Syracuse, N.Y. – Le Moyne College has been awarded the Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence from the NCAA, as announced by the association recently. 

The honor is awarded to Division II institutions that have achieved an Academic Success Rate of 90-percent or higher. This year, 44 member schools earned the honor.

The Division II ASR includes transfers into a school in the calculation and removes transfers out who left school while academically eligible. The ASR also includes the more than 31,000 non-scholarship student-athletes who were enrolled in the four years covered in the most recent data. For the student-athletes who enrolled from 2012 through 2015, the four years covered in the most recent data, Le Moyne posted an ASR of 95%, tied for the seventh-best mark in Division II and the second-best in the College's history, trailing only last year by one point. Amongst NE10 institutions, Le Moyne is third behind Bentley University and Saint Michael's College, which are tied for first in the country at 99%. The national ASR for the 2012 through 2015 cohort is 76%, the same as last year.

Top 10

INSTITUTION	FOUR-YEAR ASR	CONFERENCE
Bentley University	99%	Northeast-10 Conference
Biola University	99%	Pacific West Conference
Saint Michael's College	99%	Northeast-10 Conference
Hillsdale College	98%	Great Midwest Athletic Conference
Thomas Jefferson University	97%	Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
Trevecca Nazarene University	97%	Great Midwest Athletic Conference
Le Moyne College	95%	Northeast-10 Conference
Rollins College	95%	Sunshine State Conference
Caldwell University	94%	Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
Cedarville University	94%	Great Midwest Athletic Conference
Dominican University of California	94%	Pacific West Conference
Georgia College	94%	Peach Belt Conference
Maryville University of Saint Louis	94%	Great Lakes Valley Conference
Michigan Technological University	94%	Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Rockhurst University	94%	Great Lakes Valley Conference