# List of college athletic programs in South Dakota

This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
Notes:
* This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
** Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
** Full name of school.
** Location of school.
** Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
* Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
** Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school, such as the College of Charleston.
** Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name "University of North Carolina" may variously be found at "C" (Charlotte), "N" (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and "U" (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
** The prefix "St.", as in "Saint", is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.

## NCAA
### Division I

| Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship |
| Team | School | City | Conference | Foot- ball | Basketball | Basketball | Base- ball | Soft- ball | Soccer | Soccer |
| Team | School | City | Conference | Foot- ball | M | W | Base- ball | Soft- ball | M | W |
| South Dakota Coyotes | University of South Dakota | Vermillion | Summit | FCS | | | | | | |
| South Dakota State Jackrabbits | South Dakota State University | Brookings | Summit | FCS | | | | | | |
* 1 2 South Dakota and South Dakota State's football teams compete in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.

### Division II

| Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship |
| Team | School | City | Conference | Foot- ball | Basketball | Basketball | Base- ball | Soft- ball | Ice hockey | Ice hockey | Soccer | Soccer |
| Team | School | City | Conference | Foot- ball | M | W | Base- ball | Soft- ball | M | W | M | W |
| Augustana Vikings | Augustana University | Sioux Falls | Northern Sun | | | | | | | | | |
| Black Hills State Yellow Jackets | Black Hills State University | Spearfish | Rocky Mountain | | | | | | | | | |
| Northern State Wolves | Northern State University | Aberdeen | Northern Sun | | | | | | | | | |
| South Dakota Mines Hardrockers | South Dakota School of Mines & Technology | Rapid City | Rocky Mountain | | | | | | | | | |
| Sioux Falls Cougars | University of Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Northern Sun | | | | | | | | | |
* ↑ Augustana's men's ice hockey team competes in Division I as a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

## NAIA

| Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship | Sport sponsorship |
| Team | School | City | Conference | Foot- ball | Basketball | Basketball | Base- ball | Soft- ball | Soccer | Soccer |
| Team | School | City | Conference | Foot- ball | M | W | Base- ball | Soft- ball | M | W |
| Dakota State Trojans | Dakota State University | Madison | North Star | | | | | | | |
| Dakota Wesleyan Tigers | Dakota Wesleyan University | Mitchell | Great Plains | | | | | | | |
| Mount Marty Lancers | Mount Marty University | Yankton | Great Plains | | | | | | | |