United States Government Accountability Office

GAO Report to Congressional Addressees

INTERCOLLEGIATE

ATHLETICS 

Recent Trends in 

Teams and 

Participants in 

National Collegiate 

Athletic Association 

Sports 

July 2007 

 

GAO–07–535 
What GAO Found

United States Government Accountability Office

Why GAO Did This Study

Highlights

Accountability Integrity Reliability

July 2007

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

Recent Trends in Teams and Participants 

in National Collegiate Athletic 

Association Sports 

Highlights of GAO-07-535, a report to 

congressional addressees

Since the 1970s, the roles of women 

as both students and athletes have

changed in higher education, with 

female enrollment surpassing male

enrollment, and female athletic 

participation showing gains as well. 

These changes have generated 

public interest in whether women 

participate in athletics at

comparable levels to men and

whether men’s opportunities have 

decreased as a result of the

increased opportunities for women. 

Under the Comptroller General’s 

authority, GAO assessed the extent 

to which the numbers of men’s and 

women’s intercollegiate sports 

teams and participants at 4-year 

colleges have changed from the 

1991-1992 through 2004-2005 school 

years. 

How GAO Did This Study

To address these issues, GAO 

analyzed athletic data from the 

National Collegiate Athletic

Association (NCAA) for two groups 

of colleges: (a) the entire NCAA 

membership, or open group, for 

which trends will reflect schoollevel decisions and membership 

changes, and (b) the consistent 

members of the NCAA throughout 

this period, or closed group, for 

which trends will reflect schoollevel decisions only. We used 

NCAA data because they were the 

only viable option for analyzing 

annual athletic trends for teams 

and participants over an extended 

period. We analyzed those sports

for which team and participant 

data were reported each year for

both groups of colleges.

While the numbers of both men’s and women’s intercollegiate sports teams 

increased from 1991-1992 to 2004-2005, women’s teams showed greater gains 

than men’s teams. In fact, there have been more women’s than men’s teams 

since the mid-to-late 1990s for both the entire NCAA membership and the 

group of colleges that were consistent members of the NCAA throughout 

this period. For both groups of schools, most women’s sports and some 

men’s sports showed increases in teams, but many men’s sports showed 

mixed or small changes in the number of teams. 

 

The numbers of both male and female athletic participants increased from 

1991-1992 to 2004-2005—with female participants showing larger rates of 

increase—but men’s participation levels were greater than women’s 

throughout this time period, both in absolute terms and relative to their 

respective enrollments. Most women’s sports and half of men’s sports 

showed increases in the number of participants across both groups of 

schools. In the context of enrollment, female participation grew at a faster 

rate than female enrollment in both groups of schools. However, from 1991-

1992 to 2004-2005, overall participation rates were significantly greater for 

men in at least three out of four coed schools in the closed group. 

Number of Male and Female Participants in the Open and Closed Groups, 1991-1992 to 2004-

2005 School Years 

Source: GAO analysis of NCAA data.

Number of participants

1991-1992

1992-1993

1993-1994

1994-1995

1995-1996

1996-1997

1997-1998

1998-1999

1999-2000

2000-2001

2001-2002

2002-2003

2003-2004

2004-2005

0

50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

School year

(21%)

(Percentage change)

Men’s-open

Men’s-closed

Women’s-open

Women’s-closed

(9%)

(63%)

(49%)

Notes: These counts reflect the sum of the participants in each of the individual sports that were 

consistently reported throughout the time period. To the extent that athletes participated on 

more than one team, the number of participants may be overstated.

For the open group, counts for 1995-1996 through 2004-2005 include colleges that had 

applied for but not yet been given full NCAA membership status; counts for 1991-1992 

through 1994-1995 do not include such colleges. 

Open-group participant counts for 1995-1996 through 1998-1999 are NCAA estimates 

based on athletic records collected by schools to meet the requirements of the Equity in 

Athletics Disclosure Act. 

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Contents 

Letter 1

Appendix I Briefing Slides 5 

Appendix II Scope and Methodology 26 

NCAA Open-Group Athletic Data 29 

NCAA Closed-Group Athletic Data 30 

Sport-by-Sport Analyses 31 

Department of Education Enrollment Data 33 

Appendix III Schools Included in the Open Group 35 

Appendix IV Schools Included in the Closed Group 50 

Appendix V Comments from the Department of Education 61 

Appendix VI GAO Contact and Staff Acknowledgments 63 

Related GAO Products 64 

Tables 

Table 1: Availability of Team and Participant Data from Various 

Sources 29

Table 2: Sports Included in the NCAA Report and Analyzed for This 

Report 33

Table 3: Open-Group Schools (state abbreviation) 35 

Table 4: Closed-Group Schools (state abbreviation) 50 

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Abbreviations 

A & M Agricultural and Mechanical 

A & T Agricultural and Technical 

CUNY (The) City University of New York 

EADA Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act 

Education Department of Education 

IPEDS Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System 

NAIA National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics 

NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association 

NCCAA National Christian College Athletic Association 

NCES National Center for Education Statistics 

NFHS National Federation of State High School Associations 

NJCAA National Junior College Athletic Association 

SUNY (The) State University of New York 

USCAA United States Collegiate Athletic Association 

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United States Government Accountability Office

Washington, DC 20548 

July 12, 2007

The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy 

Chairman Chairman 

The Honorable Michael B. Enzi 

Ranking Member 

Committee on Health, E Committee on Health, Education, L ducation, Labor, and Pen bor, and Pensions 

United States Senate 

The Honorable Joseph I. Lieberman 

Chairman Chairman 

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

United States Senate 

The Honorable George Miller 

Chairman Chairman 

The Honorable Howard P. “Buck” McKeon 

Ranking Member 

Committee on Education and Labor

House of Representatives 

The Honorable Patty Murray 

United States Senate 

Since the 1970s, the roles of women as both students and athletes at 

colleges and universities have changed significantly. In particular, 

women’s undergraduate enrollment has increased more than twice as fast 

as men’s since 1970, and, by 1978, female enrollment surpassed male 

enrollment for the first time. During this same time period, women’s 

opportunities in college athletics have increased as well, both in terms of 

the number of female participants and the number of women’s teams. 

Since the 1970s, the roles of women as both students and athletes at 

colleges and universities have changed significantly. In particular, 

women’s undergraduate enrollment has increased more than twice as fast 

as men’s since 1970, and, by 1978, female enrollment surpassed male 

enrollment for the first time. During this same time period, women’s 

opportunities in college athletics have increased as well, both in terms of 

the number of female participants and the number of women’s teams. 

These changes have generated public interest in whether women 

participate in athletics at comparable levels to men and whether men’s 

opportunities have decreased as a result of increased opportunities for 

women. To explore these issues, we addressed the following two 

questions under the Comptroller General’s authority: 

These changes have generated public interest in whether women 

participate in athletics at comparable levels to men and whether men’s 

opportunities have decreased as a result of increased opportunities for 

women. To explore these issues, we addressed the following two 

questions under the Comptroller General’s authority: 

• To what extent have the numbers of men’s and women’s intercollegiate 

sports teams at 4-year schools changed in recent years? 

• To what extent have the numbers of men’s and women’s intercollegiate 

sports teams at 4-year schools changed in recent years? 

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• To what extent have the numbers of male and female participants in 

intercollegiate sports at 4-year schools changed in recent years? 

During the week of March 26–30, 2007, we briefed interested congressional 

staff on the results of our study, and this report formally conveys 

information provided during those briefings. In general, we found that 

women exhibited greater gains than men in athletic opportunities from the 

1991-1992 to 2004-2005 school years. More specifically, we found that: 

• The number of women’s teams showed large increases over the period 

and surpassed the number of men’s teams by the mid-to-late 1990s. For 

example, the number of women’s golf, lacrosse, and soccer teams more 

than doubled from 1991-1992 to 2004-2005. The overall number of 

men’s teams showed more modest increases, with the number of 

wrestling teams actually decreasing over the period. 

• The numbers of both male and female participants steadily increased 

from 1991-1992 to 2004-2005. Female participants did show larger rates 

of increase, but men’s participation levels were greater than women’s, 

both in absolute terms and relative to their respective enrollments, 

throughout this time period. Female participation increased from 

1991-1992 levels more than female enrollment, whereas male 

participation increased at rates similar to male enrollment. However, at 

the school level, overall athletic participation rates were significantly1

greater for men in at least three out of four coed colleges and 

universities from 1991-1992 to 2004-2005. 

To determine these changes in the numbers of teams and participants at 

4-year schools, we obtained athletic data from the National Collegiate

Athletics Association (NCAA)2

—the largest athletic association in the 

U.S.—for two groups of colleges and universities: 

• Open Group—This group includes the entire NCAA membership, 

which increased from 847 schools in 1991-1992 to 1,045 schools in 

2004-2005. Data for this group were obtained from the NCAA’s 

published reports on sports sponsorship and participation. Trends 

observed for this group may reflect both school-level decisions to add, 

drop, expand, or contract teams and changes in NCAA membership. 

 1

 “Significantly” designates 5 percentage points or greater. 

2

 We used NCAA data because they were the only viable option for analyzing annual 

athletic trends for teams and participants over an extended period. 

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• Closed Group—This group includes the 750 colleges and universities 

that were consistent members of the NCAA throughout the time period3

and that consistently reported team and participant information in each 

year. Data for this group were customized by the NCAA for this report. 

Trends observed for this group reflect school-level decisions only. 

For our report, we examined all 27 NCAA sports that were consistently 

reported throughout the time period, and we reviewed full-time 

undergraduate enrollment data from the Department of Education for both 

groups of schools to understand the context for the athletic trends.4

 To 

determine the reliability of the athletic data, we interviewed NCAA 

officials, assessed the process by which the data were collected, 

performed internal consistency checks, examined year-to-year 

fluctuations, and compared equivalent items across the open and closed 

groups. To assess the reliability of enrollment data, we reviewed a data

reliability study conducted by the department and performed internal 

quality control checks on the enrollment data. Through this process, we 

determined that both the athletic and enrollment data we used were 

reliable for the purposes of this report. For additional information on our

study review, please see appendix II. For additional results of our analysis 

by sport, please see GAO–07–744SP.

5

 We conducted our work from 

December 2005 to June 2007 in accordance with generally accepted 

government auditing standards. 

This study focused on recent team and participant trends in intercollegiate 

sports for both men and women.6

 We did not assess the extent to which 

these trends may be caused or affected by external factors—such as 

gender-equity concerns, budget fluctuations, changes in high school and 

college student populations, or the popularity of any one sport—because 

this was beyond the scope of our work. In addition, available data did not 

 3

These schools were not members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

(NAIA). 

4

Schools in our study varied in the number of NCAA sports they sponsored. 

5

GAO, Intercollegiate Athletics: Trends by Sport in National Collegiate Athletic

Association Sports, GAO–07–744SP (Washington, D.C.: June 2007). 

6

This report measures trends in teams and participants in intercollegiate athletics. In 

contrast, the Department of Education has separate standards it uses to determine whether 

institutions of higher education provide equal athletic opportunity for members of both

sexes pursuant to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. §§1681–88).

This report does not address—and is not intended to address—compliance with federal 

laws or regulations. 

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allow us to assess the causal relationship between athletic trends and 

these external factors. 

We provided a draft of this report to officials of the U.S. Department of 

Education for review and comment, and also for technical review. In 

written comments on our draft report, Education did not explicitly agree 

or disagree with our findings, but did highlight our finding that men had 

greater overall participation levels than women throughout our study 

period, both in absolute terms and relative to their respective enrollments. 

Education also recommended that we include a footnote clarifying that 

the measures used in this report are distinct from the department’s 

standards for assessing compliance with federal laws, and we included 

footnote 6 above. Education further explained that it measures whether 

equal athletic opportunities are provided to men and women based on the 

number of athletic participants, but not the number of teams sponsored. In 

particular, Education said that one of the measures the department uses to 

assess a school’s compliance with federal laws is whether the percent of 

male and female athletes at the school is “substantially proportionate” to 

the percent of male and female students enrolled in the school. 

Education’s written comments appear in appendix V. We also

incorporated Education’s technical comments, where appropriate. 

Because they are technical and not substantive in nature, they are not 

published in this report. 

We also provided a draft of this report to NCAA officials for technical 

review and incorporated their technical comments, where appropriate. 

We are sending copies of this report to relevant congressional committees 

and other interested parties and will make copies available to others upon 

request. In addition, this report will be available at no charge on GAO’s 

Web site at http://www.gao.gov. If you or your staff has any questions 

about this report, please contact me at (202) 512–7215 or ScottG@gao.gov. 

Contact points for our Offices of Congressional Relations and Public 

Affairs may be found on the last page of this report. Other major 

contributors to this report are listed in appendix VI. 

George A. Scott 

Director, Education, Workforce, 

 and Income Security Issues 

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Appendix I: Briefing Slides Appendix I: Briefing Slides 

1

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS:

Recent Trends

in Teams and Participants

in National Collegiate Athletic 

Association Sports

Briefing to Congressional Staff

March 2007

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Appendix I: Briefing Slides 

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2

Overview

• Introduction

• Research Questions

• Scope and Methodology

• Summary of Key Findings

• Background

• Findings 

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3

Introduction

More women than men are enrolling in college, and there 

has been public interest in the extent to which similar 

trends exist in college athletics.

• Since 1970, women’s undergraduate enrollment has increased 

more than twice as fast as men’s. In 1978, female enrollment 

surpassed male enrollment for the very first time.

• During this same time period, women’s participation in college

athletics and the number of women’s teams also increased.

• Given these changes, concerns exist as to whether women 

participate in athletics at comparable levels to men and whether

men’s opportunities have decreased as a result of the increase 

in opportunities for women.

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Research Questions

To explore these issues, we developed two research

questions.

• To what extent have the numbers of men’s and women’s 

intercollegiate sports teams at 4-year schools changed in recent 

years?

• To what extent have the numbers of male and female 

participants in intercollegiate sports at 4-year schools changed 

in recent years?*

* This report measures trends in teams and participants in intercollegiate athletics. In contrast, the Department

of Education has separate standards it uses to determine whether institutions of higher education provide 

equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes pursuant to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 

1972 (20 U.S.C. §§1681–88). This report does not address—and is not intended to address—compliance with

federal laws or regulations.

