INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Nov. 21, 2024) – Mercy University is one of 43 athletic departments across the country to earn the NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence. The honor is bestowed upon institutions that achieved an Academic Success Rate (ASR) of 90 percent or higher in the most recent set of data.

Mercy University registered an ASR of 92 percent, which tied for 12th best in the country out of 312 institutions. The award, in its 14th year of being given, was collected by three ECC schools. Mercy tied for the highest ASR of all ECC schools, and this is the third year in a row Mercy has earned the honor.

The Division II ASR includes transfers into a school in the calculation and removes those who transferred out of the school while academically eligible. The ASR also includes over 30,000 nonscholarship student-athletes who were enrolled in the four years covered in the most recent data.

Even when using the less-inclusive federal graduation rate, student-athletes are outperforming their peers in the general student population by 6 percentage points. For Division II student-athletes, the federal rate is 59%, while the general student body federal rate is 53%.