Until 2012, UChicago undergraduate students needed to pass a swim test to graduate. What did this graduation requirement look like?

Generations of Cornellians have participated in a unique tradition: jumping feet first into the deep-end of a pool to swim three consecutive laps. The swim test has been a graduation requirement for ...

Subject: Race on Campus: Why Colleges Are Dropping Their Swim Tests Welcome to Race on Campus. At one point or another, about a quarter of American colleges required students to pass a swim test.

I vividly remember the trepidation I felt as a Cornell University student when I took my required swim test. We had to enter the deep end of the pool with a feet-first jump, float or tread water for ...

It was sink or swim time for graduating college students at Shanghai University in China when the dean’s office announced Sunday that the final swim test for seniors could be done online. The decision ...