BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- The Southwestern Athletic Conference has announced its 2024-25 Academic Success Award honors.
 
The SWAC Academic Success Award is an award decided based upon each member institutions collective ranking in the categories of highest four-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) average, highest single year APR average, and highest Graduate Success Rate (GSR).
 
Alcorn State claimed the Academic Success Award finishing with a total of 33 points based upon the point scale system used to determine an institutional winner. Texas Southern (30.0) and Prairie View A&M (26.0) round out the list of top three finishers within the conference.
 
About the SWAC
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is considered one of the premier HBCU conferences in the country and currently ranks among the elite in the nation in terms of HBCU alumni playing with professional sports teams.
 
Current championship competition offered by the league includes competition for men in Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field and Tennis.

Women’s competition is offered in the sports of Basketball, Bowling, Cross Country, Golf, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field, Soccer, Softball, Tennis and Volleyball.
 
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