2009 NCSA Collegiate Power Rankings
Shippensburg University > Shippensburg Ranks Sixth in NCSA Collegiate Power Rankings
August 02, 2005
CHICAGO,Ill. - Shippensburg University ranked sixth on the National Collegiate Scouting Association's (NCSA) third annual Collegiate Power Rankings released on Monday. The rankings list the top academic and athletic colleges/universities in the country at the NCAA Division II level.
University of California-Santa Barbara topped the Division II list with Stonehill College, Truman State University, Drury University and Bentley College rounding out the top five.
The NCSA matches college coaches with the right student-athletes by building lasting relationships with college coaches and empowering student-athletes to achieve the best education possible. The NCSA Collegiate Power Rankings provide data that allows prospective student-athletes and parents to evaluate the particular strengths of universities based on academic and athletic factors as well as student-athlete graduation rates.
The rankings were developed by NCSA founder and CEO Chris Krause in 2002 and are calculated for each school at the NCAA Division I, II and III level by averaging the US News & World Report ranking, the US Sports Academy Directors' Cup rank and the student-athlete graduation rate of each school.
The US Sports Academy Director's Cup ranking evaluates the strengths of NCAA athletic departments while the US News & World Report ranking recognizes institutions of academic excellence. The student-athlete graduation rates are based on those provided by the NCAA.
Shippensburg ranked 45th in the US News & World Report rankings, 38th in the final NCAA Division II Directors' Cup ranking and fifth in Division II student-athlete graduation rates. The NCSA was founded in April of 2000 by Chris Krause, a former full scholarship football player at Vanderbilt University.
Earlier this year, Shippensburg won its fifth Dixon Trophy in 10 years, an award given by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) to the league's most successful all-around athletic program. It was also the third time in as many years that the school has won the award.