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Scope and Methodology

To answer these questions, we analyzed athletic data 

from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 

for two groups of 4-year schools.

• We analyzed NCAA data* for school years 1991/92 through 

2004/05** reflecting two groups of schools:

3⁄4 Open group – the entire NCAA membership (from 847 

schools in 1991/92 to 1,045 schools in 2004/05)

3⁄4 Closed group – the 750 schools that were NCAA members 

throughout this time period*** and consistently reported 

team and participant data each year.

• We used a published NCAA report for the open group, and the 

NCAA provided us customized data for the closed group.

* Over 70 percent of 4-year schools participating in intercollegiate athletics were members of the NCAA in 2005. 

The other major intercollegiate athletic associations and the Department of Education have also collected

athletic data, but the earliest data these sources currently have is for the 2000/01 school year.

** The NCAA no longer has complete closed-group data for before 1991/92. The 2004/05 school year was the 

most recent year available for NCAA members as of this writing.

*** These schools were not members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

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Scope and Methodology

Trends for the two groups can reflect different 

influences on athletics.

School-level

decisions only

Customized Fixed

NCAA data

Closed group

School-level

decisions and the 

changing NCAA

membership

Annual Varying

NCAA

publication

Open group

What trends

will reflect

Number

of schools

per year

Source

of data

Group of 

schools

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Scope and Methodology

We also reviewed earlier NCAA open-group data and 

analyzed enrollment data to provide underlying context 

to the athletic trends.

• We reviewed open-group data covering the entire NCAA 

membership from 1981/82 through 1990/91.*

• In addition, we examined full-time, undergraduate enrollment

data from the Department of Education to understand the 

context for the athletic trends.

• We interviewed NCAA officials and performed internal quality 

control checks on both the athletic and enrollment data and 

determined that these data were reliable for the purposes of this

report.

• Our review was conducted in accordance with generally

accepted government auditing standards.

* The number of schools included during this time period ranged from 752 in 1981/82 to 828 in 1990/91.

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• The number of women’s teams increased substantially after 

1991/92, and men’s teams showed modest increases.

3⁄4 There have been more women’s than men’s teams since the 

mid-to-late 1990s.

• The numbers of both male and female participants increased 

after 1991/92, with female participants showing greater rates of

increase. 

3⁄4 However, from 1991/92 to 2004/05, there were fewer female 

participants than male participants both in absolute terms 

and relative to their respective enrollments.

Summary of Key Findings

Women exhibited greater gains than men in athletic 

opportunities in both the open and closed groups from

1991/92 to 2004/05.

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Background

Athletics trends can vary for different groups of schools

and different time periods, as found in previous GAO

reports.

Increases for women, 

Increases for men

Teams and 

participants

1981/82

to

1998/99

2001 Open

Increases for women,

Decreases for men

1971/72 Participants

to

1997/98

2000 Open

Increases for women, 

Decreases for men

Teams and 

participants

1985/86

to

1996/97

1999 Closed

Findings

Outcomes

measured

School

years 

covered

Group of 

schools 

analyzed

GAO 

report

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Findings: Teams

Men’s and women’s teams increased from 1991/92 to 

2004/05, with women’s teams showing greater gains.

• The numbers of both men’s and women’s teams increased from 

1991/92 to 2004/05, with women’s teams showing larger 

increases in both the open group of the entire NCAA

membership and the closed group of colleges that were 

consistent members of the NCAA throughout this period. 

3⁄4 However, there were fluctuations from year to year.

• The number of women’s teams surpassed the number of men’s 

teams in the 1990s in both groups.

• The number of teams increased for more women’s sports over

this time period, and one men’s sport (wrestling) had a decrease 

in both groups (open: –19%; closed: –21%), but trends varied by

sport.

3⁄4 For example, men’s lacrosse increased by 25 percent or 

more in both groups, while men’s swimming / diving

increased by less than 5 percent in both groups.

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Findings: Teams

The number of women’s teams surpassed the number of 

men’s teams during the 1990s.

Notes: (1) These counts reflect the sum of teams in the individual sports that were consistently reported throughout the time period.

(2) For the open group, counts for 1995/96 through 2004/05 include schools that had applied for but not yet been given full membership status.

Counts for 1991/92 through 1994/95 do not include such schools.

(3) For the open group, there were 6,401 men’s teams and 4,522 women’s teams in 1981/82.

Closed-group data for this period are unavailable.

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Findings: Men’s Teams, by Sport

Many men’s sports showed mixed or small changes*,

and several others showed increases, in the number of 

teams from 1991/92 to 2004/05.

* “Mixed or small trend changes” designates sports that had changes of 5 percent or more in one direction in one group but also 5 

percent or more in the opposite direction in the other group, or sports that had changes of less than 5 percent in either group.

Source: GAO analysis of NCAA data; icons provided by Art Explosion.

Baseball Wrestling

Basketball

Football

Soccer

Swimming / Diving

Tennis

Volleyball

Cross Country

Golf

Ice Hockey

Lacrosse

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Baseball Wrestling

Basketball

Football

Soccer

Swimming / Diving

Tennis

Volleyball

Cross Country

Golf

Ice Hockey

Lacrosse

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Gains

of 5%

or more

in both

groups

Losses

of 5%

or more

in both 

groups

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Findings: Women’s Teams, by Sport

Most women’s sports showed increases* in teams from

1991/92 to 2004/05.

* Increases in the number of teams of 5 percent or more.

** “Mixed or small trend changes” designates sports that had changes of 5 percent or more in one direction in one group but also 

5 percent or more in the opposite direction in the other group, or sports that had changes of less than 5 percent in either group.

Source: GAO analysis of NCAA data; icons provided by Art Explosion.

Basketball <none>

Gymnastics

Cross Country

Field Hockey

Golf

Lacrosse

Soccer

Softball

Swimming / Diving

Tennis

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Volleyball

Basketball <none>

Gymnastics

Cross Country

Field Hockey

Golf

Lacrosse

Soccer

Softball

Swimming / Diving

Tennis

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Volleyball

Gains

of 5%

or more

in both

groups

Losses

of 5%

or more

in both 

groups

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Findings: Participants

The numbers of male and female participants increased

after 1991/92, but men’s participation levels were greater 

than women’s from 1991/92 to 2004/05.

• Overall, the numbers of both male and female participants 

increased from 1991/92 to 2004/05 in both groups.

3⁄4 However, there were fluctuations from year to year.

• More women’s sports had increases in participants over this

time period, and one men’s sport (wrestling) had a decrease in 

both groups (open: –13%; closed: –15%), but trends varied by 

sport.

3⁄4 For example, women’s soccer increased by 135 percent or 

more in both groups, while women’s tennis increased by 

less than 20 percent in both groups.

• The increase in female athletic participants was much greater 

than the increase in female enrollment over this time period. 

However, men had greater overall participation levels than 

women from 1991/92 to 2004/05, both in absolute terms and 

relative to their respective enrollments.

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Findings: Participants

In both groups, the number of female participants grew 

faster than the number of male participants.

Notes: (1) These counts reflect the sum of the number of individuals participating in each of the individual sports that were consistently reported

throughout the time period. To the extent that some athletes participated on more than one team, the number of participants may be overstated.

(2) For the open group, counts for 1995/96 through 2004/05 include schools that had applied for but not yet been given full membership status.

Counts for 1991/92 through 1994/95 do not include such schools.

(3) Open-group participant counts for 1995/96 through 1998/99 are NCAA estimates based on athletic records collected by schools to meet the

requirements of the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA).

(4) For the open group, there were 161,632 male participants and 70,526 female participants in 1981/82.

Closed-group data for this period are unavailable.

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Findings: Male Participants, by Sport

Half of the men’s sports showed increases*, and several

others showed mixed or small trend changes, in the 

number of participants from 1991/92 to 2004/05.

Source: GAO analysis of NCAA data; icons provided by Art Explosion.

* Increases in the number of participants of 5 percent or more.

** “Mixed or small trend changes” designates sports that had changes of 5 percent or more in one direction in one group but also

5 percent or more in the opposite direction in the other group, or sports that had changes of less than 5 percent in either group.

Basketball Wrestling

Volleyball

Cross Country

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Wrestling

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Soccer Swimming / Diving

Tennis

Cross Country

Golf

Lacrosse Ice Hockey

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Gains

of 5%

or more

in both

groups

Losses

of 5%

oror mo morree

in both

groups

Basketball Wrestling

Volleyball

Cross Country

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Wrestling

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Soccer Swimming / Diving

Tennis

Cross Country

Golf

Lacrosse Ice Hockey

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Gains

of 5%

or more

in both

groups

Losses

of 5%

oror mo morree

in both

groups

Basketball Wrestling

Volleyball

Cross Country

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Wrestling

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Soccer Swimming / Diving

Tennis

Cross Country

Golf

Lacrosse Ice Hockey

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Gains

of 5%

or more

in both

groups

Losses

of 5%

oror mo morree

in both

groups

Basketball Wrestling

Volleyball

Cross Country

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Wrestling

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Soccer Swimming / Diving

Tennis

Cross Country

Golf

Lacrosse Ice Hockey

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Gains

of 5%

or more

in both

groups

Losses

of 5%

oror mo morree

in both

groups

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Findings: Female Participants, by Sport

Similar to teams, most women’s sports showed

increases* in participants from 1991/92 to 2004/05.

Source: GAO analysis of NCAA data; icons provided by Art Explosion.

* Increases in the number of participants of 5 percent or more.

** “Mixed or small trend changes” designates sports that had changes of 5 percent or more in one direction in one group but also

5 percent or more in the opposite direction in the other group, or sports that had changes of less than 5 percent in either group.

Basketball Tennis <none>

Cross Country

Field Hockey

Golf

Gymnastics

Lacrosse

Soccer

Softball

Swimming / Diving

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Volleyball

Basketball Tennis <none>

Cross Country

Field Hockey

Golf

Gymnastics

Lacrosse

Soccer

Softball

Swimming / Diving

Indoor Track

Outdoor Track

Volleyball

Gains

of 5%

or more

in both

groups

Losses

of 5%

or more 

in both

groups

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Findings: Participation vs. Enrollment

Female participation grew at a faster rate than female

enrollment, but overall participation levels were greater 

for men from 1991/92 to 2004/05.

• In both the open and closed groups, the increase in male

participation was similar to the increase in male enrollment, 

relative to their 1991/92 levels, whereas the increase in female

participation was more than the increase in female enrollment.

• From 1991/92 to 2004/05, men had significantly greater 

participation in athletics than women in at least 3 out of 4 coed 

schools in the closed group.

3⁄4 This is both in absolute terms and relative to their respective

enrollments.

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Findings: Participation vs. Enrollment

In the open group, male participation in athletics

followed a trend similar to male enrollment, but female

participation grew more than female enrollment.

Notes: (1) Participation reflects the sum of the number of individuals participating in each of the individual sports that were consistently reported

throughout the time period.

(2) Participation for 1995/96 through 2004/05 includes schools that had applied for but not yet been given full membership status.

Participation for 1991/92 through 1994/95 does not include such schools.

(3) Participation for 1995/96 through 1998/99 is derived from NCAA estimates based on athletic records collected by schools to meet the

requirements of the EADA.

(4) Enrollment reflects full-time, undergraduate enrollment.

(5) Enrollment data for 1999/00 is not available for aggregate purposes.

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Findings: Participation vs. Enrollment

In the closed group, male participation in athletics

followed a trend similar to male enrollment, but female

participation grew more than female enrollment.

Notes: (1) Participation reflects the sum of the number of individuals participating in each of the individual sports that were consistently reported 

throughout the time period.

(2) Enrollment reflects full-time, undergraduate enrollment.

(3) Enrollment data for 1999/00 is not available for aggregate purposes.

(4) Of the 750 schools in the closed group, 14 reported to the Department of Education that they were also members of smaller athletic

organizations in 2004/05. To the extent that these schools did not report comprehensive athletic participation for their students to the

NCAA, the percentage changes presented in this graph may be over- or understated.

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Findings: Participation vs. Enrollment

From 1991/92 to 2004/05, men had significantly* greater 

participation in athletics, relative to their enrollment, in

at least 3 out of 4 coed schools in the closed group.

Notes: * “Significantly” designates 5 percentage points or greater.

(1) Participation reflects the sum of the number of individuals participating in each of the individual sports that were consistently reported 

throughout the time period.

(2) Enrollment reflects full-time, undergraduate enrollment at the 715 schools of the closed group with both male and female enrollment of at

least 100. Separate campuses that reported enrollment jointly were treated as one unit.

(3) An analysis for the open group was not conducted because the published NCAA report does not provide the necessary information.

(4) Of the 750 schools in the closed group, 14 reported that they were also members of smaller athletic organizations. To the extent that these

schools did not report comprehensive athletic participation for their students to the NCAA, the proportions may be over- or understated.

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Appendix II: Scope and Methodology Appendix II: Scope and Methodology 

To determine the recent trends in teams and participants in intercollegiate 

athletics, we analyzed athletic data from the National Collegiate Athletics

Association (NCAA) and enrollment data from the department of 

Education (Education) for two groups of colleges and universities: 

• Open Group—This group includes the entire NCAA membership, 

which increased from 847 schools in the 1991-1992 school year to 1,045 

schools in the 2004-2005 school year. Observed trends for this group 

will reflect both school-level sports sponsorship decisions and changes 

in NCAA membership. The primary source of athletic data for this 

group was the NCAA’s 1981-82 to 2004-05 Sports Sponsorship and 

Participation Rates Report, which is available from the NCAA Web 

site 

(http://www2.ncaa.org/portal/media_and_events/ncaa_publications/res

earch). Data from this publication were modified for the purposes of 

this report via correspondence with NCAA officials, as discussed 

below. The source of aggregate enrollment data for this group was 

Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 

Peer Analysis System, also available on the Internet 

(http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas). See appendix III for the list of schools 

that were included in the open group at any time during the study 

period. 

