HFU Athletics Earns 2024 NCAA Division II Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence After Ranking Tied for 15th in Academic Success Rate

Holy Family University ranked 15th out of 313 Division II institutions with an academic success rate (ASR) of 92 percent in the most recent cohort, which considered student-athletes who enrolled in 2017.

This accomplishment meant HFU was one of 44 institutions to receive the 2024 NCAA Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence, which is bestowed upon Division II institutions that achieve an ASR of 90 percent or higher.

Division II’s ASR was designed to approximate a true student-centered measure of graduation rates from any four-year college within a six-year window. It includes student-athletes who transfer into a school and removes student-athletes who left the school in good academic standing. In addition, given the partial-scholarship financial aid model of Division II, the ASR data includes student-athletes not on athletically related financial aid.

The national average for the 2017 cohort was 77 percent.

Four Holy Family teams – men’s and women’s basketball, women’s lacrosse and volleyball – notably achieved a perfect ASR of 100 percent.

Additionally, women’s soccer (ASR of 95 percent), softball (94 percent), men’s soccer (91 percent) and women’s cross country and track & field (87 percent) were all above the national average for their respective sports.