It’s Official: UND Student-Athletes Best in the Classroom!

The University of Notre Dame’s student-athletes are hands down the smartest student-athletes in the nation. According to the recently released APR (Academic Progress Report) data, the University of Notre Dame was the top Football Bowl Subdivision school in the country in regards to their performance in the classroom. Each sport in each school is graded on a number of things- from grades to graduation rates, and assigned a score from 1-1,000. Nine Notre Dame sports teams earned perfect 1,000 scores, more than any other Bowl school. The average APR for Notre Dame was well above the rest. Here are a few schools that got their blue books handed to them. Notre Dame athletes are smarter than athletes at:

  • Duke
  • Boston College
  • Stanford
  • U.S. Naval Academy
  • Michigan
  • Rutgers
  • Rice
  • Miami
  • Penn State
  • Georgia
  • Northwestern
  • North Carolina

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