ANNAPOLIS, Md.--The United States Naval Academy is once again one of the top 10 schools in the country for graduating NCAA student-athletes. Navy's graduation success rate of 95 percent is tied for seventh in the country among schools that sponsor FBS football and is tops in the American Athletic Conference and among Service Academies.
 
The graduation success rate measures those student-athletes that were enrolled from 2010-13 and graduated within six years.

"Our student-athletes continually strive to set the standard on the playing fields, in the classroom and in Bancroft Hall," said Naval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk. "The support and encouragement they receive through the Commandant and his staff and the academic dean and all of our outstanding professors and instructors is extraordinary and provides tremendous motivation to be successful morally, mentally and physically. Our midshipmen clearly define the true meaning of student-athlete."

Top 20 Graduation Success Rates (All Sports/FBS Schools Only)
  1. Duke: 98%
      Northwestern: 98%
      Notre Dame: 98%
  4. Vanderbilt: 97%
  5. Stanford: 96%
      Wake Forest: 96%
  7. Navy: 95%
      Boston College: 95%
      Miami (Ohio): 95%
      South Carolina: 95%
      Virginia: 95%
12. Baylor: 94%
       Cincinnati: 94%
       Illinois: 94%
       Michigan: 94%
       Minnesota: 94%
       Nebraska: 94%
       Rice: 94%
       Syracuse: 94%
       Utah: 94%