• Closed Group—This group includes the fixed group of 750 colleges 

and universities that were consistent members of the NCAA throughout 

the time period, that were not members of the National Association of 

Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) at any time during the time period,1

and that reported team and participant information in each year of our 

time period. The NCAA analyzed its internal school-level data and 

provided us customized team and participant aggregate statistics for 

use in this report, as discussed hereafter. The source of enrollment 

data for this group was also Education’s IPEDS Peer Analysis System. 

For the school-level comparison between athletic participation and 

enrollment, we provided the NCAA school-level enrollment data for its 

members from IPEDS, and the NCAA used these data in concert with 

its school-level athletic data to generate the results of this comparison. 

See appendix IV for the list of 750 schools that were included in the 

closed group. 

 1

The NAIA is the second-largest national intercollegiate association in the United States. 

We eliminated colleges and universities that were joint members of the NCAA and NAIA to 

reduce the possibility of schools not having reported complete information to the NCAA. 

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Annual athletic data for the open group are available from the NCAA for 

the 1981-1982 through 2004-2005 school years, but data for the closed 

group are available only for the 1991-1992 through 2004-2005 school years.

Thus, the focus of this report is on the 1991-1992 through 2004-2005 

period. For both groups, total participant counts reflect the sum of the 

number of individuals participating in each of the individual sports that 

were consistently reported throughout the time period. To the extent that

some athletes participated on more than one team, the number of 

participants may be overstated. 

Enrollment data are available from Education from the 1991-1992 through

1998-1999 and 2000-2001 through 2004-2005 school years; data for the 

1999-2000 school year for aggregate analysis have not been publicly 

released, and Education has no plans to release such data in the future.2

 As 

a result, enrollment data for this school year were omitted from the 

aggregate comparisons between athletic participation and enrollment 

provided on slides 19 and 20 of appendix I. However, school-level data for 

school-level analysis are available for 1999-2000, so this year was included 

for schools reporting enrollment data for the school-level comparison 

provided on slide 21 of appendix I. 

We interviewed NCAA officials and performed internal quality control 

checks on both the athletic and enrollment data and determined that these 

data were reliable for the purposes of this report. We conducted our work 

from December 2005 to June 2007 in accordance with generally accepted 

government auditing standards. 

We did not assess the extent to which these trends may be caused or 

affected by external factors—such as gender-equity concerns, budget 

fluctuations, changes in high school and college student populations, or 

the popularity of any one sport—because this was beyond the scope of our 

work. However, in 2001 we presented reasons self-reported by school 

administrators for why teams were added and dropped.3

 Also, the 

 2

Officials from Education note that the agency did not complete reliability testing of data

for the 1999-2000 school year because reporting rates were particularly low for this year. 

Please see the associated discussion in “Department of Education Enrollment Data” below. 

3

For more information, see GAO, Intercollegiate Athletics: Four-Year Colleges’

Experiences Adding and Discontinuing Teams, GAO–01–297 (Washington, D.C.: March 8, 

2001). 

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introduction to the NCAA sports sponsorship and participation report 

presents several other potentially influential factors as well. 

For this report, we examined the possibility of using data from the other 

national athletic associations—including the NAIA, the National Christian 

College Athletic Association (NCCAA), the National Junior College 

Athletic Association (NJCAA), and the United States Collegiate Athletic 

Association (USCAA)—as well as individual athletic conferences (e.g., Big

Ten Conference), institutions of higher education, the National Federation

of State High School Associations (NFHS), and state governing 

organizations for high schools. We found that nationally representative 

team and participant annual data are not systematically available at either

the college or high school level for before the 2000-2001 school year.4

Education now collects and stores athletic team and participant data via 

the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA), but Education does not 

have these data for before the 2000-2001 school year. Furthermore, 

Education officials expressed some concerns about the reliability of EADA 

data.5

 Thus, we determined that the NCAA data were the only viable option 

for analyzing annual athletic trends for teams and participants for both 

open and closed groups of colleges and universities over an extended 

period. 

 4

 The EADA generally requires institutions of higher education to annually collect and make 

publicly available team, participant, and other athletic data for the immediately preceding

school year starting in October 1996 for the 1995-1996 school year. However, the EADA 

does not require institutions to retain those data for subsequent years. 

5

 For example, the definition of “reporting year” has varied from school to school, with 

some schools reporting over an 8 month period, and other schools reporting over different

12 month periods. Education noted that the very first year of data collection (2000-2001) 

was particularly problematic because submissions varied dramatically from school to

school and for other reasons. 

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Table 1: Availability of Team and Participant Data from Various Sources 

Availability of information, by source 

Information required Schools Conferences Athletic associations Education

Number of men’s and 

women's sports teams, 

by school 

Media guides 

(data quality may 

vary by year and by 

gender) 

EADA records

Annual reports for all 

years 

NCAA: 

NAIA: 

NCCAA:

USCAA 

NJCAA: 

NFHS: 

1991-1992 – present 

2000-2001 – present 

Not available 

2004-2005 – present 

2004-2005 – present 

Not available 

EADA data for

2000-2001 – present 

Numbers of men and 

women participating in

school sports, by school 

Media guides and 

squad lists 

(data quality may 

vary by year and by 

gender) 

EADA records

Not available NCAA: 

NAIA: 

NCCAA:

USCAA 

NJCAA: 

NFHS: 

1991-1992 – present 

2000-2001 – present 

Not available 

2004-2005 – present 

2004-2005 – present 

Not available 

EADA data for

2000-2001 – present 

Men’s and women’s 

sports teams and 

participants, in aggregate 

Not available Not available NCAA: 

NAIA: 

NCCAA:

USCAA 

NJCAA: 

NFHS: 

1981-1982 – present 

Unknown 

1994-1995 – present 

2001-2002 – present 

2000-2001 – present 

1971-1972 – present 

EADA data for

2000-2001 – present 

Source: GAO interviews with school, conference, association, and Education officials. 

The NCAA’s 1981-82 to 2004-05 Sports Sponsorship and Participation 

Rates Report provides annual data on the number of teams sponsored and 

the number of participants by sport and in aggregate for all men’s (27) and 

women’s (27) sports sponsored by the NCAA. Please see this original 

report for variable definitions and factors influencing historical trends, 

such as changes in data collection procedures that occurred between 

1981-1982 and 2004-2005. This NCAA report is based on reports provided 

by schools to the NCAA each year,6 and the NCAA uses these school 

reports to help manage its sports championships, scholarships, and 

divisional championship realignment. We used the team and participant 

data directly from the NCAA report.

NCAA Open-Group 

Athletic Data 

 6

 For school years 1991-1992 through 1994-1995 and 1999-2000 through 2004-2005, the

report uses annual NCAA membership reports provided by schools. For school years 1995-

1996 through 1998-1999, the report is based on athletic records collected by schools to 

meet the requirements of the EADA. 

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Because the NCAA membership has changed annually, changes in the 

aggregate figures for the NCAA may reflect both school-level decisions to 

add, drop, expand, or contract teams and the changing membership itself. 

We modified some data presented in the tables of the NCAA report to 

resolve apparent inconsistencies and unexplained fluctuations of those 

published data. With regard to consistency, we compared aggregate 

figures for each sport to the sum of disaggregated figures for the 

corresponding sports. Where internal inconsistency or large and 

unexplained fluctuations (e.g., apparent numerical typographical errors) 

were found, we determined, in concert with NCAA officials, whether and 

how to correct those data to resolve those inconsistencies. With regard to 

fluctuations, we examined year-to-year fluctuations in the athletic data for 

each sport and in aggregate. Where large and unexplained fluctuations 

were found—such as with the case of apparent numerical/typographical 

errors—we determined, in concert with NCAA officials, whether and how 

to correct those data as well. Thus, there are a small number of data points 

used for this report that differ from what is published in the NCAA report. 

To isolate the effect of school-level decisions to add, drop, expand, or 

contract sport teams on athletic trends from (a) the changing NCAA 

membership, (b) the effect of schools being members of both the NCAA 

and another athletic association and not reporting comprehensive athletic

information to the NCAA, and (c) inconsistent annual reporting by certain 

schools, we constructed, in concert with the NCAA, a fixed, or “closed,” 

group of schools that met all three (3) of the following criteria: 

NCAA Closed-Group 

Athletic Data 

• They were members of the NCAA in each year from 1991-1992 to 

2004-2005. 

• They were not also members of the second-largest athletic association, 

the NAIA, in any year from 1991-1992 to 2004-2005. 

• They reported team and participant information in each year from 

1991-1992 to 2004-2005. 

This yielded a group of 750 schools, or just over 88 percent of the overall 

NCAA membership in 1991-1992 and just under 72 percent of the overall 

membership in 2004-2005. Of this group, 14 schools reported to Education 

via IPEDS that they were also members of an athletic organization other 

than the NAIA in at least one year of our study period. To the extent that 

these schools progressively reported more of their female sport 

information to the NCAA over time, increases in female trends relative to 

male trends may be slightly overstated. To the extent that these schools 

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progressively reported more of their male sport information over time, 

increases in female trends relative to male trends may be slightly 

understated.

The NCAA has retained school-level team and participant data for its 

entire membership from the 1991-1992 school year to the present. Because 

the NCAA classifies its school-level information as private, the NCAA 

analyzed team and participant data for this closed group in-house and then

provided aggregate figures for this closed group and the programming 

code used to generate these figures. NCAA officials noted that data for 

school years 1993-1994, 1998-1999, and 2000-2001 may be slightly less 

consistent than data for the other school years of the study period. We 

reviewed the NCAA’s programming code and had the NCAA make 

adjustments and corrections where necessary. We examined the internal 

consistency of the data for the closed group that resulted from this code 

by comparing aggregate figures to the sum of disaggregated figures and by

examining year-to-year fluctuations in the athletic data. We also compared 

figures for the closed-group to the equivalent figures for the open group. 

Where internal inconsistency, inconsistency between the open and closed

group, or large and unexplained fluctuations were found, we eliminated 

those data from our analysis, as discussed below. Through our assessment 

and the elimination of inconsistent data, we determined that data used for 

the closed group were sufficient for the purposes of our report. 

Our sport-by-sport and aggregate figures reflect the 14 men’s and 13 

women’s sports that had team and participant information reported 

throughout the study period, that are comparable across the open and 

closed groups, and for which male and female data exist separately. This

report does not contain all the results of our trend analysis. A more 

detailed analysis by sport can be viewed at GAO–07–744SP. 

Sport-by-Sport 

Analyses 

With regard to reporting consistency, the NCAA has retained historical 

figures for each of its sports for each year in which either the sport was 

identified as emerging or the NCAA held a championship for that sport as 

well as various other years. To the extent that several sports have emerged

or added a championship since the 1991-1992 school year, data tend to be

more comprehensive across the 54 NCAA sports in recent years relative to

the beginning of our study period. However, to become an emerging sport,

there must already be 20 or more NCAA-sponsored and/or competitive 

club teams that exist in that sport, and there must be other signs of 

sustained and increasing interest in the sport. Thus, nonentries in a given 

year of NCAA data do not necessarily reflect a lack of sponsorship or 

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participation in that year. Furthermore, several sports have data for the 

beginning and end of our study period, but not the intervening years. To 

account for the inconsistency of reporting across sports and across time, 

the NCAA included in its customized data only the subset of sports for 

which data were reported in each year of the study period. 

To enable a direct comparison between the open and closed groups, we 

analyzed only those sports for which data existed in each year and in both 

the open and closed groups. The sports included in the closed-group data 

narrowed the list of included sports substantially, but we also compared 

figures across the two groups for external consistency as well. In 

particular, we eliminated four sports where aggregate figures for the 

closed group were larger than aggregate figures for the open group, which 

is impossible by construction. 

With regard to the reporting of male and female participant counts, the 

NCAA has reported male and female athletic data for coed/mixed-gender 

sports differently over time. For some years, overall participant counts for 

mixed-gender sports were divided in half when allocated to male and 

female participant counts, and for other years actual counts were 

recorded. Because of this inconsistency in reporting, participant counts 

for sports such as fencing, rifle, and skiing for certain years may not 

reflect actual male and female participants, and thus these sports were not 

included in this report. In summary, the sports we analyzed 

(a) have data reported in each year of the study period, 

(b) were common to or reported in both groups of data analyzed 

(open group and closed group), and 

(c) excluded certain coed-mixed gender sports because of inconsistent 

reporting across the study period. 

Ultimately, this yielded the 14 men’s and 13 women’s sports analyzed in 

this report, whose participants reflect 98 percent of the NCAA’s overall 

male participation and 99 percent of the overall female participation in 

1991-1992, and 99 percent and 93 percent of male and female participation, 

respectively, in 2004-2005. See Table 2 for the sports included in the NCAA 

report and analyzed for this report. 

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Table 2: Sports Included in the NCAA Report and Analyzed for This Report 

Men’s sports included in both 

the NCAA and GAO reports 

(14) 

Men’s sports included 

only in the NCAA report 

(13) 

Women’s sports included in 

both the NCAA and GAO reports 

(13) 

Women’s sports included 

only in the NCAA report 

(14) 

Baseball 

Basketball 

Cross-Country

Football 

Golf 

Ice Hockey 

Lacrosse 

Soccer 

Swimming/Diving 

Tennis 

Track, Indoor 

Track, Outdoor 

Volleyball 

Wrestling 

Archery 

Badminton 

Bowling 

Equestrian 

Fencing 

Gymnastics 

Rifle 

Rowing 

Rugby 

Sailing 

Skiing 

Squash 

Water Polo 

Basketball 

Cross-Country

Field Hockey 

Golf 

Gymnastics 

Lacrosse 

Soccer 

Softball 

Swimming/Diving 

Tennis 

Track, Indoor 

Track, Outdoor 

Volleyball 

Archery 

Badminton 

Bowling 

Equestrian 

Fencing 

Ice Hockey 

Rifle 

Rowing 

Rugby 

Skiing 

Squash 

Synchronized Swimming

Team Handball

Water Polo 

Source: GAO analysis.

