Big Ten Conference

The **Big Ten Conference** is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Most of its 18 member institutions are in the Midwestern United States. The conference footprint expanded to the country's Pacific coast in 2024.

## Members

|Institution|Location|Founded|Joined Conference|Affiliation|Enrollment|Nickname|Varsity Teams|NCAA Championships (as of January 1, 2014) <small>(excludes football)</small>||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|Urbana and Champaign, Illinois|1867|1896|Public|42,728|Fighting Illini|21|18||
|Indiana University Bloomington|Bloomington, Indiana|1820|1899 (Athletics 1900)|Public|39,990|Hoosiers|24|24||
|University of Iowa|Iowa City, Iowa|1848|1899 (Athletics 1900)|Public|30,409|Hawkeyes|24|25||
|<span style="display:none">Maryland</span>University of Maryland, College Park|College Park, Maryland|1856|2014|Public|37,631|Terrapins|20|25||
|University of Michigan|Ann Arbor, Michigan|1817|1896 Inactive 1907-1916|Public|40,025|Wolverines|27|35||
|Michigan State University|East Lansing, Michigan|1855|1950 (Athletics 1953)|Public|45,520|Spartans|25|19||
|University of Minnesota|Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota|1851|1896|Public|51,194||Golden Gophers|23|17|
|University of Nebraska–Lincoln|Lincoln, Nebraska|1869|2011|Public|24,593|Cornhuskers|21|17||
|Northwestern University|Evanston, Illinois|1851|1896|Private/Non-sectarian|13,407|Wildcats|19|8||
|Ohio State University|Columbus, Ohio|1870|1912|Public|52,568|Buckeyes|35|25||
|Pennsylvania State University|University Park, Pennsylvania|1855|1990 (Athletics 1993)|Public|42,914*|Nittany Lions (Lady Lions for women's basketball only)|31|43||
|Purdue University|West Lafayette, Indiana|1869|1896|Public|39,333|Boilermakers|18|3||
|Rutgers University|New Brunswick and Piscataway, New Jersey|1766|2014|Public|41,565|Scarlet Knights|27|1||
|University of Wisconsin|Madison, Wisconsin|1848|1896|Public|41,466|Badgers|23|28||

## Newest members

The Big Ten added four members after the 2023–24 school year, all from the Pac-12 Conference.
|Institution|Location|Founded|Joining Conference|Affiliation|Enrollment|Nickname|Varsity Teams|NCAA Championships (as of 2022–23) <small>(excludes football)</small>|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|University of Oregon|Eugene, Oregon|1876|2024|Public|23,202|Ducks|20|34|
|University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)|Los Angeles, California|1919|2024|Public|45,900|Bruins|25|121|
|University of Southern California (USC)|Los Angeles, California|1880|2024|Private|49,500|Trojans|23|112|
|University of Washington|Seattle, Washington|1861|2024|Public|49,522|Huskies|22|9|

### Associate members

The Big Ten gained its first "associate member"—i.e., a school playing only a small number of sports (in this case, one) in the conference—in 2014. The same school brought a second sport into the Big Ten in 2016. A second school became an associate member in 2017.
|School|Location|Founded|Joined|Type (affiliation) !! Enrollment !! Nickname !! Big Ten sports !! Main Conference||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2|Johns Hopkins University|rowspan=2|Baltimore, Maryland|rowspan=2|1876|2014|rowspan=2|Private (nonsectarian)|rowspan=2|5,066|rowspan=2|Blue Jays||rowspan=2|Centennial Conference (Div. III)|
|2016||||||||||||||||
||Notre Dame, Indiana|1842|2017|Private (Catholic)|11,773|Fighting Irish||ACC||||||||