LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The Aggies have recorded their highest Graduation Success Rate ever.

NM State's rate of 84 percent for 2019-20 is the institution's best since the NCAA started measuring the GSR. The GSR measurement reflects Aggie student-athletes who enrolled in 2013-14 and earned their degrees within six years.

Three Aggie teams - women's golf, women's swimming & diving and women's tennis - achieved a perfect 100 percent GSR, matching a school high. Three NM State programs also recorded perfect GSRs in 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20.

NM State's overall GSR of 84 ranks second best in the Western Athletic Conference for 2019-20. The Aggies' overall GSR improved by three from their 2018-19 overall rate of 81 percent.
 
Both the GSR and the Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) are based on the number of student-athletes on athletics aid enrolling in school each year. A number of variables may impact these figures, such as student-athletes who opt for professional or educational opportunities outside of their original institution, and student-athletes in good academic standing who choose to leave school early.
 
The FGR is mandated by the U.S. Government and reflects the number of scholarship student-athletes who enter an institution in a specific academic year and graduate from that same institution within six academic years. It does not factor in transfer students leaving or entering an institution; the FGR counts transfers as non-graduates and therefore is typically lower than the GSR.
 
The GSR accounts for students who transfer into an institution and does not penalize institutions that have student-athletes who choose to transfer out while still in good academic standing.