Guide
Division I, with or without football
This page lists every college whose athletics division in the file is NCAA Division I. Football is not required. A Division I school with no football team stays here and stays off the Division I football page. The table sorts by state.
That single difference is why this list is longer than the football roll. Basketball-first conferences and schools that left football still belong, as long as the division field says NCAA Division I. The map shows the campuses.
- Schools
- 358
- States
- 50
- Median admit rate
- 77%
- 354 report a rate
- Median earnings
- $60,329
- 10 years after entry
The division field
The match is athletics division equals NCAA Division I. It is not a hand list of power conferences. A small Division I program counts the same as a famous one. The page is membership, and the fact card reports how many campuses the file includes.
FBS and FCS football schools are inside this set, because their athletics division is Division I. The football page is the subset that also has a football division. Starting here and then opening the football page is the right order when you need both facts.
The other divisions
NCAA Division II and Division III have their own pages. NAIA and junior-college athletics are different bodies and stay off all three NCAA pages. A school with a blank athletics division stays off this page too. A blank is not Division I.
A club sports program, or a campus that dropped to another division, follows the field. Memory of an old conference does not keep a school here. The source year under the table is part of the claim.
Do not read it as a football list
If your question is football, this page will mislead you, because non-football schools are mixed in on purpose. Switch to the football page or to a conference page. If your question is Division I athletics in any sport, stay.
Scorecard columns still describe the college. A Division I athletic department does not tell you the admission rate or the net price. Use those columns, and the school profile, for the academic institution.
Scholarship rules are not in the file
Division I programs can award athletic scholarships under NCAA rules. This page does not list scholarship amounts. It cannot tell you whether a particular team funds a full roster. That detail is outside the Scorecard.
Conference realignment changes who plays whom. It does not, by itself, change the division field. A school can change conferences and remain Division I. This page cares about the division. Conference pages care about football conference names.
Where the schools are
These schools sit in 50 states. The largest groups are California (26), Texas (25), New York (21), North Carolina (19), and Pennsylvania (15). The rest of the roll is spread across the other states in the table.
The full roll has 358 schools. The table shows 100 at a time. The page links under the table move through the rest. Page 1 is the canonical address.
Who runs them
By reported control, 235 are public and 123 are private nonprofit. A blank control stays out of that split.
Predominant degree is the credential the campus awards most often. On this list it is a bachelor's degree at 355 schools, an associate degree at 2 schools, and a certificate at 1 school. A campus can still award other credentials.
How large they are
The largest undergraduate enrollments on this list are Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, with 73,371 undergraduates, Arizona State University Campus Immersion in Tempe, Arizona, with 64,674 undergraduates, Texas A&M University-College Station in College Station, Texas, with 59,615 undergraduates, University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, with 59,146 undergraduates, and Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, with 50,012 undergraduates. Enrollment is the undergraduate figure. It is not a ranking, and it leaves out graduate students.
Admission
354 of 358 schools report an admission rate. The median of those rates is 77%. Schools with no reported rate stay out of the median. A missing rate is not an open door, and it is not a closed one.
The lowest reported admission rates on this list are Stanford University in Stanford, California, at 4%, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at 4%, and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, at 4%. A lower rate is harder entry. It is not a score for the school.
The highest reported admission rates on this list are The University of Texas at El Paso in El Paso, Texas, at 100%, Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, at 99%, and University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at 99%.
What they charge
Among 235 public colleges that report an in-state sticker price, the median is $10,787. Among 123 private colleges that report a sticker price, the median is $53,710.
Sticker price is not net price. Grants, waivers, and a service commitment can move the bill by a wide margin. Open a school for the net-price figures.
Earnings and graduation
Among 358 schools that report earnings, the median of those school-level medians is $60,329. The clock starts at entry, not at graduation. The highest reported medians on this list are Stanford University in Stanford, California, at $124,080, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at $111,371, and Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, at $110,066.
Among 358 schools that report a graduation rate, the median rate is 66%. A blank rate is left out. It is not treated as zero.
Also on other lists
Some of these schools also meet the rule for another list on this site. The overlap is a second flag or a second classification. It is not a second ranking.
125 are also on R1 research universities. 90 are also on R2 research universities. 12 are also on liberal arts colleges. 23 are also on HBCU colleges. 55 are also on Hispanic-serving institutions.
How these figures work
Admission rate, enrollment, sticker price, earnings, and graduation rate all come from the College Scorecard. Earnings are the median 10 years after a student entered the school. Tuition for a public college is the in-state sticker price. Tuition for a private college is the published sticker price. None of these is net price after aid.
A blank field stays blank. This page does not turn a blank admission rate into an open door, a blank fee into a free application, or a blank earnings figure into zero. The table above is membership under the rule in this guide. Sort order is not a quality ranking.