JONESBORO, Ark. (5/13/26) – The NCAA national office recently released the latest NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) data, and Arkansas State had four programs post a perfect 1,000 multi-year score to help the Red Wolves record their fifth-highest scoring average in the 20-plus year history of the APR.
 
A-State's department-wide 981 average included nine sports either matching or improving their multi-year score over the previous year, including the baseball and volleyball programs that both achieved their third highest score in school history.
 
The Red Wolves' four programs, including men's and women's golf, women's cross country and women's tennis, recording a perfect 1,000 multi-year score tied the second most in school history behind only the five teams that reached the mark in 2020-21 and 2013-14.  It also tied the fourth most in the Sun Belt Conference this year.
 
All four programs achieving the perfect score did so for at least the second straight year, led by both golf teams hitting the mark for the sixth consecutive time.  The women's golf program has now scored a multi-year 1,000 in 10 of the last 11 years.
 
The APR, created to provide a real-time measurement of academic success rather than the six-year delay with graduation rates, is a term-based metric in which scholarship student-athletes earn one point for each term in which they remain academically eligible and one point for returning to school for graduating.  Schools that do not offer athletics aid track the eligibility and retention of their recruited student-athletes within their APR cohorts.
 
Every Division I athletics program submits data to the NCAA as part of the Academic Progress Rate calculation. The NCAA reports both single-year and four-year rates. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable, member-provided data.