For both aggregate and school-level enrollment, we obtained full-time, 

undergraduate enrollment data from IPEDS, which is the core 

postsecondary education data collection program for the National Center 

for Education Statistics (NCES), which, in turn, is the primary federal 

entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. Specifically, 

IPEDS is a single, comprehensive system of surveys designed to collect 

institution-level data from all primary providers of postsecondary 

education in such areas as student enrollment and program completion, 

faculty and staff characteristics, and school finances. We obtained 

aggregate enrollment data for both the open and closed groups based on 

the schools listed in the annual NCAA membership directories and the list

of 750 schools included in the closed group. These data are the basis for 

our aggregate comparisons between participation and enrollment, 

presented in slides 19 and 20 of appendix I. Officials from Education noted 

that the agency did not complete data reliability testing for the purpose of 

extrapolating reported institutional data from the 1999-2000 school year to 

generate aggregate figures because reporting for this earlier period was 

optional to the schools and reporting rates were particularly low for this 

year. Thus, we did not include aggregate figures for 1999-2000 for this 

analysis. 

Department of 

Education Enrollment 

Data 

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For the school-level comparisons between participation and enrollment, 

we provided the NCAA with school-by-school enrollment for each year in 

our study period for schools that reported enrollment information through 

IPEDS in each year and that had male and female enrollment each of at 

least 100 in each year of the study period, characterized as “coed schools.” 

In addition, several college and university campuses reported either 

athletic data to the NCAA or enrollment data to Education jointly with 

other campuses. To ensure the compatibility of athletic and enrollment 

data, we merged the data for these campuses together and treated the 

campuses collectively as one unit. This resulted in enrollment data being 

provided for 715 schools or school-campus combinations in the closed 

group, and the resultant NCAA analysis is what is presented in slide 21 of

appendix I. Although Education has not released enrollment figures for 

1999-2000 for aggregate reporting purposes, officials from Education noted

that data that have been reported are reliable for school-level reporting 

purposes, so 1999-2000 is included in this analysis. 

Because IPEDS data are statistical agency data that are collected and 

audited within the NCES, we focused our reliability testing on the 

consistency between internal NCES data documentation and downloaded 

data, and we examined the consistency of summary statistics and the 

frequency of missing values across years. Our testing found no differences 

between our files and the IPEDS data dictionaries, no unusual increases in

the frequency of missing variables across years (other than for 1999-2000), 

and no changes in the mean or standard deviation of enrollment above 5 

percent and no changes in the maximum or minimum enrollment per 

school above 10 percent from one year to the next. In addition, NCES has 

completed individual data reliability testing for its 1991-1992 through 

2005-2006 data and released a 2005 report detailing the reliability of its 

enrollment data, among other data. (See 

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005175 to access this 

report.) Therefore, we determined that the IPEDS enrollment data are

sufficiently reliable for the purposes of this report. 

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Appendix III: Schools Included in the Open Appendix III: Schools Included in the Open Group 

Group 

The following 1,052 schools were included in the overall NCAA 

membership for at least one year from 1991-1992 to 2004-2005. This list is 

based on the NCAA’s annual membership lists for this period. 

Table 3: Open-Group Schools (state abbreviation) 

Abilene Christian University (Tex.) 

Adams State College (Colo.) 

Adelphi University (N.Y.) 

Adrian College (Mich.) 

Agnes Scott College (Ga.) 

Alabama A & M University (Ala.) 

Alabama State University (Ala.) 

Albany State University (Ga.) 

Albertus Magnus College (Conn.) 

Albion College (Mich.) 

Albright College (Pa.) 

Alcorn State University (Miss.) 

Alderson Broaddus College (W.Va.) 

Alfred University (N.Y.) 

Allegheny College (Pa.) 

Alma College (Mich.) 

Alvernia College (Pa.) 

Alverno College (Wis.) 

American International College (Mass.) 

American University (D.C.) 

American University of Puerto Rico (P.R.) 

Amherst College (Mass.) 

Anderson College (S.C.) 

Anderson University (Ind.) 

Angelo State University (Tex.) 

Anna Maria College (Mass.) 

Appalachian State University (N.C.) 

Arcadia University (Pa.) 

Arizona State University at the Tempe 

Campus (Ariz.)

Arkansas State University-Main Campus 

(Ark.) 

Arkansas Tech University (Ark.) 

Armstrong Atlantic State University (Ga.) 

Asbury College (Ky.) 

Ashland University (Ohio) 

Assumption College (Mass.) 

Auburn University Main Campus (Ala.) 

Augsburg College (Minn.) 

Augusta State University (Ga.) 

Augustana College (Ill.) 

Augustana College (S.D.) 

Aurora University (Ill.) 

Austin College (Tex.) 

Austin Peay State University (Tenn.) 

Averett University (Va.) 

Babson College (Mass.) 

Baldwin-Wallace College (Ohio) 

Ball State University (Ind.) 

Baptist Bible College and Seminary (Pa.)

Bard College (N.Y.) 

Barnard College (N.Y.) 

Barry University (Fla.) 

Barton College (N.C.) 

Bates College (Maine) 

Bay Path College (Mass.) 

Baylor University (Tex.) 

Becker College (Mass.) 

Bellarmine University (Ky.) 

Belmont Abbey College (N.C.)

Belmont University (Tenn.) 

Beloit College (Wis.) 

Bemidji State University (Minn.) 

Benedict College (S.C.) 

Benedictine University (Ill.) 

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Group 

Bennett College (N.C.) 

Bentley College (Mass.) 

Berea College (Ky.) 

Bethany College (W.Va.) 

Bethel University (Minn.) 

Bethune Cookman College (Fla.) 

Birmingham Southern College (Ala.) 

Blackburn College (Ill.) 

Bloomfield College (N.J.) 

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Bluefield State College (W.Va.) 

Bluffton University (Ohio) 

Boise State University (Idaho) 

Boston College (Mass.) 

Boston University (Mass.) 

Bowdoin College (Maine) 

Bowie State University (Md.) 

Bowling Green State University-Main Campus

(Ohio) 

Bradley University (Ill.) 

Brandeis University (Mass.) 

Bridgewater College (Va.) 

Bridgewater State College (Mass.) 

Brigham Young University (Utah) 

Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus 

(Hawaii) 

Brown University (R.I.) 

Bryant University (R.I.) 

Bryn Mawr College (Pa.) 

Bucknell University (Pa.) 

Buena Vista University (Iowa)

Butler University (Ind.) 

Cabrini College (Pa.) 

Caldwell College (N.J.) 

California Institute of Technology (Calif.) 

California Lutheran University (Calif.) 

California Polytechnic State University-San

Luis Obispo (Calif.) 

California State Polytechnic 

University-Pomona (Calif.) 

California State University-Bakersfield 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Chico (Calif.) 

California State University-Dominguez 

Hills (Calif.) 

California State University-East Bay 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Fresno (Calif.)

California State University-Fullerton 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Long Beach 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Los Angeles 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Northridge 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Sacramento 

(Calif.) 

California State University-San

Bernardino (Calif.) 

California State University-Stanislaus 

(Calif.) 

California University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Calvin College (Mich.) 

Cameron University (Okla.) 

Campbell University Inc (N.C.) 

Canisius College (N.Y.) 

Capital University (Ohio) 

Carleton College (Minn.) 

Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) 

Carroll College (Wis.) 

Carson-Newman College (Tenn.) 

Carthage College (Wis.) 

Case Western Reserve University (Ohio)

Castleton State College (Vt.) 

Catawba College (N.C.) 

Catholic University of America (D.C.) 

Cazenovia College (N.Y.) 

Cedar Crest College (Pa.) 

Centenary College (N.J.) 

Centenary College of Louisiana (La.) 

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Group 

Central College (Iowa) 

Central Connecticut State University (Conn.)

Central Michigan University (Mich.) 

Central Missouri State University (Mo.) 

Central Washington University (Wash.) 

Centre College (Ky.) 

Chadron State College (Neb.)

Chaminade University of Honolulu (Hawaii) 

Chapman University (Calif.) 

Charleston Southern University (S.C.) 

Chatham College (Pa.) 

Chestnut Hill College (Pa.) 

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Chicago State University (Ill.) 

Chowan College (N.C.) 

Christian Brothers University (Tenn.) 

Christopher Newport University (Va.) 

Citadel Military College of South Carolina 

(S.C.) 

Claremont McKenna College (Calif.) 

Clarion University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Clark Atlanta University (Ga.) 

Clark University (Mass.) 

Clarke College (Iowa) 

Clarkson University (N.Y.) 

Clayton College and State University (Ga.) 

Clemson University (S.C.) 

Cleveland State University (Ohio) 

Coastal Carolina University (S.C.) 

Coe College (Iowa) 

Coker College (S.C.) 

Colby College (Maine) 

Colby-Sawyer College (N.H.)

Colgate University (N.Y.) 

College Misericordia (Pa.) 

College of Charleston (S.C.) 

College of Mount Saint Joseph (Ohio) 

College of Mount Saint Vincent (N.Y.) 

College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Md.) 

College of Our Lady of the Elms (Mass.) 

College of Saint Benedict (Minn.) 

College of Saint Elizabeth (N.J.) 

College of St Catherine (Minn.) 

College of the Holy Cross (Mass.) 

College of William and Mary (Va.) 

College of Wooster (Ohio) 

Colorado Christian University (Colo.) 

Colorado College (Colo.) 

Colorado School of Mines (Colo.) 

Colorado State University (Colo.) 

Colorado State University-Pueblo (Colo.)

Columbia Union College (Md.) 

Columbia University in the City of New 

York (N.Y.) 

Columbus State University (Ga.) 

Concord University (W.Va.) 

Concordia College (N.Y.) 

Concordia College at Moorhead (Minn.) 

Concordia University (Ill.) 

Concordia University at Austin (Tex.) 

Concordia University-St Paul (Minn.) 

Concordia University-Wisconsin (Wis.) 

Connecticut College (Conn.) 

Converse College (S.C.) 

Coppin State University (Md.) 

Cornell College (Iowa) 

Cornell University-Endowed Colleges 

(N.Y.) 

Creighton University (Neb.) 

CUNY Bernard M Baruch College (N.Y.) 

CUNY Brooklyn College (N.Y.) 

CUNY City College (N.Y.) 

CUNY College of Staten Island (N.Y.) 

CUNY Hunter College (N.Y.) 

CUNY John Jay College Criminal Justice 

(N.Y.) 

CUNY Lehman College (N.Y.) 

CUNY Medgar Evers College (N.Y.) 

CUNY New York City College of 

Technology (N.Y.) 

CUNY Queens College (N.Y.) 

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CUNY York College (N.Y.) 

Curry College (Mass.) 

Dallas Baptist University (Tex.) 

Daniel Webster College (N.H.)

Dartmouth College (N.H.) 

Davidson College (N.C.) 

Davis and Elkins College (W.Va.) 

Defiance College (Ohio) 

Delaware State University (Del.) 

Delaware Valley College (Pa.)

Delta State University (Miss.) 

Denison University (Ohio) 

Depaul University (Ill.) 

Depauw University (Ind.) 

Desales University (Pa.) 

Dickinson College (Pa.) 

Dominican College of Blauvelt (N.Y.) 

Dominican University (Ill.) 

Dowling College (N.Y.) 

Drake University (Iowa) 

Drew University (N.J.) 

Drexel University (Pa.) 

Drury University (Mo.) 

Duke University (N.C.) 

Duquesne University (Pa.) 

D'Youville College (N.Y.) 

Earlham College (Ind.) 

East Carolina University (N.C.) 

East Central University (Okla.) 

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

East Tennessee State University (Tenn.) 

East Texas Baptist University (Tex.) 

Eastern Connecticut State University (Conn.)

Eastern Illinois University (Ill.) 

Eastern Kentucky University (Ky.) 

Eastern Mennonite University (Va.) 

Eastern Michigan University (Mich.) 

Eastern Nazarene College (Mass.) 

Eastern New Mexico University-Main 

Campus (N.M.)

Eastern Oregon University (Ore.) 

Eastern University (Pa.) 

Eastern Washington University (Wash.) 

Eckerd College (Fla.) 

Edgewood College (Wis.) 

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Elizabeth City State University (N.C.) 

Elizabethtown College (Pa.) 

Elmhurst College (Ill.) 

Elmira College (N.Y.) 

Elon University (N.C.) 

Emerson College (Mass.) 

Emmanuel College (Mass.) 

Emory and Henry College (Va.) 

Emory University (Ga.) 

Emporia State University (Kan.) 

Endicott College (Mass.) 

Erskine College and Seminary (S.C.) 

Eureka College (Ill.) 

Fairfield University (Conn.) 

Fairleigh Dickinson University-College at 

Florham (N.J.) 

Fairleigh Dickinson 

University-Metropolitan Campus (N.J.)

Fairmont State University (W.Va.) 

Farmingdale State University of New 

York (N.Y.) 

Fayetteville State University (N.C.) 

Felician College (N.J.) 

Ferris State University (Mich.)

Ferrum College (Va.) 

Fisk University (Tenn.) 

Fitchburg State College (Mass.) 

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical

University (Fla.) 

Florida Atlantic University-Boca Raton 

(Fla.) 

Florida Gulf Coast University (Fla.) 

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Florida Institute of Technology-Melbourne 

(Fla.) 

Florida International University (Fla.) 

Florida Southern College (Fla.) 

Florida State University (Fla.) 

Fontbonne University (Mo.) 

Fordham University (N.Y.) 

Fort Hays State University (Kan.) 

Fort Lewis College (Colo.) 

Fort Valley State University (Ga.) 

Framingham State College (Mass.) 

Francis Marion University (S.C.) 

Franklin and Marshall College (Pa.) 

Franklin College (Ind.) 

Franklin Pierce College (N.H.)

Frostburg State University (Md.) 

Furman University (S.C.) 

Gallaudet University (D.C.) 

Gannon University (Pa.) 

Gardner-Webb University (N.C.) 

George Fox University (Ore.) 

George Mason University (Va.) 

George Washington University (D.C.) 

Georgetown University (D.C.)

Georgia College and State University (Ga.) 

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

(Ga.) 

Georgia Southern University (Ga.) 

Georgia State University (Ga.) 

Georgian Court University (N.J.) 

Gettysburg College (Pa.) 

Glenville State College (W.Va.) 

Goldey-Beacom College (Del.) 

Gonzaga University (Wash.) 

Gordon College (Mass.) 

Goucher College (Md.) 

Grambling State University (La.) 

Grand Canyon University (Ariz.) 

Grand Valley State University (Mich.) 

Green Mountain College (Vt.) 

