For the second straight year, Maryville University has been honored with the prestigious NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence for a four-cohort Academic Success Rate of 90% or higher. Maryville student-athletes posted an Academic Success Rate of 90% for the 2013-16 cohorts, which would have been reported from 2020 to 2023. Maryville is one of 44 NCAA Division II member schools to earn the recognition. The NCAA and the federal government measure time to graduate within a six-year window of first-time enrollment.

"Congratulations to the 44 schools who have earned this prestigious award," said Steven Shirley, president of Minot State and chair of the Division II Presidents Council. "It takes a collective effort from the student-athletes, coaches, university and athletic administrators to earn an Academic Success Rate of 90% or higher, and I'm very excited to recognize these schools."
 
The Division II ASR includes transfers into a school in the calculation and removes those who transferred out while academically eligible. The ASR also includes the more than 30,000 non-scholarship student-athletes who were enrolled in the four years covered in the most recent data.
 
Even when using the less-inclusive federal graduation rate, student-athletes are outperforming their peers in the general student population by seven percentage points. For Division II student-athletes, the federal rate is 60%, while the general student body federal rate is 53%.
 
This spring, 16 Saints teams earned Team Academic All-GLVC Awards, and nearly 300 Maryville student-athletes were named Academic All-GLVC for 2022-23.