based on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Graduation Rates Survey, which is the methodology the U.S. Department of Education requires, is the proportion of first-year, full-time student-athletes who entered a school on athletics aid and graduated from that institution within six years. This federal rate does not account for students who transfer from their original college or university and graduate elsewhere; they are considered nongraduates at both the college they left and the one from which they eventually graduate. 

The NCAA GSR differs from the federal calculation in two important ways. First, the GSR holds colleges accountable for those student-athletes who transfer to their school. Second, the GSR does not penalize colleges whose student-athletes leave the institution in good academic standing.