Seven Programs Earn Perfect Scores in Latest Cohort of APR Data

HARRISONBURG, Va. – James Madison Athletics earned high marks for both single-year and multi-year data in the most recent release of annual Academic Progress Rate (APR) data marking the 2024-2025 data collection year and released on May 5, 2026.

JMU posted a single-year (2024-2025) APR score of 992. For the second consecutive year, the single-year score features 12 of the department's 17 programs earning a perfect score of 1,000, which represents an increase from nine programs the prior year for 2022-2023 data. The list of 12 for 2024-2025 includes the men's programs of basketball, golf and soccer as well as the women's programs of basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track & field and volleyball.

Among the publicly available multi-year scores, 12 of JMU's 17 scoring programs either matched or increased scores from the previous year with seven posting a perfect 1,000, up from five last year (men's and women's golf, men's soccer, lacrosse, swimming and diving, volleyball and softball).

Thirteen programs exceeded the national average for the sport, including men's basketball by 23 points (JMU 994/national 971), men's soccer by 19 points (JMU 1,000/national 981), men's golf by 12 points (JMU 1,000/national 988), softball by 11 points (JMU 1,000/national 989), football by 10 points (JMU 981/national 971) and volleyball by 10 points (JMU 1,000/national 990).

The men's and women's golf programs each posted their fifth consecutive year with 1,000, while volleyball had its third in a row and men's soccer and softball each repeated with 1,000 scores. Other multi-year scores included men's basketball (994), women's soccer (994), track and field (993), women's tennis (992), field hockey (991), women's basketball (991), cross country (986), men's tennis (981), football (981) and baseball (974).

JMU's seven perfect multi-year scores of 1,000 represented the highest tally in the Sun Belt Conference. In conference-sponsored sports, the Sun Belt posted an overall APR score of 983, a one-point year-over-year increase, with 47 programs earning perfect scores of 1,000. The Sun Belt's 982 overall APR score is its highest in seven years. It was the fourth straight year that the conference's overall multi-year APR score and number of perfect scores both increased.

More information on the NCAA APR program is available at NCAA.org.

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