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Student-athletes in both Divisions I and II graduate at a higher rate than the student body -- two percentage points in Division I, eight percentage points in Division II. Women graduate at higher rates than men, whites graduate more often than blacks, but all demographic groups among student-athletes, including African-Americans, graduate at higher rates than among the general student body.
However, and this is why the myth has grown, football student-athletes and more so male basketball student-athletes -- the two highest profile sports -- graduate below both the student-athlete rate and the general student-body rate for both Divisions I and II. In Division I, the differential in football is modest, five percentage points, though in men's basketball, it is truly problematic with a differential of 16 percentage points.
-- excerpt from Myles Brand NCAA 99th Annual Convention
January 2005
The NCAA has its own academic requirements for athletes who will compete at Division I and Division II Universities.