Greensboro College (N.C.) 

Greenville College (Ill.) 

Grinnell College (Iowa) 

Grove City College (Pa.) 

Guilford College (N.C.) 

Gustavus Adolphus College (Minn.) 

Gwynedd Mercy College (Pa.)

Hamilton College (N.Y.) 

Hamline University (Minn.) 

Hampden-Sydney College (Va.) 

Hampton University (Va.) 

Hanover College (Ind.) 

Harding University (Ark.) 

Hardin-Simmons University (Tex.) 

Hartwick College (N.Y.) 

Harvard University (Mass.) 

Harvey Mudd College (Calif.)

Haverford College (Pa.) 

Hawaii Pacific University (Hawaii) 

Heidelberg College (Ohio) 

Henderson State University (Ark.) 

Hendrix College (Ark.) 

High Point University (N.C.) 

Hilbert College (N.Y.) 

Hillsdale College (Mich.) 

Hiram College (Ohio) 

Hobart William Smith Colleges (N.Y.) 

Hofstra University (N.Y.) 

Hollins University (Va.) 

Holy Family University (Pa.) 

Hood College (Md.) 

Hope College (Mich.) 

Howard Payne University (Tex.) 

Howard University (D.C.) 

Humboldt State University (Calif.) 

Huntingdon College (Ala.) 

Husson College (Maine) 

Idaho State University (Idaho) 

Illinois College (Ill.) 

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Illinois State University (Ill.) 

Illinois Wesleyan University (Ill.) 

Immaculata University (Pa.) 

Indiana State University (Ind.) 

Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main 

Campus (Pa.) 

Indiana University-Bloomington (Ind.) 

Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort 

Wayne (Ind.) 

Indiana University-Purdue 

University-Indianapolis (Ind.) 

Iona College (N.Y.) 

Iowa State University (Iowa) 

Ithaca College (N.Y.) 

Jackson State University (Miss.) 

Jacksonville State University (Ala.) 

Jacksonville University (Fla.) 

James Madison University (Va.) 

Jarvis Christian College (Tex.) 

John Carroll University (Ohio)

Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 

Johnson & Wales University (R.I.) 

Johnson C Smith University (N.C.) 

Johnson State College (Vt.) 

Juniata College (Pa.) 

Kalamazoo College (Mich.) 

Kansas State University (Kan.) 

Kean University (N.J.) 

Keene State College (N.H.) 

Kennesaw State University (Ga.) 

Kent State University-Main Campus (Ohio) 

Kentucky State University (Ky.) 

Kentucky Wesleyan College (Ky.) 

Kenyon College (Ohio) 

Keuka College (N.Y.) 

Kings College (Pa.) 

Knox College (Ill.) 

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

La Roche College (Pa.) 

La Salle University (Pa.) 

Lafayette College (Pa.) 

Lagrange College (Ga.) 

Lake Erie College (Ohio) 

Lake Forest College (Ill.) 

Lake Superior State University (Mich.) 

Lakeland College (Wis.) 

Lamar University (Tex.) 

Lander University (S.C.) 

Lane College (Tenn.) 

Lasell College (Mass.) 

Lawrence University (Wis.) 

Le Moyne College (N.Y.) 

Le Moyne-Owen College (Tenn.) 

Lebanon Valley College (Pa.)

Lees-Mcrae College (N.C.) 

Lehigh University (Pa.) 

Lenoir-Rhyne College (N.C.)

Lesley University (Mass.) 

Letourneau University (Tex.) 

Lewis & Clark College (Ore.) 

Lewis University (Ill.) 

Liberty University (Va.) 

Limestone College (S.C.) 

Lincoln Memorial University (Tenn.) 

Lincoln University (Mo.) 

Lincoln University (Pa.) 

Linfield College (Ore.) 

Lipscomb University (Tenn.) 

Livingstone College (N.C.) 

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus 

(N.Y.) 

Long Island University-C W Post 

Campus (N.Y.)

Longwood University (Va.) 

Loras College (Iowa) 

Louisiana College (La.) 

Louisiana State Univ & Ag & Mech & 

Hebert Laws Ctr (La.) 

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Louisiana Tech University (La.) 

Loyola College in Maryland (Md.) 

Loyola Marymount University (Calif.) 

Loyola University Chicago (Ill.) 

Luther College (Iowa) 

Lycoming College (Pa.) 

Lynchburg College (Va.) 

Lynn University (Fla.) 

Macalester College (Minn.) 

MacMurray College (Ill.) 

Maine Maritime Academy (Maine) 

Manchester College (Ind.) 

Manhattan College (N.Y.) 

Manhattanville College (N.Y.) 

Mansfield University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Maranatha Baptist Bible College Inc (Wis.) 

Marian College of Fond Du Lac (Wis.) 

Marietta College (Ohio) 

Marist College (N.Y.) 

Marquette University (Wis.) 

Mars Hill College (N.C.) 

Marshall University (W.Va.) 

Martin Luther College (Minn.)

Mary Baldwin College (Va.) 

Marymount University (Va.) 

Maryville College (Tenn.) 

Maryville University of Saint Louis (Mo.) 

Marywood University (Pa.) 

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (Mass.)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

(Mass.) 

Massachusetts Maritime Academy (Mass.) 

McDaniel College (Md.) 

McMurry University (Tex.) 

McNeese State University (La.) 

Medaille College (N.Y.) 

Menlo College (Calif.) 

Mercer University (Ga.) 

Mercy College-Main Campus (N.Y.) 

Mercyhurst College (Pa.) 

Meredith College (N.C.) 

Merrimack College (Mass.) 

Mesa State College (Colo.) 

Messiah College (Pa.) 

Methodist College (N.C.) 

Metropolitan State College of Denver 

(Colo.) 

Miami University-Oxford (Ohio) 

Michigan State University (Mich.) 

Michigan Technological University 

(Mich.) 

Middle Tennessee State University 

(Tenn.) 

Middlebury College (Vt.) 

Midwestern State University (Tex.) 

Miles College (Ala.) 

Millersville University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Millikin University (Ill.) 

Mills College (Calif.) 

Millsaps College (Miss.) 

Milwaukee School of Engineering (Wis.) 

Minnesota State University-Mankato 

(Minn.) 

Minnesota State University-Moorhead 

(Minn.) 

Mississippi College (Miss.) 

Mississippi State University (Miss.) 

Mississippi University For Women 

(Miss.) 

Mississippi Valley State University 

(Miss.) 

Missouri Southern State University (Mo.) 

Missouri Western State College (Mo.) 

Molloy College (N.Y.) 

Monmouth College (Ill.) 

Monmouth University (N.J.) 

Montana State University-Billings (Mont.)

Montana State University-Bozeman 

(Mont.) 

Montclair State University (N.J.) 

Moravian College and Theological 

Seminary (Pa.)

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Morehead State University (Ky.) 

Morehouse College (Ga.) 

Morgan State University (Md.) 

Morningside College (Iowa) 

Morris Brown College (Ga.) 

Mount Holyoke College (Mass.) 

Mount Ida College (Mass.) 

Mount Olive College (N.C.) 

Mount Saint Mary College (N.Y.) 

Mount St Mary’s University (Md.) 

Mount Union College (Ohio) 

Muhlenberg College (Pa.) 

Murray State University (Ky.) 

Muskingum College (Ohio) 

Nazareth College of Rochester (N.Y.) 

Nebraska Wesleyan University (Neb.) 

Neumann College (Pa.) 

New England College (N.H.)

New Jersey City University (N.J.) 

New Jersey Institute of Technology (N.J.) 

New Mexico Highlands University (N.M.) 

New Mexico State University-Main Campus 

(N.M.) 

New York Institute of Technology-Old 

Westbury (N.Y.) 

New York University (N.Y.) 

Newberry College (S.C.) 

Newbury College-Brookline (Mass.) 

Niagara University (N.Y.) 

Nicholls State University (La.) 

Nichols College (Mass.) 

Norfolk State University (Va.) 

North Carolina A & T State University (N.C.) 

North Carolina Central University (N.C.) 

North Carolina State University at Raleigh 

(N.C.) 

North Carolina Wesleyan College (N.C.) 

North Central College (Ill.) 

North Dakota State University-Main Campus

(N.D.) 

North Greenville College (S.C.) 

North Park University (Ill.) 

Northeastern Illinois University (Ill.) 

Northeastern State University (Okla.) 

Northeastern University (Mass.) 

Northern Arizona University (Ariz.) 

Northern Illinois University (Ill.) 

Northern Kentucky University (Ky.) 

Northern Michigan University (Mich.) 

Northern State University (S.D.) 

Northland College (Wis.) 

Northwest Missouri State University 

(Mo.) 

Northwest Nazarene University (Idaho) 

Northwestern College (Wis.) 

Northwestern State University of 

Louisiana (La.)

Northwestern University (Ill.) 

Northwood University (Mich.) 

Norwich University (Vt.) 

Notre Dame De Namur University (Calif.)

Nova Southeastern University (Fla.) 

Nyack College (N.Y.) 

Oakland City University (Ind.) 

Oakland University (Mich.) 

Oberlin College (Ohio) 

Occidental College (Calif.) 

Oglethorpe University (Ga.) 

Ohio Northern University (Ohio) 

Ohio State University-Main Campus 

(Ohio) 

Ohio University-Main Campus (Ohio) 

Ohio Valley College (W.Va.) 

Ohio Wesleyan University (Ohio) 

Oklahoma Panhandle State University 

(Okla.) 

Oklahoma State University-Main 

Campus (Okla.) 

Old Dominion University (Va.) 

Olivet College (Mich.) 

Oral Roberts University (Okla.) 

Oregon State University (Ore.) 

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Otterbein College (Ohio) 

Ouachita Baptist University (Ark.) 

Pace University-New York (N.Y.) 

Pacific Lutheran University (Wash.) 

Pacific University (Ore.) 

Paine College (Ga.) 

Peace College (N.C.) 

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

(Pa.) 

Pennsylvania State University-Penn State 

Altoona (Pa.) 

Pennsylvania State Univ-Penn St 

Erie-Behrend Coll (Pa.) 

Pepperdine University (Calif.) 

Pfeiffer University (N.C.) 

Philadelphia Biblical University-Langhorne 

(Pa.) 

Philadelphia University (Pa.) 

Piedmont College (Ga.) 

Pine Manor College (Mass.) 

Pittsburg State University (Kan.) 

Pitzer College (Calif.) 

Plymouth State University (N.H.) 

Polytechnic University (N.Y.) 

Pomona College (Calif.) 

Portland State University (Ore.) 

Post University (Conn.) 

Prairie View A & M University (Tex.) 

Presbyterian College (S.C.) 

Princeton University (N.J.) 

Principia College (Ill.) 

Providence College (R.I.) 

Purdue University-Main Campus (Ind.) 

Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) 

Quincy University (Ill.) 

Quinnipiac University (Conn.)

Radford University (Va.) 

Ramapo College of New Jersey (N.J.) 

Randolph-Macon College (Va.) 

Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (Va.) 

Regis College (Mass.) 

Regis University (Colo.) 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (N.Y.) 

Rhode Island College (R.I.) 

Rhodes College (Tenn.) 

Rice University (Tex.) 

Rider University (N.J.) 

Ripon College (Wis.) 

Rivier College (N.H.) 

Roanoke College (Va.) 

Robert Morris University (Pa.) 

Rochester Institute of Technology (N.Y.) 

Rockford College (Ill.) 

Rockhurst University (Mo.) 

Roger Williams University (R.I.) 

Rollins College (Fla.) 

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 

(Ind.) 

Rosemont College (Pa.) 

Rowan University (N.J.) 

Rust College (Miss.) 

Rutgers University-Camden (N.J.) 

Rutgers University-New Brunswick (N.J.)

Rutgers University-Newark (N.J.) 

Sacred Heart University (Conn.) 

Saginaw Valley State University (Mich.) 

Saint Anselm College (N.H.)

Saint Augustines College (N.C.) 

Saint Bonaventure University (N.Y.) 

Saint Cloud State University (Minn.) 

Saint Edward’s University (Tex.) 

Saint Francis University (Pa.) 

Saint John Fisher College (N.Y.) 

Saint Johns University (Minn.)

Saint Joseph College (Conn.) 

Saint Josephs College (Ind.) 

Saint Josephs College (Maine)

Saint Josephs College-Suffolk Campus 

(N.Y.) 

Saint Josephs University (Pa.) 

Saint Leo University (Fla.) 

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Saint Louis University-Main Campus (Mo.) 

Saint Martins College (Wash.) 

Saint Mary’s College (Ind.) 

Saint Marys College of California (Calif.) 

Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota (Minn.)

Saint Michaels College (Vt.) 

Saint Norbert College (Wis.) 

Saint Olaf College (Minn.) 

Saint Pauls College (Va.) 

Saint Peters College (N.J.) 

Saint Thomas Aquinas College (N.Y.) 

Salem International University (W.Va.) 

Salem State College (Mass.) 

Salisbury University (Md.) 

Salve Regina University (R.I.) 

Sam Houston State University (Tex.) 

Samford University (Ala.) 

San Diego State University (Calif.) 

San Francisco State University (Calif.) 

San Jose State University (Calif.) 

Santa Clara University (Calif.) 

Savannah College of Art and Design (Ga.) 

Savannah State University (Ga.) 

Schreiner University (Tex.) 

Scripps College (Calif.) 

Seattle Pacific University (Wash.) 

Seattle University (Wash.) 

Seton Hall University (N.J.) 

Sewanee: The University of the South (Tenn.)

Shaw University (N.C.) 

Shenandoah University (Va.) 

Shepherd University (W.Va.) 

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Siena College (N.Y.) 

Simmons College (Mass.) 

Simpson College (Iowa) 

Skidmore College (N.Y.) 

Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Smith College (Mass.) 

Sonoma State University (Calif.) 

South Carolina State University (S.C.) 

South Dakota State University (S.D.) 

Southampton College of Long Island 

University (N.Y.) 

Southeast Missouri State University 

(Mo.) 

Southeastern Louisiana University (La.) 

Southeastern Oklahoma State University 

(Okla.) 

Southern Arkansas University Main 

Campus (Ark.)

Southern Connecticut State University 

(Conn.) 

