According to Inside Higher Ed, if the March Madness of men’s college basketball was based on academic performance, Seton Hall University would finish in the Final Four.
Seton Hall returns to the actual NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament for the first time since 2006 after winning the Big East Championship against the third ranked team in the nation, Villanova. “Our student-athletes have proven time and again, that excellence in the classroom, in addition to on the fields of play, is of the utmost importance,” said Seton Hall Vice President and Director of Athletics & Recreation Pat Lyons. “Articles like these give a glimpse at the hard work and dedication of these young leaders. We’re delighted to see them recognized in this manner, but we’re certainly not surprised. Seton Hall’s academic prowess, both in and out of the athletics department, continues to grow by the day.”
This is the eleventh year that Inside Higher Ed has produced its “Academic Bracket” for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. To determine the winners, Inside Higher Ed judges teams based on “the Academic Progress Rate, the N.C.A.A.’s multiyear measure of a team’s classroom performance,” and “the N.C.A.A.’s Graduation Success Rate.”
Read more about Inside Higher Ed’s NCAA Tournament “Academic Bracketology.”
ABOUT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
One of the country’s leading Catholic universities, Seton Hall University has been developing students in mind, heart and spirit since 1856. Home to nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students and offering more than 90 rigorous majors, Seton Hall’s academic excellence has been singled out for distinction by The Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Seton Hall, which embraces students of all religions, prepares its graduates to be exemplary servant leaders and global citizens. In recent years, the University has achieved extraordinary success. Since 2009, the University has seen record-breaking undergraduate enrollment growth in addition to an impressive 95-point increase in the average SAT scores of incoming freshmen. In the past decade, Seton Hall students and alumni have been awarded nearly 20 Fulbright Scholarships as well as other prestigious academic honors including a Rhodes Scholar. In the past five years, the University has invested more than $134 million in new campus buildings and renovations. And in 2015, Seton Hall announced plans for a new School of Medicine as well as launched a new College of Communication and the Arts.
A founding member of the new Big East Conference, the Seton Hall Pirates field 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports teams. The University’s beautiful main campus is located in suburban South Orange, New Jersey, and is only 14 miles from New York City – offering its students a wealth of employment, internship, cultural and entertainment opportunities. The University’s nationally recognized School of Law is prominently located in downtown Newark. For more information, visit www.shu.edu.
