Murfreesboro – Middle Tennessee's NCAA Graduation Success Rate equaled its school record at 93 percent, as announced by the NCAA national office on Thursday. It's the eighth straight year MT has either equaled or set a new school record.

The Graduation Success Rate (GSR) is a four-year measure of freshmen and athletic transfers who entered Middle Tennessee as freshmen in 2014-15. This marks the ninth straight year that Middle Tennessee has scored above 80 percent. The last nine GSR scores for Middle Tennessee have been 93, 93, 92, 89, 88, 87, 87, 87 and 82.

The Blue Raiders also ranked third out of the 14 teams in Conference USA, trailing only Rice (95) and UTSA (94). Rice, UTSA, Middle Tennessee, and UAB (91) were the only C-USA schools with scores higher than 90.

Middle Tennessee had seven programs score a perfect 100 percent GSR score. Men's Basketball, Men's Golf, Men's Tennis, Women's Basketball, Women's Golf, Soccer, and Volleyball all registered a 100 percent score. Baseball (96) and football (95) were next in line with impressive scores of 95 or higher.

The seven perfect scores of 100 for Middle Tennessee tied for second most amongst C-USA members with Rice (8) leading the way. UAB also had seven sports with scores of 100.

The Blue Raiders' score of 95 percent in football ranked tied for fifth nationally (Northwestern 97, Duke 96, Michigan 96, Minnesota 96, MT 95, Vanderbilt 95) and easily led the way in Conference USA as Rice was second at 91 percent. Among all FBS schools in the state of Tennessee, the Blue Raiders matched Vanderbilt for the best mark as Memphis recorded a 90 and Tennessee had an 84.

"I am extremely proud of the hard work, dedication and commitment our student-athletes have shown academically and also athletically," said Director of AthleticsChris Massaro. "Our coaches deserve a ton of credit for building a culture of graduating student-athletes and winning championships. Our academic success can also be credited to the team we have in place from President McPhee to Vice President Deb Sells, Faculty Representative Terry Whiteside, andTodd Wyant, the director of our student-athlete enhancement center."

Conference USA Overall GSR Scores

Rice 95
UTSA 94
Middle Tennessee 93
UAB 91
Marshall 90
Charlotte 87
FIU 87
North Texas 87
Old Dominion 87
WKU 87
FAU 86
UTEP 86
Southern Miss 85
Louisiana Tech 78

Conference USA Football GSR Scores

Middle Tennessee 95
Rice 91
UTEP 85
North Texas 83
UTSA 83
Marshall 81
FAU 75
FIU 75
WKU 74
Southern Miss 73
Charlotte 70
Old Dominion 70
UAB 69
Louisiana Tech 63