Southern Illinois University Carbondale 

(Ill.) 

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 

(Ill.) 

Southern Methodist University (Tex.) 

Southern New Hampshire University 

(N.H.) 

Southern University and A & M College 

(La.) 

Southern Utah University (Utah) 

Southern Vermont College (Vt.) 

Southwest Baptist University (Mo.) 

Southwest Minnesota State University 

(Minn.) 

Southwest Missouri State University 

(Mo.) 

Southwestern Oklahoma State University 

(Okla.) 

Southwestern University (Tex.) 

Spelman College (Ga.) 

Springfield College (Mass.) 

St Andrews Presbyterian College (N.C.) 

St Francis College (N.Y.) 

St John’s University-New York (N.Y.) 

St Lawrence University (N.Y.) 

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St Mary’s College of Maryland (Md.) 

St Marys University (Tex.) 

Stanford University (Calif.) 

State University of West Georgia (Ga.) 

Stephen F Austin State University (Tex.) 

Stephens College (Mo.) 

Stetson University (Fla.) 

Stevens Institute of Technology (N.J.) 

Stillman College (Ala.) 

Stonehill College (Mass.) 

Suffolk University (Mass.) 

Sul Ross State University (Tex.) 

SUNY at Albany (N.Y.) 

SUNY at Binghamton (N.Y.) 

SUNY at Buffalo (N.Y.) 

SUNY at Stony Brook (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Brockport (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Buffalo (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Cortland (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Fredonia (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Geneseo (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at New Paltz (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Old Westbury (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Oneonta (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Oswego (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Plattsburgh (N.Y.) 

SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome

(N.Y.) 

SUNY Maritime College (N.Y.) 

SUNY-Potsdam (N.Y.) 

Susquehanna University (Pa.) 

Swarthmore College (Pa.) 

Sweet Briar College (Va.) 

Syracuse University (N.Y.) 

Tarleton State University (Tex.) 

Temple University (Pa.) 

Tennessee State University (Tenn.) 

Tennessee Technological University (Tenn.) 

Texas A & M University (Tex.) 

Texas A & M University-Commerce 

(Tex.) 

Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi 

(Tex.) 

Texas A & M University-Kingsville (Tex.) 

Texas Christian University (Tex.) 

Texas Lutheran University (Tex.) 

Texas Southern University (Tex.) 

Texas State University-San Marcos 

(Tex.) 

Texas Tech University (Tex.) 

Texas Woman’s University (Tex.) 

The College of New Jersey (N.J.) 

The College of New Rochelle (N.Y.) 

The College of Saint Rose (N.Y.) 

The College of Saint Scholastica (Minn.) 

The Richard Stockton College of New 

Jersey (N.J.) 

The Sage Colleges-Troy Campus (N.Y.) 

The University of Alabama (Ala.) 

The University of Findlay (Ohio) 

The University of Montana-Missoula 

(Mont.) 

The University of Tampa (Fla.) 

The University of Tennessee (Tenn.) 

The University of 

Tennessee-Chattanooga (Tenn.) 

The University of Tennessee-Martin 

(Tenn.) 

The University of Texas at Arlington 

(Tex.) 

The University of Texas at Austin (Tex.) 

The University of Texas at Dallas (Tex.) 

The University of Texas at El Paso (Tex.)

The University of Texas at San Antonio 

(Tex.) 

The University of Texas-Pan American 

(Tex.) 

The University of West Florida (Fla.) 

Thiel College (Pa.) 

Thomas College (Maine) 

Thomas More College (Ky.) 

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Tiffin University (Ohio) 

Towson University (Md.) 

Transylvania University (Ky.) 

Trinity College (Conn.) 

Trinity University (D.C.) 

Trinity University (Tex.) 

Troy State University-Main Campus (Ala.) 

Truman State University (Mo.) 

Tufts University (Mass.) 

Tulane University of Louisiana (La.) 

Tusculum College (Tenn.) 

Tuskegee University (Ala.) 

Union College (N.Y.) 

United States Air Force Academy (Colo.) 

United States Coast Guard Academy (Conn.) 

United States Merchant Marine Academy 

(N.Y.) 

United States Military Academy (N.Y.) 

United States Naval Academy (Md.) 

University of Akron Main Campus (Ohio) 

University of Alabama at Birmingham (Ala.) 

University of Alabama in Huntsville (Ala.) 

University of Alaska Anchorage (Alaska) 

University of Alaska Fairbanks (Alaska) 

University of Arizona (Ariz.) 

University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Ark.) 

University of Arkansas at Monticello (Ark.) 

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (Ark.) 

University of Arkansas Main Campus (Ark.) 

University of Bridgeport (Conn.) 

University of California-Berkeley (Calif.) 

University of California-Davis (Calif.) 

University of California-Irvine (Calif.) 

University of California-Los Angeles (Calif.) 

University of California-Riverside (Calif.) 

University of California-San Diego (Calif.) 

University of California-Santa Barbara (Calif.)

University of California-Santa Cruz (Calif.) 

University of Central Arkansas (Ark.) 

University of Central Florida (Fla.) 

University of Central Oklahoma (Okla.) 

University of Charleston (W.Va.) 

University of Chicago (Ill.) 

University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 

(Ohio) 

University of Colorado at Boulder (Colo.) 

University of Colorado at Colorado 

Springs (Colo.)

University of Connecticut (Conn.) 

University of Dallas (Tex.) 

University of Dayton (Ohio) 

University of Delaware (Del.) 

University of Denver (Colo.) 

University of Detroit Mercy (Mich.) 

University of Dubuque (Iowa)

University of Evansville (Ind.)

University of Florida (Fla.) 

University of Georgia (Ga.) 

University of Hartford (Conn.) 

University of Hawaii at Hilo (Hawaii) 

University of Hawaii at Manoa (Hawaii) 

University of Houston-University Park 

(Tex.) 

University of Idaho (Idaho) 

University of Illinois at Chicago (Ill.) 

University of Illinois at 

Urbana-Champaign (Ill.) 

University of Indianapolis (Ind.) 

University of Iowa (Iowa) 

University of Kansas Main Campus 

(Kan.) 

University of Kentucky (Ky.) 

University of La Verne (Calif.)

University of Louisiana at Lafayette (La.) 

University of Louisiana at Monroe (La.) 

University of Louisville (Ky.) 

University of Maine (Maine) 

University of Maine at Farmington 

(Maine) 

University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Tex.) 

University of Mary Washington (Va.) 

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University of Maryland-Baltimore County 

(Md.) 

University of Maryland-College Park (Md.) 

University of Maryland-Eastern Shore (Md.) 

University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Mass.) 

University of Massachusetts-Boston (Mass.)

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth 

(Mass.) 

University of Massachusetts-Lowell (Mass.) 

University of Memphis (Tenn.)

University of Miami (Fla.) 

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Mich.) 

University of Minnesota-Crookston (Minn.) 

University of Minnesota-Duluth (Minn.) 

University of Minnesota-Morris (Minn.) 

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minn.) 

University of Mississippi Main Campus (Miss.)

University of Missouri-Columbia (Mo.) 

University of Missouri-Kansas City (Mo.) 

University of Missouri-Rolla (Mo.) 

University of Missouri-St Louis (Mo.) 

University of Montevallo (Ala.) 

University of Nebraska at Kearney (Neb.) 

University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Neb.) 

University of Nebraska at Omaha (Neb.) 

University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Nev.) 

University of Nevada-Reno (Nev.) 

University of New England (Maine) 

University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 

(N.H.) 

University of New Haven (Conn.) 

University of New Mexico-Main Campus 

(N.M.) 

University of New Orleans (La.) 

University of North Alabama (Ala.) 

University of North Carolina at Asheville 

(N.C.) 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

(N.C.) 

University of North Carolina at Charlotte 

(N.C.) 

University of North Carolina at

Greensboro (N.C.) 

University of North Carolina at Pembroke 

(N.C.) 

University of North Carolina-Wilmington

(N.C.) 

University of North Dakota-Main Campus 

(N.D.) 

University of North Florida (Fla.) 

University of North Texas (Tex.) 

University of Northern Colorado (Colo.) 

University of Northern Iowa (Iowa) 

University of Notre Dame (Ind.) 

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus 

(Okla.) 

University of Oregon (Ore.) 

University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

University of Pittsburgh-Bradford (Pa.) 

University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg 

(Pa.) 

University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown (Pa.) 

University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 

(Pa.) 

University of Portland (Ore.) 

University of Puerto Rico-Bayamon 

(P.R.) 

University of Puerto Rico-Cayey 

University College (P.R.) 

University of Puerto Rico-Humacao 

(P.R.) 

University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez 

(P.R.) 

University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 

Campus (P.R.)

University of Puget Sound (Wash.) 

University of Redlands (Calif.)

University of Rhode Island (R.I.) 

University of Richmond (Va.) 

University of Rochester (N.Y.)

University of San Diego (Calif.) 

University of San Francisco (Calif.) 

University of Scranton (Pa.) 

University of South Alabama (Ala.) 

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University of South Carolina Upstate (S.C.) 

University of South Carolina-Aiken (S.C.) 

University of South Carolina-Columbia (S.C.)

University of South Dakota (S.D.) 

University of South Florida (Fla.) 

University of Southern California (Calif.) 

University of Southern Indiana (Ind.) 

University of Southern Maine (Maine) 

University of Southern Mississippi (Miss.) 

University of St Francis (Ill.) 

University of St Thomas (Minn.) 

University of the District of Columbia (D.C.) 

University of the Incarnate Word (Tex.) 

University of the Ozarks (Ark.) 

University of the Pacific (Calif.) 

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia 

(Pa.) 

University of Toledo (Ohio) 

University of Tulsa (Okla.) 

University of Utah (Utah) 

University of Vermont and State Agricultural

Coll (Vt.) 

University of Virginia-Main Campus (Va.) 

University of Washington-Seattle Campus 

(Wash.) 

University of West Alabama (Ala.) 

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Parkside (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Platteville (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-River Falls (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Stout (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Superior (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Wis.) 

University of Wyoming (Wyo.) 

Upper Iowa University (Iowa) 

Upsala College (N.J.) 

Ursinus College (Pa.) 

Utah State University (Utah) 

Utica College (N.Y.) 

Valdosta State University (Ga.) 

Valparaiso University (Ind.) 

Vanderbilt University (Tenn.) 

Vassar College (N.Y.) 

Villa Julie College (Md.) 

Villanova University (Pa.) 

Virginia Commonwealth University (Va.) 

Virginia Military Institute (Va.) 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 

Univ (Va.) 

Virginia State University (Va.) 

Virginia Union University (Va.) 

Virginia Wesleyan College (Va.) 

Wabash College (Ind.) 

Wagner College (N.Y.) 

Wake Forest University (N.C.)

Wartburg College (Iowa) 

Washburn University (Kan.) 

Washington & Jefferson College (Pa.) 

Washington and Lee University (Va.) 

Washington College (Md.) 

Washington State University (Wash.) 

Washington University in St Louis (Mo.) 

Wayne State College (Neb.) 

Wayne State University (Mich.) 

Waynesburg College (Pa.) 

Weber State University (Utah)

Webster University (Mo.) 

Wellesley College (Mass.) 

Wells College (N.Y.) 

Wentworth Institute of Technology 

(Mass.) 

Wesley College (Del.) 

Wesleyan College (Ga.) 

Wesleyan University (Conn.) 

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West Chester University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

West Liberty State College (W.Va.) 

West Texas A & M University (Tex.) 

West Virginia State University (W.Va.) 

West Virginia University (W.Va.) 

West Virginia University Institute of 

Technology (W.Va.) 

West Virginia Wesleyan College (W.Va.) 

Western Carolina University (N.C.) 

Western Connecticut State University (Conn.) 

Western Illinois University (Ill.)

Western Kentucky University (Ky.) 

Western Michigan University (Mich.) 

Western New England College (Mass.) 

Western New Mexico University (N.M.) 

Western Oregon University (Ore.) 

Western State College of Colorado (Colo.) 

Western Washington University (Wash.) 

Westfield State College (Mass.) 

Westminster College (Mo.) 

Westminster College (Pa.) 

Wheaton College (Ill.) 

Wheaton College (Mass.) 

Wheeling Jesuit University (W.Va.) 

Wheelock College (Mass.) 

Whitman College (Wash.) 

Whittier College (Calif.) 

Whitworth College (Wash.) 

Wichita State University (Kan.) 

Widener University-Main Campus (Pa.) 

Wiley College (Tex.) 

Wilkes University (Pa.) 

Willamette University (Ore.) 

William Paterson University of New 

Jersey (N.J.) 

William Penn University (Iowa) 

Williams College (Mass.) 

Wilmington College (Del.) 

Wilmington College (Ohio) 

Wilson College (Pa.) 

Wingate University (N.C.) 

Winona State University (Minn.) 

Winston-Salem State University (N.C.) 

Winthrop University (S.C.) 

Wisconsin Lutheran College (Wis.) 

Wittenberg University (Ohio) 

Wofford College (S.C.) 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Mass.) 

Worcester State College (Mass.) 

Wright State University-Main Campus 

(Ohio) 

Xavier University (Ohio) 

Yale University (Conn.) 

Yeshiva University (N.Y.) 

York College Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Youngstown State University (Ohio) 

Source: NCAA and Department of Education.

Notes: For some schools, “A & M” no longer signifies “Agricultural and Mechanical” but is simply 

part of the school name 

 School names are listed as they were reported to the Department of Education through 

the IPEDS system. Thus, some names may differ from how they are listed in the NCAA 

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The following 750 schools were included in the closed group of NCAA 

members that met the following three criteria: 

• They were members of the NCAA in each year from 1991-1992 to 

2004-2005. 

• They were not also members of the second-largest athletic association, 

the NAIA, in any year from 1991-1992 to 2004-2005. 

• They reported team and participant information consistently each year 

from 1991-1992 to 2004-2005. 

Table 4: Closed-Group Schools (state abbreviation)

Abilene Christian University (Tex.) 

Adelphi University (N.Y.) 

Adrian College (Mich.) 

Alabama A & M University (Ala.) 

Alabama State University (Ala.) 

Albany State University (Ga.) 

Albertus Magnus College (Conn.) 

