Nebraska Leads Big 12 in Graduation Rates for Football Fourth Co

Lincoln, Neb. -- For the fourth consecutive year, the Husker football team posted the top graduation rate among Big 12 member schools. Nebraska's four-class (1989-92) graduation rate was 63 percent (67 percent for Caucasian scholarship student-athletes and 60 percent for African Americans). The African American rate of 60 percent tied with Baylor for the conference best. All three figures are higher than the national average for all students, all student-athletes and football student-athletes. Nebraska's student-athlete graduation rate for all sports, which includes only those students who completed their eligibility at NU, is an outstanding 86 percent.

For the second consecutive year, the government-supplied Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) graduation-rate survey was used to compile rates, in compliance with NCAA Bylaw 30.1 and the Federal Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act. The report gives graduation information about students and student-athletes entering in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992. These are the four most recent graduating classes for which the required six years of information is available. The report includes student-athletes who enroll as freshmen, receive athletics related financial aid in the first two years and who graduate from that institution within six years of initial enrollment. Student-athletes who transfer in good academic standing and graduate elsewhere count against their original institution as not graduating and are not counted in the four-class average for their second institution.

1999 NCAA Division I Graduation Rates Report
Four-Class Totals (1989-92)

School	Total	African American	White
All Divisions, All Students	56	39	59
All Divisions, Student-Athletes	56	36	58
All Divisions, Football	40	32	50
Nebraska, All Students	48	25	48
Nebraska, Student-Athletes	57	59	56
Nebraska, Football	63	60	67

Big 12 Conference Schools, Football Student-Athletes Only

1.	Nebraska	63	60	67
2.	Baylor	61	60	69
3.	Iowa State	57	39	73
	Texas	57	48	65
5.	Missouri	55	40	70
6.	Colorado	48	32	69
7.	Kansas State	47	26	60
8.	Texas Tech	45	28	65
9.	Oklahoma State	43	41	50
10.	Oklahoma	42	34	56
11.	Kansas	35	19	54
12.	Texas A&M	32	19	55

Notes:
* Nebraska's graduation rate for scholarship student-athletes who complete their eligibility at Nebraska is 86 percent for all sports.
* Nebraska's football four-class graduation rate (63 percent) leads the Big 12 Conference for the fourth straight year.