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The Academic Performance of Division I Black Athletes
In the aggregate, black men lag behind every other ethnic group when it comes to athletes' graduation rates. Here are the institutions with the best and worst academic performances by all black male athletes and by black basketball players. The rate is the percentage of scholarship athletes who earned their degrees within six years of enrolling.
Institutions that graduated all of the black male basketball players who entered college from 1990-91 to 1993-94:
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Bucknell U*
C of the Holy Cross*
Manhattan C
Northwestern U
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Providence C
Southern Utah U*
Stanford U*
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Institutions that graduated none of the black male basketball players who entered college from 1990-91 to 1993-94:
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Ball State U*
Baylor U
Brigham Young U*
California State U, Long Beach*
California State U, Sacramento
Cleveland State U*
Eastern Kentucky U*
Eastern Washington U*
Georgia Inst of Technology*
Georgia Southern U
Jacksonville State U
James Madison U*
Louisiana State U
McNeese State U*
Morehead State U (Ky)*
Nicholls State U
Oregon State U
Rutgers U, New Brunswick*
Samford U*
Southern Illinois U, Carbondale*
Southern U, Baton Rouge
Southwest Missouri State U
Texas Tech U*
U of Alabama, Birmingham
Northwestern U
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U of Arkansas, Fayetteville
U of Cincinnati
U of Colorado, Boulder
U of Hawaii, Manoa*
U of Idaho*
U of Louisville
U of Memphis
U of Michigan
U of Minnesota, Twin Cities*
U of Nevada, Las Vegas*
U of Nevada, Reno*
U of New Orleans
U of Oklahoma*
U of Texas, El Paso*
U of Texas, Pan American
U of the Pacific
U of Toledo*
U of Wisconsin, Green Bay*
U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee*
U of Wyoming*
Utah State U*
Virginia Commonwealth U*
Western Illinois U
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* = Institution had five or fewer players in the four entering classes
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Institutions graduating more than 80 percent of the black male athletes who entered college from 1990-91 to 1993-94:
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| Number of black
male athletes | Graduation rate |
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| Manhattan C | 11 | 100% |
| Providence C | 8 | 100% |
| U of Hartford | 10 | 90% |
| Stanford U | 27 | 89% |
| Northwestern U | 41 | 88% |
| Fairfield U | 7 | 86% |
| Vanderbilt U | 58 | 86% |
| Duke U | 46 | 85% |
| Wofford C | 33 | 82% |
| Saint Francis C (Pa) | 5 | 80% |
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Institutions that graduated fewer than 20 percent of black male athletes from those years:
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| Number of black
male athletes | Graduation rate |
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| U of Wisconsin, Green Bay | 3 | 0% |
| California State U, Sacramento | 14 | 7% |
| Idaho State U | 28 | 7% |
| Brigham Young U | 12 | 8% |
| California State U, Fullerton | 22 | 9% |
| U of Texas, Arlington | 20 | 10% |
| Coastal Carolina U | 9 | 11% |
| U of Montana | 9 | 11% |
| U of Nevada, Reno | 27 | 11% |
| U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | 9 | 11% |
| U of Arkansas, Little Rock | 25 | 12% |
| U of Arkansas, Fayetteville | 61 | 13% |
| California State U, Long Beach | 15 | 13% |
| U of Texas, Pan American | 8 | 13% |
| Lamar U | 20 | 15% |
| U of Akron | 49 | 16% |
| California State U, Fresno | 44 | 16% |
| Mercer U | 6 | 17% |
| Nicholls State U | 36 | 17% |
| Ohio State U | 66 | 18% |
| U of Louisiana, Lafayette | 57 | 18% |
| Texas Southern U | 92 | 18% |
| U of Nevada, Las Vegas | 53 | 19% |
| San Diego State U | 47 | 19% |
| Weber State U | 16 | 19% |
| U of Wyoming | 31 | 19% |
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