The University of Minnesota Crookston athletic department received the Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence for the second-consecutive year. Minnesota Crookston also received the honor for 2023.
The Golden Eagles were one of just 43 NCAA Division II programs to receive the prestigious accolade from the NCAA. Minnesota Crookston joined Augustana University, and Concordia University-St. Paul as the only NSIC programs to receive the honor. The award is bestowed to programs with an Academic Success Rate of 90% or higher.
The Division II ASR includes transfers into a school in the calculation and removes those who transferred out of the school while academically eligible. The ASR also includes over 30,000 non-scholarship student-athletes in the division 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 6 percentage points. For Division II student-athletes, the federal rate is 59%, while the general student body federal rate is 53%.
| Institution | Conference | ASR |
| Adelphi University | Northeast-10 | 91% |
| Assumption University | Northeast-10 | 92% |
| Augustana University (SD) | NSIC | 94% |
| Bentley University | Northeast-10 | 98% |
| Biola University | Pacific West | 95% |
| Caldwell University | Central Atlantic Collegiate | 91% |
| Cedarville University | Great Midwest Athletic | 93% |
| Chestnut Hill College | Central Atlantic Collegiate | 91% |
| Colorado School of Mines | Rocky Mountain Athletic | 90% |
| Concordia University, St. Paul | NSIC | 93% |
| Dominican University of California | Pacific West | 95% |
| D’Youville University | East Coast | 92% |
| Eckerd College | Sunshine State | 91% |
| Emmanuel University (Georgia) | Conference Carolinas | 91% |
| Flagler College | Peach Belt | 91% |
| Florida Institute of Technology | Sunshine State | 92% |
| Florida Southern College | Sunshine State | 92% |
| Georgia College | Peach Belt | 92% |
| Goldey-Beacom College | Central Atlantic Collegiate | 92% |
| Hillsdale College | Great Midwest Athletic | 99% |
| Holy Family University | Central Atlantic Collegiate | 92% |
| Lewis University | Great Lakes Valley | 90% |
| Lynn University | Sunshine State | 90% |
| Maryville University of Saint Louis | Great Lakes Valley | 90% |
| Mercy University | East Coast | 92% |
| Michigan Technological University | GLIAC | 92% |
| Molloy University | East Coast | 90% |
| Oklahoma Christian University | Lone Star | 92% |
| Pace University | Northeast-10 | 91% |
| Point Loma Nazarene University | Pacific West | 92% |
| Rockhurst University | Great Lakes Valley | 92% |
| Rollins College | Sunshine State | 96% |
| Saint Anselm College | Northeast-10 | 91% |
| Saint Michael’s College | Northeast-10 | 97% |
| Seton Hill University | Pennsylvania State Athletic | 92% |
| Southern New Hampshire University | Northeast-10 | 92% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Central Atlantic Collegiate | 97% |
| Trevecca Nazarene University | Gulf South | 93% |
| University of Illinois Springfield | Great Lakes Valley | 91% |
| University of Minnesota, Crookston | NSIC | 90% |
| University of Texas at Dallas | Lone Star | 92% |
| Western Washington University | Great Northwest Athletic | 90% |
| Westmont College | Pacific West | 92% |