Albion College (Mich.) 

Albright College (Pa.) 

Alcorn State University (Miss.) 

Alfred University (N.Y.) 

Allegheny College (Pa.) 

Alma College (Mich.) 

American International College (Mass.) 

American University (D.C.) 

Angelo State University (Tex.) 

Anna Maria College (Mass.) 

Appalachian State University (N.C.) 

Arizona State University at the Tempe 

Campus (Ariz.)

Arkansas State University-Main Campus 

(Ark.) 

Armstrong Atlantic State University (Ga.) 

Ashland University (Ohio) 

Assumption College (Mass.) 

Auburn University Main Campus (Ala.) 

Augsburg College (Minn.) 

Augusta State University (Ga.) 

Augustana College (Ill.) 

Augustana College (S.D.) 

Aurora University (Ill.) 

Austin Peay State University (Tenn.) 

Averett University (Va.) 

Babson College (Mass.) 

Baldwin-Wallace College (Ohio) 

Ball State University (Ind.) 

Barnard College (N.Y.) 

Barry University (Fla.) 

Bates College (Maine) 

Baylor University (Tex.) 

Bellarmine University (Ky.) 

Beloit College (Wis.) 

Bemidji State University (Minn.) 

Benedictine University (Ill.) 

Bentley College (Mass.) 

Bethany College (W.Va.) 

Bethel University (Minn.) 

Bethune Cookman College (Fla.) 

Blackburn College (Ill.) 

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Bluffton University (Ohio) 

Boise State University (Idaho) 

Boston College (Mass.) 

Boston University (Mass.) 

Bowdoin College (Maine) 

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Bowie State University (Md.) 

Bowling Green State University-Main 

Campus (Ohio)

Bradley University (Ill.) 

Brandeis University (Mass.) 

Bridgewater College (Va.) 

Bridgewater State College (Mass.) 

Brigham Young University (Utah) 

Brown University (R.I.) 

Bryant University (R.I.) 

Bryn Mawr College (Pa.) 

Bucknell University (Pa.) 

Buena Vista University (Iowa)

Cabrini College (Pa.) 

California Institute of Technology (Calif.) 

California Lutheran University (Calif.) 

California Polytechnic State University-San

Luis Obispo (Calif.) 

California State Polytechnic 

University-Pomona (Calif.) 

California State University-Bakersfield 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Chico (Calif.) 

California State University-Dominguez Hills 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Fresno (Calif.) 

California State University-Fullerton (Calif.) 

California State University-Long Beach 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Los Angeles 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Northridge 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Sacramento 

(Calif.) 

California State University-San Bernardino 

(Calif.) 

California State University-Stanislaus 

(Calif.) 

California University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Calvin College (Mich.) 

Cameron University (Okla.) 

Campbell University Inc (N.C.) 

Canisius College (N.Y.) 

Capital University (Ohio) 

Carleton College (Minn.) 

Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) 

Carroll College (Wis.) 

Carthage College (Wis.) 

Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) 

Catholic University of America (D.C.) 

Centenary College of Louisiana (La.) 

Central College (Iowa) 

Central Connecticut State University 

(Conn.) 

Central Michigan University (Mich.) 

Central Missouri State University (Mo.) 

Centre College (Ky.) 

Chaminade University of Honolulu (Hawaii) 

Chapman University (Calif.) 

Charleston Southern University (S.C.) 

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Christopher Newport University (Va.) 

Citadel Military College of South Carolina 

(S.C.) 

Claremont Mckenna College (Calif.) 

Clarion University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Clark Atlanta University (Ga.) 

Clark University (Mass.) 

Clarkson University (N.Y.) 

Clemson University (S.C.) 

Cleveland State University (Ohio) 

Coastal Carolina University (S.C.) 

Coe College (Iowa) 

Colby College (Maine) 

Colby-Sawyer College (N.H.)

Colgate University (N.Y.) 

College of Charleston (S.C.) 

College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Md.) 

College of Our Lady of the Elms (Mass.) 

College of Saint Benedict (Minn.) 

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College of Saint Elizabeth (N.J.) 

College of St Catherine (Minn.) 

College of the Holy Cross (Mass.) 

College of William and Mary (Va.) 

College of Wooster (Ohio) 

Colorado Christian University (Colo.) 

Colorado College (Colo.) 

Colorado State University (Colo.) 

Colorado State University-Pueblo (Colo.) 

Columbus State University (Ga.) 

Concordia College (N.Y.) 

Concordia College at Moorhead (Minn.) 

Concordia University (Ill.) 

Connecticut College (Conn.) 

Coppin State University (Md.) 

Cornell College (Iowa) 

Cornell University-Endowed Colleges 

(N.Y.) 

Creighton University (Neb.) 

CUNY City College (N.Y.) 

CUNY College of Staten Island (N.Y.) 

CUNY Hunter College (N.Y.) 

CUNY John Jay College Criminal Justice 

(N.Y.) 

CUNY Lehman College (N.Y.) 

CUNY Medgar Evers College (N.Y.) 

CUNY Queens College (N.Y.) 

CUNY York College (N.Y.) 

Curry College (Mass.) 

Daniel Webster College (N.H.)

Dartmouth College (N.H.) 

Davidson College (N.C.) 

Defiance College (Ohio) 

Delaware State University (Del.) 

Delaware Valley College (Pa.)

Delta State University (Miss.) 

Denison University (Ohio) 

Depaul University (Ill.) 

Depauw University (Ind.) 

Desales University (Pa.) 

Dickinson College (Pa.) 

Dowling College (N.Y.) 

Drake University (Iowa) 

Drew University (N.J.) 

Drexel University (Pa.) 

Duke University (N.C.) 

Duquesne University (Pa.) 

Earlham College (Ind.) 

East Carolina University (N.C.) 

East Stroudsburg University of 

Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

East Tennessee State University (Tenn.) 

Eastern Connecticut State University 

(Conn.) 

Eastern Illinois University (Ill.) 

Eastern Kentucky University (Ky.) 

Eastern Mennonite University (Va.) 

Eastern Michigan University (Mich.) 

Eastern Nazarene College (Mass.) 

Eastern New Mexico University-Main 

Campus (N.M.)

Eastern Washington University (Wash.) 

Eckerd College (Fla.) 

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Elizabeth City State University (N.C.) 

Elizabethtown College (Pa.) 

Elmhurst College (Ill.) 

Elmira College (N.Y.) 

Emerson College (Mass.) 

Emmanuel College (Mass.) 

Emory and Henry College (Va.) 

Emory University (Ga.) 

Fairfield University (Conn.) 

Fairleigh Dickinson University-College at 

Florham (N.J.) 

Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan 

Campus (N.J.)

Fayetteville State University (N.C.) 

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Ferris State University (Mich.)

Ferrum College (Va.) 

Fisk University (Tenn.) 

Fitchburg State College (Mass.) 

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical

University (Fla.) 

Florida Atlantic University-Boca Raton 

(Fla.) 

Florida Institute of Technology-Melbourne 

(Fla.) 

Florida International University (Fla.) 

Florida Southern College (Fla.) 

Florida State University (Fla.) 

Fontbonne University (Mo.) 

Fordham University (N.Y.) 

Fort Valley State University (Ga.) 

Framingham State College (Mass.) 

Franklin and Marshall College (Pa.) 

Franklin Pierce College (N.H.)

Frostburg State University (Md.) 

Furman University (S.C.) 

Gallaudet University (D.C.) 

Gannon University (Pa.) 

George Mason University (Va.) 

George Washington University (D.C.) 

Georgetown University (D.C.)

Georgia College and State University (Ga.) 

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main 

Campus (Ga.) 

Georgia Southern University (Ga.) 

Georgia State University (Ga.) 

Gettysburg College (Pa.) 

Gonzaga University (Wash.) 

Goucher College (Md.) 

Grambling State University (La.) 

Grand Valley State University (Mich.) 

Greensboro College (N.C.) 

Grinnell College (Iowa) 

Grove City College (Pa.) 

Guilford College (N.C.) 

Gustavus Adolphus College (Minn.) 

Hamilton College (N.Y.) 

Hamline University (Minn.) 

Hampden-Sydney College (Va.) 

Hampton University (Va.) 

Hartwick College (N.Y.) 

Harvard University (Mass.) 

Haverford College (Pa.) 

Heidelberg College (Ohio) 

Hiram College (Ohio) 

Hobart William Smith Colleges (N.Y.) 

Hofstra University (N.Y.) 

Hollins University (Va.) 

Hood College (Md.) 

Hope College (Mich.) 

Howard University (D.C.) 

Humboldt State University (Calif.) 

Idaho State University (Idaho) 

Illinois College (Ill.) 

Illinois State University (Ill.) 

Illinois Wesleyan University (Ill.) 

Immaculata University (Pa.) 

Indiana State University (Ind.) 

Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main 

Campus (Pa.) 

Indiana University-Bloomington (Ind.) 

Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort 

Wayne (Ind.) 

Iona College (N.Y.) 

Iowa State University (Iowa) 

Ithaca College (N.Y.) 

Jackson State University (Miss.) 

Jacksonville State University (Ala.) 

Jacksonville University (Fla.) 

James Madison University (Va.) 

John Carroll University (Ohio)

Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 

Johnson C Smith University (N.C.) 

Juniata College (Pa.) 

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Kalamazoo College (Mich.) 

Kansas State University (Kan.) 

Kean University (N.J.) 

Keene State College (N.H.) 

Kent State University-Main Campus (Ohio) 

Kentucky State University (Ky.) 

Kenyon College (Ohio) 

Keuka College (N.Y.) 

Kings College (Pa.) 

Knox College (Ill.) 

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

La Salle University (Pa.) 

Lafayette College (Pa.) 

Lake Forest College (Ill.) 

Lake Superior State University (Mich.) 

Lamar University (Tex.) 

Lander University (S.C.) 

Lawrence University (Wis.) 

Le Moyne College (N.Y.) 

Le Moyne-Owen College (Tenn.) 

Lebanon Valley College (Pa.)

Lewis University (Ill.) 

Liberty University (Va.) 

Lincoln Memorial University (Tenn.) 

Lincoln University (Mo.) 

Lincoln University (Pa.) 

Livingstone College (N.C.) 

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus 

(N.Y.) 

Long Island University-C W Post Campus 

(N.Y.) 

Loras College (Iowa) 

Louisiana State Univ & Ag & Mech & 

Hebert Laws Ctr (La.) 

Louisiana Tech University (La.) 

Loyola College in Maryland (Md.) 

Loyola Marymount University (Calif.) 

Loyola University Chicago (Ill.) 

Luther College (Iowa) 

Lycoming College (Pa.) 

Lynchburg College (Va.) 

Macalester College (Minn.) 

MacMurray College (Ill.) 

Manhattan College (N.Y.) 

Manhattanville College (N.Y.) 

Mansfield University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Marietta College (Ohio) 

Marist College (N.Y.) 

Marquette University (Wis.) 

Marshall University (W.Va.) 

Mary Baldwin College (Va.) 

Marymount University (Va.) 

Maryville College (Tenn.) 

Maryville University of Saint Louis (Mo.) 

Marywood University (Pa.) 

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 

(Mass.) 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

(Mass.) 

Massachusetts Maritime Academy (Mass.) 

McDaniel College (Md.) 

McNeese State University (La.) 

Mercer University (Ga.) 

Mercy College-Main Campus (N.Y.) 

Mercyhurst College (Pa.) 

Merrimack College (Mass.) 

Messiah College (Pa.) 

Methodist College (N.C.) 

Metropolitan State College of Denver 

(Colo.) 

Miami University-Oxford (Ohio) 

Michigan State University (Mich.) 

Michigan Technological University (Mich.) 

Middle Tennessee State University (Tenn.) 

Middlebury College (Vt.) 

Miles College (Ala.) 

Millersville University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

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Millikin University (Ill.) 

Millsaps College (Miss.) 

Minnesota State University-Mankato 

(Minn.) 

Mississippi College (Miss.) 

Mississippi State University (Miss.) 

Mississippi Valley State University (Miss.) 

Missouri Southern State University (Mo.) 

Molloy College (N.Y.) 

Monmouth College (Ill.) 

Monmouth University (N.J.) 

Montana State University-Billings (Mont.) 

Montana State University-Bozeman (Mont.)

Montclair State University (N.J.) 

Morehead State University (Ky.) 

Morehouse College (Ga.) 

Morgan State University (Md.) 

Mount Holyoke College (Mass.) 

Mount Saint Mary College (N.Y.) 

Mount St Mary’s University (Md.) 

Mount Union College (Ohio) 

Muhlenberg College (Pa.) 

Murray State University (Ky.) 

Muskingum College (Ohio) 

Nazareth College of Rochester (N.Y.) 

New England College (N.H.)

New Jersey City University (N.J.) 

New Jersey Institute of Technology (N.J.) 

New Mexico State University-Main Campus 

(N.M.) 

New York University (N.Y.) 

Niagara University (N.Y.) 

Nicholls State University (La.) 

Nichols College (Mass.) 

Norfolk State University (Va.) 

North Carolina A & T State University 

(N.C.) 

North Carolina Central University (N.C.) 

North Carolina State University at Raleigh 

(N.C.) 

North Carolina Wesleyan College (N.C.) 

North Central College (Ill.) 

North Dakota State University-Main 

Campus (N.D.)

North Park University (Ill.) 

Northeastern University (Mass.) 

Northern Arizona University (Ariz.) 

Northern Illinois University (Ill.) 

Northern Kentucky University (Ky.) 

Northern Michigan University (Mich.) 

Northwestern State University of Louisiana 

(La.) 

Northwestern University (Ill.) 

Norwich University (Vt.) 

Oberlin College (Ohio) 

Occidental College (Calif.) 

Oglethorpe University (Ga.) 

Ohio Northern University (Ohio) 

Ohio State University-Main Campus (Ohio) 

Ohio University-Main Campus (Ohio) 

Ohio Wesleyan University (Ohio) 

Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 

(Okla.) 

Old Dominion University (Va.) 

Olivet College (Mich.) 

Oregon State University (Ore.) 

Otterbein College (Ohio) 

Pace University-New York (N.Y.) 

Paine College (Ga.) 

Pennsylvania State University-Main 

Campus (Pa.) 

