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Women’s basketball · NCAA Division I

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo, California · Public institution · 21,230 students

Listed squad
30
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Recorded
figure available with a free account
Published cost
Recorded
2023-24, available with a free account
Selectivity
Recorded
available with a free account

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo reported 30 women’s basketball participants in the Equity in Athletics return it filed for 2025-26. That is the institution’s own count of the squad, not a roster page Athlavia has read, and it is the figure the United States Department of Education publishes.

It competes in NCAA Division I, and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 26 NCAA DI women's basketball programmes in California, out of 161 programmes there in total.

Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are permitted

NCAA Division I rules permit athletically-related student aid.

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo reported athletically-related student aid awarded to women in its most recent federal return. The amount is the total across every women’s sport at the institution — basketball, and also volleyball, soccer, track, swimming and the rest. It is not a basketball budget, and it is not what one player receives.

Athlavia holds the reported figure

Read alone it is routinely mistaken for a per-player offer. Inside Athlavia it sits next to the squad size, the division's own limits and the published cost, which is the only way it means anything.

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It is one of 58 institutions in California whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 161 that field women’s basketball at all.

What it costs and what it is like

A published cost is held for 2023-24: tuition, mandatory fees, room and board, insurance and a travel estimate, with the international tuition rate separately where the institution publishes one.

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Type
Public
Enrolment
21,230
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
San Luis Obispo
State or region
California
Country
United States
Campus setting
suburban
Climate
Not recorded
International share
1%

Degrees recorded here

Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.

  • Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering.
  • Agricultural Business and Management.
  • Agricultural Engineering.
  • Agricultural Mechanization.
  • Agricultural Public Services.
  • Agriculture, General.
  • Animal Sciences.
  • Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
  • Architectural Engineering.
  • Architectural Sciences and Technology.
  • Architecture.
  • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
  • Biology, General.
  • Biomedical/Medical Engineering.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Chemistry.
  • City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning.
  • Civil Engineering.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Computer Engineering.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Construction Engineering.
  • Construction Management.
  • Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • Economics.
  • Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
  • Engineering Science.
  • Engineering, General.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.
  • Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Food Science and Technology.
  • Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
  • Forestry.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • Graphic Communications.
  • History.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Industrial Engineering.
  • Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
  • Journalism.
  • Landscape Architecture.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Manufacturing Engineering.
  • Marine Sciences.
  • Materials Engineering.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mechanical Engineering.
  • Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.
  • Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Nutrition Sciences.
  • Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.
  • Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physics.
  • Plant Sciences.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Health.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Social Sciences, General.
  • Social Sciences, Other.
  • Sociology.
  • Soil Sciences.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • Statistics.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.

How it compares

Across the 356 NCAA DI women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo lists 30, 13 players above that average. Among the 26 NCAA DI programmes in California, it has the 3rd largest listed squad.

Squad size is a fact about the return, not a judgement about the programme. A large squad can mean depth or it can mean a long bench; a small one can mean minutes are available or that the roster is already settled. It is a question to ask a coach, not an answer.

Where these figures came from

FieldValueSourceRetrievedConfidence
Squad size302025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand72-922025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($13,910/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 82). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
costOfAttendanceheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.cost.roomboard.oncampus12 Aug 202692%
Tuitionheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard fields latest.cost.tuition.in_state and latest.cost.tuition.out_of_state12 Aug 202692%
Degrees77 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Agricultural Mechanization.collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only12 Aug 202690%
institutionProfileheld — free accountapi.data.govCollege Scorecard v1 /schools, fields latest.admissions.admission_rate.overall, school.locale, location.lat, location.lon, latest.student.demographics.race_ethnicity.non_resident_alien, school.school_url read verbatim12 Aug 202692%

Every stored fact carries the source it came from, the date it was read and how it was extracted. Figures shown on this page without a row above are recorded with the source on the record itself — the athletic aid figure, for instance, carries the Department of Education’s athletics site as its source. Check it at the source.