The Fall 1990 to Spring 1996 study showed the female student-athletes with a 54 percent graduation rate, which is 20 percent more than female students in general. Shannon attributes the increase to the NCAA toughening its stance on what athletes do in the classroom. I look forward to even bigger increases. CSUN athletes also can't just wait around to decide on a career objective. You must make the progress at working toward a degree.
Statistics show that the athletes have.
Meanwhile, it took the overall student population 5.78 years. I in 1990, giving these statistics even more meaning. Football, which has the largest number of athletes for a team sport, was Division II at Cal State Northridge before joining Division I-AA in 1993. When asked how CSUN compares to other Division I universities, Shannon said it wouldn't be a fair assessment. We're a urban commuter school, while they recruit mostly freshmen.