FAIRFAX, VA-- The NCAA publicly announced Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of all Division I institutions, with George Mason University scoring an overall 84 percent. In the study the Patriots men's basketball, men's golf, women's rowing, women's swimming and diving, and women's tennis all finished with a perfect 100% score. Thirteen teams were greater than 80%.

Overall, across the NCAA, Division I student-athletes who entered college in 2006 earned their degrees at a rate of 82 percent - the highest ever. Since the NCAA first began tracking the Graduation Success Rate with student-athletes who entered college in 1995, the rate has increased 8 percentage points.

The Graduation Success Rate was developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform initiative to more accurately assess the academic success of student-athletes. It measures those student-athletes who have completed their degree requirements over a six-year period. The results from George Mason and all other NCAA institutions can be found at www.ncaa.org.

The Atlantic 10 Conference ranks fifth among 31 conferences in the NCAA's Graduation Success Rate (GSR), marking the third straight year the league has been ranked in the top five in the annual ratings. Measured in a six-year window, the GSR, records the graduation rate of freshman that enrolled in an A-10 institution in 2006.

The A-10 boasted 62 teams with a perfect GSR of 100, which represents one-third of all Atlantic 10 teams (62 out of 182). Those 62 teams graduated each student-athlete that initially enrolled between 2003 to 2006.

The league ranked second among all 31 conferences in the sport of men's basketball, a conference record, and has trended upward each of the last four years, resulting in a 90 percent graduation success rate for A-10 men's basketball student athletes who initially enrolled with the program in 2006. Every single A-10 women's basketball team was at or above the GSR for all of Division I. Women's basketball also ranks fourth overall among all 31 conferences.

In addition to placing both basketballs in the top five among all conferences, Atlantic 10 baseball is also fifth among the 31 conferences.