In BCS, Boston College Is Tops Academically

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If you look at the top five schools, they are as whole better academically then the bottom five schools. So getting a higher GPA at one of those institutions is even more impressive. All this shows is that the support of athletes in the classroom is better at the top five schools. And don't tell me that Geogria Tech doesn't have "Jock Classes" because I went there for a year and trust me they do. It is just as hard, if not harder, to achieve a 3.0 at a place like Northwestern or BC as it is a Georgia Tech.

Jon of IL 1:05AM April 02, 2009

The fact that a school is easy academically, and therefore the students get good grades,does not mean that it is a top school academically.
It may very well be that your rankings are reversed. If the athletes are doing well in school, with all of the time demands that they have, it tells me that the school is NOT very challenging.
Futher, a school like Georgia Tech is not a university, and does not have "jock majors."
You obtain hits on your website with articles like this, but you lose credibility with people who are not shallow thinkers. I guess we just defined your target market.

KC Bee of SC 9:53AM February 12, 2009

The fact that a school is easy academically, and therefore the students get good grades,does not mean that it is a top school academically.
It may very well be that your rankings are reversed. If the athletes are doing well in school, with all of the time demands that they have, it tells me that the school is NOT very challenging.
Futher, a school like Georgia Tech is not a university, and does not have "jock majors."
You obtain hits on your website with articles like this, but you lose credibility with people who are not shallow thinkers. I guess we just defined your target market.

KC Bee of SC 9:53AM February 12, 2009

It's a ranking based on GPA, and doesn't take into account the GPA of the student body or the graduation rate of the student body. Georgia Tech is a very difficult school, where the average GPA of it's students is well below 3.0, and less than 70% of incoming students graduate, with likely less than 50% graduating in 4 years. In those terms, the academic progress of GT athletes is very close to, and may even exceed that of, the student body.
If you ignore that, your whole ranking system is meaningless.

BJ of GA 9:24AM February 12, 2009

Still had to complete the same work and workload as anyone else. Sometimes, my deadlines were extended but it didn't make much of a difference with that kind of a physically and mentally demanding schedule.

1EagleGrad of NV 11:43PM February 09, 2009

Does this really mean that these BCS schools have the best academic performance? Perhaps these schools perform more poorly from an educational perspective. You could also look at this statistic and state these are the schools where college football players are given the easy classes and more favorable grades in comparison to the rest. Myron Rolle is a Rhodes Scholar at FSU. Have you seen any players from BC or Northwestern win a Rhodes Scholarship recently?

Kurt of GA 6:53PM February 08, 2009

I attended Florida. I was under the impression that our football team graduates a very high percentage of it players. I am also under the impression that the team GPA has increased (from a respectable level to an even more respectable level) every year under Coach Meyer. I would expect that these factors would gravitate their academic performance toward the upper eschelon, not the lower.

TJ Settle of FL 11:49PM February 07, 2009

This really means nothing. Are you trying to tell me that a degree at Penn State is the same value as one at Georgia Tech? Give me a break. I don't know how exactly this is calculated but I'm guessing it doesn't take into the account the fact that an engineering degree is ten times harder than one in grass management.

of MD 3:31PM January 29, 2009

These results conflict with a story published my the AJC, Atlanta Journal Constitution, showing that among public schools, Georgia Tech's football average SAT score was 1080. Tops among public Div 1 institutions. Be interested to see how the indexed the teams. Obviously not on SAT scores or GPA. Maybe just the difference between the average student's SAT score and the average football player's score. Cheers

Matt of GA 6:38PM January 27, 2009