<p>bc,
I don’t think you understand the NCAA data. It makes allowances for student-athletes who opt to go pro and for students who transfer. In neither instance is the rate negatively impacted if the student would have been academically eligible to compete. The full description is "the GSR measures graduation rates at Division I institutions and includes students transferring into the institutions. The GSR also allows institutions to subtract student-athletes who leave their institutions prior to graduation as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete had they remained.'</p>
<p>[Division</a> I Graduation Success Rate / Division II Academic Success Rate - NCAA.org](<a href=“NCAA.org - Official Athletics Website”>NCAA.org - Official Athletics Website)</p>