The University of Mississippi Athletics
Ole Miss Athletics Breaks Department APR Record
5/6/2025 | Student-Athlete Development
INDIANAPOLIS – Ole Miss Athletics has bested its department APR record, tallying a multi-year average of 993 in the annual Academic Progress Rate release by the NCAA on Tuesday.
Ole Miss stands at plus-nine over the national average, which held this year at 984. Among SEC schools, Ole Miss ranks tied for second with Missouri and Vanderbilt at that 993 score, trailing only a 995 multi-year score by Alabama.
Four Rebel teams currently have a perfect multi-year APR score of 1,000: men's golf, rifle, soccer and women's tennis. Of the 16 sports at Ole Miss, 10 posted perfect single-season scores of 1,000: baseball, women's basketball, men's basketball, women's golf, men's golf, rifle, soccer, women's tennis, men's tennis and volleyball.
The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric where scholarship student-athletes earn one point each term for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. Schools that don't offer scholarships track their recruited student-athletes.
Every Division I sports team submits data to have its Academic Progress Rate calculated each academic year. The NCAA reports both single-year rates and four-year rates, on which penalties for poor academic performance are based. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable, member-provided data. APRs for each team and those receiving sanctions are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.
This is the fourth consecutive year of publicly reported APRs after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the Division I board approved the release of APR scores but voted to continue the suspension of program penalties. Normal Academic Performance Program operations with program penalties and loss of access to postseason competition were originally scheduled to resume in spring 2024, but the Division I Committee on Academics decided not to enforce the loss of access to postseason competition for teams that scored lower than 930 last year, instead offering a conditional waiver due to lingering impacts of the pandemic.
However, normal operations are being enforced this year for teams scoring below the 930 benchmark, with strategic penalties that encourage an emphasis and prioritization on academics.
Ole Miss Athletics Multi-Year APR
993 – Department Record, +9 over NCAA average
Ole Miss Athletics Single-Year APR
991
Ole Miss Athletics Multi-Year APR, By Gender*
Women: 996 – +8 over NCAA average (988)*
Men: 990 – +12 over NCAA average (978)*
* In sports offered at Ole Miss; excludes Rifle, which is a co-ed sport nationally
Ole Miss Perfect Multi-Year APR Scores (4)
Men's Golf
Rifle
Soccer
Women's Tennis
Ole Miss Perfect Single-Year APR Scores (10)
Baseball
Women's Basketball
Men's Basketball
Women's Golf
Men's Golf
Rifle
Soccer
Women's Tennis
Men's Tennis
Volleyball
FedEx Student-Athlete Success Center and Ole Miss Student-Athlete Development Mission
The mission of the FedEx Student-Athlete Success Center is to promote academic and personal achievement through quality developmental and need-based programs designed to empower and holistically develop student-athletes for life after collegiate athletics.
Ole Miss stands at plus-nine over the national average, which held this year at 984. Among SEC schools, Ole Miss ranks tied for second with Missouri and Vanderbilt at that 993 score, trailing only a 995 multi-year score by Alabama.
Four Rebel teams currently have a perfect multi-year APR score of 1,000: men's golf, rifle, soccer and women's tennis. Of the 16 sports at Ole Miss, 10 posted perfect single-season scores of 1,000: baseball, women's basketball, men's basketball, women's golf, men's golf, rifle, soccer, women's tennis, men's tennis and volleyball.
The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric where scholarship student-athletes earn one point each term for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. Schools that don't offer scholarships track their recruited student-athletes.
Every Division I sports team submits data to have its Academic Progress Rate calculated each academic year. The NCAA reports both single-year rates and four-year rates, on which penalties for poor academic performance are based. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable, member-provided data. APRs for each team and those receiving sanctions are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.
This is the fourth consecutive year of publicly reported APRs after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the Division I board approved the release of APR scores but voted to continue the suspension of program penalties. Normal Academic Performance Program operations with program penalties and loss of access to postseason competition were originally scheduled to resume in spring 2024, but the Division I Committee on Academics decided not to enforce the loss of access to postseason competition for teams that scored lower than 930 last year, instead offering a conditional waiver due to lingering impacts of the pandemic.
However, normal operations are being enforced this year for teams scoring below the 930 benchmark, with strategic penalties that encourage an emphasis and prioritization on academics.
Ole Miss Athletics Multi-Year APR
993 – Department Record, +9 over NCAA average
Ole Miss Athletics Single-Year APR
991
Ole Miss Athletics Multi-Year APR, By Gender*
Women: 996 – +8 over NCAA average (988)*
Men: 990 – +12 over NCAA average (978)*
* In sports offered at Ole Miss; excludes Rifle, which is a co-ed sport nationally
Ole Miss Perfect Multi-Year APR Scores (4)
Men's Golf
Rifle
Soccer
Women's Tennis
Ole Miss Perfect Single-Year APR Scores (10)
Baseball
Women's Basketball
Men's Basketball
Women's Golf
Men's Golf
Rifle
Soccer
Women's Tennis
Men's Tennis
Volleyball
FedEx Student-Athlete Success Center and Ole Miss Student-Athlete Development Mission
The mission of the FedEx Student-Athlete Success Center is to promote academic and personal achievement through quality developmental and need-based programs designed to empower and holistically develop student-athletes for life after collegiate athletics.
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