Pennsylvania State Univ-Penn St 

Erie-Behrend Coll (Pa.) 

Pepperdine University (Calif.) 

Philadelphia University (Pa.) 

Pine Manor College (Mass.) 

Pittsburg State University (Kan.) 

Pitzer College (Calif.) 

Plymouth State University (N.H.) 

Polytechnic University (N.Y.) 

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Portland State University (Ore.) 

Princeton University (N.J.) 

Principia College (Ill.) 

Providence College (R.I.) 

Purdue University-Main Campus (Ind.) 

Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) 

Quinnipiac University (Conn.)

Radford University (Va.) 

Ramapo College of New Jersey (N.J.) 

Randolph-Macon College (Va.) 

Regis College (Mass.) 

Regis University (Colo.) 

Rhode Island College (R.I.) 

Rhodes College (Tenn.) 

Rice University (Tex.) 

Rider University (N.J.) 

Ripon College (Wis.) 

Roanoke College (Va.) 

Robert Morris University (Pa.) 

Rochester Institute of Technology (N.Y.) 

Rockford College (Ill.) 

Rollins College (Fla.) 

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Ind.) 

Rosemont College (Pa.) 

Rowan University (N.J.) 

Rust College (Miss.) 

Rutgers University-Camden (N.J.) 

Rutgers University-New Brunswick (N.J.) 

Rutgers University-Newark (N.J.) 

Saginaw Valley State University (Mich.) 

Saint Anselm College (N.H.)

Saint Augustines College (N.C.) 

Saint Bonaventure University (N.Y.) 

Saint Cloud State University (Minn.) 

Saint Francis University (Pa.) 

Saint John Fisher College (N.Y.) 

Saint Johns University (Minn.)

Saint Josephs College (Ind.) 

Saint Josephs University (Pa.) 

Saint Leo University (Fla.) 

Saint Louis University-Main Campus (Mo.) 

Saint Mary’s College (Ind.) 

Saint Marys College of California (Calif.) 

Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota 

(Minn.) 

Saint Michaels College (Vt.) 

Saint Norbert College (Wis.) 

Saint Pauls College (Va.) 

Saint Peters College (N.J.) 

Salem State College (Mass.) 

Salisbury University (Md.) 

Salve Regina University (R.I.) 

Sam Houston State University (Tex.) 

Samford University (Ala.) 

San Diego State University (Calif.) 

San Francisco State University (Calif.) 

San Jose State University (Calif.) 

Santa Clara University (Calif.) 

Savannah State University (Ga.) 

Seattle Pacific University (Wash.) 

Seton Hall University (N.J.) 

Sewanee: The University of the South 

(Tenn.) 

Shaw University (N.C.) 

Shenandoah University (Va.) 

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Siena College (N.Y.) 

Simmons College (Mass.) 

Simpson College (Iowa) 

Skidmore College (N.Y.) 

Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania 

(Pa.) 

Smith College (Mass.) 

Sonoma State University (Calif.) 

South Carolina State University (S.C.) 

South Dakota State University (S.D.) 

Southeast Missouri State University (Mo.) 

Southeastern Louisiana University (La.) 

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Southern Connecticut State University 

(Conn.) 

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Ill.)

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 

(Ill.) 

Southern Methodist University (Tex.) 

Southern New Hampshire University (N.H.) 

Southern University and A & M College 

(La.) 

Southern Utah University (Utah) 

Southwest Baptist University (Mo.) 

Southwest Missouri State University (Mo.) 

Southwest Missouri State University (Mo.) 

Springfield College (Mass.) 

St Francis College (N.Y.) 

St John’s University-New York (N.Y.) 

St Lawrence University (N.Y.) 

St Mary’s College of Maryland (Md.) 

State University of West Georgia (Ga.) 

Stephen F Austin State University (Tex.) 

Stetson University (Fla.) 

Stevens Institute of Technology (N.J.) 

Stonehill College (Mass.) 

Suffolk University (Mass.) 

SUNY at Albany (N.Y.) 

SUNY at Binghamton (N.Y.) 

SUNY at Buffalo (N.Y.) 

SUNY at Stony Brook (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Brockport (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Buffalo (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Cortland (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Fredonia (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Geneseo (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at New Paltz (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Old Westbury (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Oneonta (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Oswego (N.Y.) 

SUNY College at Plattsburgh (N.Y.) 

SUNY Institute of Technology at 

Utica-Rome (N.Y.) 

SUNY Maritime College (N.Y.) 

SUNY-Potsdam (N.Y.) 

Susquehanna University (Pa.) 

Swarthmore College (Pa.) 

Sweet Briar College (Va.) 

Syracuse University (N.Y.) 

Temple University (Pa.) 

Tennessee State University (Tenn.) 

Tennessee Technological University 

(Tenn.) 

Texas A & M University (Tex.) 

Texas A & M University-Commerce (Tex.) 

Texas A & M University-Kingsville (Tex.) 

Texas Christian University (Tex.) 

Texas State University-San Marcos (Tex.) 

Texas Tech University (Tex.) 

Texas Woman’s University (Tex.) 

The College of New Jersey (N.J.) 

The College of New Rochelle (N.Y.) 

The College of Saint Rose (N.Y.) 

The Richard Stockton College of New 

Jersey (N.J.) 

The University of Alabama (Ala.) 

The University of Montana-Missoula 

(Mont.) 

The University of Tampa (Fla.) 

The University of Tennessee (Tenn.) 

The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga 

(Tenn.) 

The University of Tennessee-Martin 

(Tenn.) 

The University of Texas at Arlington (Tex.) 

The University of Texas at Austin (Tex.) 

The University of Texas at El Paso (Tex.) 

The University of Texas at San Antonio 

(Tex.) 

The University of Texas-Pan American 

(Tex.) 

Thiel College (Pa.) 

Thomas More College (Ky.) 

Towson University (Md.) 

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Trinity College (Conn.) 

Trinity University (Tex.) 

Troy State University-Main Campus (Ala.) 

Truman State University (Mo.) 

Tufts University (Mass.) 

Tuskegee University (Ala.) 

Union College (N.Y.) 

United States Air Force Academy (Colo.) 

United States Coast Guard Academy 

(Conn.) 

United States Military Academy (N.Y.) 

United States Naval Academy (Md.) 

University of Akron Main Campus (Ohio) 

University of Alabama at Birmingham (Ala.) 

University of Alabama in Huntsville (Ala.) 

University of Alaska Anchorage (Alaska) 

University of Alaska Fairbanks (Alaska) 

University of Arizona (Ariz.) 

University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Ark.) 

University of Arkansas Main Campus (Ark.) 

University of Bridgeport (Conn.) 

University of California-Davis (Calif.) 

University of California-Irvine (Calif.) 

University of California-Riverside (Calif.) 

University of California-San Diego (Calif.) 

University of California-Santa Barbara 

(Calif.) 

University of Central Florida (Fla.) 

University of Central Oklahoma (Okla.) 

University of Chicago (Ill.) 

University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 

(Ohio) 

University of Colorado at Boulder (Colo.) 

University of Dayton (Ohio) 

University of Delaware (Del.) 

University of Denver (Colo.) 

University of Detroit Mercy (Mich.) 

University of Dubuque (Iowa)

University of Evansville (Ind.)

University of Florida (Fla.)

University of Georgia (Ga.) 

University of Hartford (Conn.) 

University of Hawaii at Manoa (Hawaii) 

University of Idaho (Idaho) 

University of Illinois at Chicago (Ill.) 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

(Ill.) 

University of Indianapolis (Ind.) 

University of Iowa (Iowa) 

University of Kansas Main Campus (Kan.) 

University of Kentucky (Ky.) 

University of La Verne (Calif.)

University of Louisiana at Lafayette (La.) 

University of Louisiana at Monroe (La.) 

University of Louisville (Ky.) 

University of Maine (Maine) 

University of Mary Washington (Va.) 

University of Maryland-Baltimore County 

(Md.) 

University of Maryland-College Park (Md.) 

University of Maryland-Eastern Shore (Md.)

University of Massachusetts-Amherst 

(Mass.) 

University of Massachusetts-Boston 

(Mass.) 

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth 

(Mass.) 

University of Massachusetts-Lowell (Mass.)

University of Memphis (Tenn.)

University of Miami (Fla.) 

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Mich.) 

University of Minneasota-Twin Cities 

(Minn.) 

University of Mississippi Main Campus 

(Miss.) 

University of Missouri-Columbia (Mo.) 

University of Missouri-Kansas City (Mo.) 

University of Missouri-Rolla (Mo.) 

University of Missouri-St Louis (Mo.) 

University of Nebraska at Kearney (Neb.) 

University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Neb.) 

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Group 

University of Nebraska at Omaha (Neb.) 

University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Nev.) 

University of Nevada-Reno (Nev.) 

University of New Hampshire-Main 

Campus (N.H.)

University of New Haven (Conn.) 

University of New Mexico-Main Campus 

(N.M.) 

University of New Orleans (La.) 

University of North Alabama (Ala.) 

University of North Carolina at Asheville 

(N.C.) 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

(N.C.) 

University of North Carolina at Charlotte 

(N.C.) 

University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

(N.C.) 

University of North Carolina at Pembroke 

(N.C.) 

University of North Carolina-Wilmington

(N.C.) 

University of North Dakota-Main Campus 

(N.D.) 

University of North Texas (Tex.) 

University of Northern Colorado (Colo.) 

University of Northern Iowa (Iowa) 

University of Notre Dame (Ind.) 

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus 

(Okla.) 

University of Oregon (Ore.) 

University of Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus (Pa.)

University of Portland (Ore.) 

University of Redlands (Calif.)

University of Rhode Island (R.I.) 

University of Richmond (Va.) 

University of Rochester (N.Y.)

University of San Diego (Calif.) 

University of San Francisco (Calif.) 

University of Scranton (Pa.) 

University of South Alabama (Ala.) 

University of South Carolina Upstate (S.C.) 

University of South Carolina-Aiken (S.C.) 

University of South Carolina-Columbia 

(S.C.) 

University of South Dakota (S.D.) 

University of South Florida (Fla.) 

University of Southern California (Calif.) 

University of Southern Indiana (Ind.) 

University of Southern Maine (Maine) 

University of Southern Mississippi (Miss.) 

University of St Thomas (Minn.) 

University of the District of Columbia (D.C.) 

University of the Pacific (Calif.) 

University of Toledo (Ohio) 

University of Tulsa (Okla.) 

University of Utah (Utah) 

University of Vermont and State 

Agricultural Coll (Vt.) 

University of Virginia-Main Campus (Va.) 

University of Washington-Seattle Campus 

(Wash.) 

University of West Alabama (Ala.) 

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Stout (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Superior (Wis.) 

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Wis.) 

University of Wyoming (Wyo.)

Upper Iowa University (Iowa) 

Ursinus College (Pa.) 

Utah State University (Utah) 

Utica College (N.Y.) 

Valdosta State University (Ga.) 

Valparaiso University (Ind.) 

Vanderbilt University (Tenn.) 

Vassar College (N.Y.) 

Villanova University (Pa.) 

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Group 

Virginia Commonwealth University (Va.) 

Virginia Military Institute (Va.) 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ

(Va.) 

Virginia State University (Va.) 

Virginia Union University (Va.) 

Virginia Wesleyan College (Va.) 

Wabash College (Ind.) 

Wagner College (N.Y.) 

Wake Forest University (N.C.)

Wartburg College (Iowa) 

Washburn University (Kan.) 

Washington & Jefferson College (Pa.) 

Washington and Lee University (Va.) 

Washington College (Md.) 

Washington State University (Wash.) 

Washington University in St Louis (Mo.) 

Wayne State College (Neb.) 

Wayne State University (Mich.) 

Waynesburg College (Pa.) 

Weber State University (Utah)

Webster University (Mo.) 

Wellesley College (Mass.) 

Wells College (N.Y.) 

Wentworth Institute of Technology (Mass.) 

Wesley College (Del.) 

Wesleyan University (Conn.) 

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

(Pa.) 

West Texas A & M University (Tex.) 

West Virginia University (W.Va.) 

Western Carolina University (N.C.) 

Western Connecticut State University 

(Conn.) 

Western Illinois University (Ill.)

Western Kentucky University (Ky.) 

Western Michigan University (Mich.) 

Western New England College (Mass.) 

Westfield State College (Mass.) 

Wheaton College (Ill.) 

Wheaton College (Mass.) 

Whittier College (Calif.) 

Wichita State University (Kan.) 

Widener University-Main Campus (Pa.) 

Wilkes University (Pa.) 

William Paterson University of New Jersey 

(N.J.) 

Williams College (Mass.) 

Wilmington College (Del.) 

Winston-Salem State University (N.C.) 

Winthrop University (S.C.) 

Wittenberg University (Ohio) 

Wofford College (S.C.) 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Mass.) 

Worcester State College (Mass.) 

Wright State University-Main Campus 

(Ohio) 

Xavier University (Ohio) 

Yale University (Conn.) 

Yeshiva University (N.Y.) 

York College Pennsylvania (Pa.) 

Youngstown State University (Ohio) 

Sources: NCAA and Department of Education. 

Notes: For some schools, “A & M” no longer signifies “Agricultural and Mechanical” but is 

simply part of the school name. 

School names are listed as they were reported to the Department of Education 

through the IPEDS system. Thus, some names may differ from how they are listed in 

the NCAA membership directories. 

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GAO Contact and Staff 

cknowledgments 

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Appendix VI: GAO Contact and Staff 

Acknowledgments 

George A. Scott, Director, (202) 512–7215, ScottG@gao.gov. 

Melissa Emrey-Arras, Assistant Director, and Jeffrey W. Weinstein, 

Analyst-in-Charge, managed this assignment. Other staff members who 

made key contributions throughout the assignment include Cornelia 

Ashby, Jeff Appel, Claudine Pauselli, Ann-Marie Udale, Rachael Valliere, 

and Carla Craddock. Luann Moy assisted with methodology and data 

reliability testing. Sheila McCoy provided legal assistance. Lisa Mirel, Alice 

Feldesman, Karen Burke, and Avy Ashery provided assistance with 

graphics and layout. 

GAO Contact 

Staff 

Acknowledgments 

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