Rank list / Financial health / Conferences
Conference financial health
Each conference letter is the average of the financial health grades already on its member pages. Incomplete schools are listed and left out of the average. No new filing, dollar, or estimate.
- A
- 2
- B
- 9
- C
- 3
- D
- 0
- F
- 0
- Incomplete
- 2
Highest 
Arkansas, 
Kentucky A
Lowest 
Alabama, 
Missouri, 
South Carolina C
SEC is B. The 14 graded member letters average 2.93 on an A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0 scale. The letter uses the full average, which is in the B band, 2.5 up to but not including 3.5. 2 members are left out of the average.
The reasons already on the most graded members are “Makes more than it spends without university help” and “gets little help from the university”.
Highest letter: Arkansas and Kentucky (A). Lowest letter: Alabama, Missouri, and South Carolina (C).
Auburn — Incomplete: athletics debt is not in a public filing.
Vanderbilt — Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.
- A
- 4
- B
- 7
- C
- 3
- D
- 0
- F
- 0
- Incomplete
- 4
Highest 
Michigan, 
Nebraska, 
Ohio State, 
Oregon A
Lowest 
Michigan State, 
UCLA, 
Washington C
Big Ten is B. The 14 graded member letters average 3.07 on an A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0 scale. The letter uses the full average, which is in the B band, 2.5 up to but not including 3.5. 4 members are left out of the average.
The reasons already on the most graded members are “Makes more than it spends without university help” and “gets little help from the university”.
Highest letter: Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio State, and Oregon (A). Lowest letter: Michigan State, UCLA, and Washington (C).
Indiana — Incomplete: athletics debt is not in a public filing.
Northwestern — Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.
Rutgers — Incomplete: athletics debt is not in a public filing.
USC — Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.
- A
- 0
- B
- 4
- C
- 3
- D
- 3
- F
- 2
- Incomplete
- 4
Highest 
Iowa State, 
Kansas, 
Kansas State, 
Oklahoma State B
Lowest 
Cincinnati, 
Houston F
Big 12 is C. The 12 graded member letters average 1.75 on an A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0 scale. The letter uses the full average, which is in the C band, 1.5 up to but not including 2.5. 4 members are left out of the average.
The reasons already on the most graded members are “gets little help from the university” and “a very heavy annual debt payment”.
Highest letter: Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State (B). Lowest letter: Cincinnati and Houston (F).
Arizona State — Incomplete: athletics debt is not in a public filing.
Baylor — Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.
BYU — Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.
TCU — Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.
- A
- 0
- B
- 1
- C
- 6
- D
- 2
- F
- 0
- Incomplete
- 8
Highest 
North Carolina B
Lowest 
California, 
Florida State D
ACC is C. The 9 graded member letters average 1.89 on an A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0 scale. The letter uses the full average, which is in the C band, 1.5 up to but not including 2.5. 8 members are left out of the average.
The reason already on the most graded members is “Needs a subsidy to cover a modest gap”.
Highest letter: North Carolina (B). Lowest letter: California and Florida State (D).
Incomplete and left out: Boston College, Duke, Miami (FL), Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, and Wake Forest. Each grade already states the missing filing.
Incomplete
0 of 1 graded
Every member is Incomplete.
- A
- 0
- B
- 0
- C
- 0
- D
- 0
- F
- 0
- Incomplete
- 1
Highest None.
Lowest None.
Independent / ACC is Incomplete because no member has a letter grade.
Every member is Incomplete and is listed with the gap already on that grade.
Notre Dame — Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.
Incomplete
0 of 1 graded
Every member is Incomplete.
- A
- 0
- B
- 0
- C
- 0
- D
- 0
- F
- 0
- Incomplete
- 1
Highest None.
Lowest None.
Pac-12 is Incomplete because no member has a letter grade.
Every member is Incomplete and is listed with the gap already on that grade.
Washington State — Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.
How the conference letter is calculated
A conference letter uses only the financial health letters already on its member pages. It does not add a filing, a dollar, or an estimate.
Each member letter is a point: A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, F = 0. School grades in this book are A, B, C, D, F, or Incomplete. They do not use plus or minus. A plus or minus is not given a point. A member letter that is not one of those five letters, and is not Incomplete, is listed and left out of the average.
Incomplete members are listed and left out of the average. The conference letter is the unrounded average of the graded points. A is 3.5 or higher. B is 2.5 up to but not including 3.5. C is 1.5 up to but not including 2.5. D is 0.5 up to but not including 1.5. F is below 0.5. These are the same cutoffs as a school grade. The average in the grade reason is rounded to two decimal places for reading. The letter uses the full average, not that rounded display. If no member has a letter, the conference is Incomplete.
The grade reason quotes a reason already written on the member grades. Highest and lowest are the best and worst letters among graded members. A tie lists every school with that letter.
School grades and the factor cutoffs
