The University of Notre Dame leads all NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision institutions, along with Northwestern University, with a 99 Graduation Success Rate (GSR), as released by the NCAA on Wednesday, November 19, 2025. The 99 rating for Notre Dame and Northwestern leads the way among football competing schools in the country, followed by Boston College, Cincinnati, Duke and Stanford all with a 97 rating.
Notre Dame has been among the nation’s top three in GSR among FBS institutions for 19 consecutive years and has led the nation in 17 of those 19 instances. Nineteen of Notre Dame’s 22 men’s and women’s sports rated by the NCAA earned perfect 100 scores in the latest rating release.
Programs that earned a 100 rating from 2015-18 include baseball, men’s basketball, men’s cross country/track and field, men’s fencing, men’s golf, hockey, men’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, men’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, rowing, women’s golf, women’s lacrosse, softball, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving, women’s tennis, women’s cross country/track and field and volleyball.
Among all Division I institutions across the country, Notre Dame led the way as well with its 99 overall rating, joining Cornell, Harvard, Marquette, Northwestern, San Francisco and Yale who all compiled a 99 GSR rating.