Carnegie Mellon University — women’s basketball scholarships

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. Carnegie Mellon University reported 15 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 III and in the University Athletic Association. It is one of 57 NCAA DIII women's basketball programmes in Pennsylvania, out of 113 programmes there in total.

The athletics department’s own site is where the current roster and coaching staff are published.

Athlavia holds 3 email addresses for this coaching staff

Read from the department’s own published staff directory, checked against it again on a schedule, and shown with the page and date they came from. Athlavia drafts the approach for you and you send it yourself, from your own address.

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Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are not permitted here

NCAA Division III does not permit athletically-related student aid of any kind. A Division III programme can still be an excellent destination, but no basketball scholarship exists at one — the money there is academic and need-based aid.

Money is still available here: academic awards, need-based grants and institutional bursaries. What does not exist is an award made because of basketball. A recruiter offering one at a NCAA DIII institution is describing something the rules do not allow.

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.

Athlavia holds the cost breakdown

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Type: Private
Enrolment: 7,133
Selectivity: Held — free account
City: Pittsburgh
State or region: Pennsylvania
Country: United States
Campus setting: city
Climate: Not recorded
International share: 19%

Degrees recorded here

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

Apparel and Textiles.
Applied Mathematics.
Architectural Sciences and Technology.
Architecture.
Area Studies.
Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.
Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Behavioral Sciences.
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education.
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other.
Biology, General.
Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology.
Biomedical/Medical Engineering.
Biopsychology.
Business Administration, Management and Operations.
Business/Managerial Economics.
Chemical Engineering.
Chemistry.
Civil Engineering.
Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Cognitive Science.
Computer Programming.
Computer Science.
Computer Software and Media Applications.
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other.
Computer and Information Sciences, General.
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
Design and Applied Arts.
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Economics.
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
Electromechanical Engineering.
Engineering Physics.
Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
Engineering, General.
Engineering, Other.
Engineering-Related Fields.
English Language and Literature, General.
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
Environmental Design.
Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy.
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
Finance and Financial Management Services.
Fine and Studio Arts.
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other.
Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Health and Medical Administrative Services.
History.
International Business.
International Relations and National Security Studies.
International/Globalization Studies.
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
Management Information Systems and Services.
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
Marketing.
Materials Sciences.
Mathematics and Statistics, Other.
Mathematics.
Mechanical Engineering.
Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
Music.
Nanotechnology.
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
Neurobiology and Neurosciences.
Operations Research.
Philosophy.
Physical Sciences, General.
Physical Sciences, Other.
Physics.
Political Science and Government.
Psychology, General.
Psychology, Other.
Public Policy Analysis.
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Science, Technology and Society.
Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Social Sciences, Other.
Statistics.
Systems Science and Theory.
Urban Studies/Affairs.
Visual and Performing Arts, General.
Visual and Performing Arts, Other.

How it compares

Across the 399 NCAA DIII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 16 players. Carnegie Mellon University lists 15, almost exactly the divisional average. Among the 57 NCAA DIII programmes in Pennsylvania, it has the 20th 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

Field	Value	Source	Retrieved	Confidence
Squad size	152025-26	ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball	12 Aug 2026	96%
recruitingBand	64-842025-26	ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($8,016/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 74). Division is not used as an input.	12 Aug 2026	55%
Degrees	91 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy., Architecture.	collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only	12 Aug 2026	90%
costOfAttendance	held — free account2023-24	collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.cost.roomboard.oncampus	12 Aug 2026	92%
Tuition	held — free account2023-24	collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard fields latest.cost.tuition.in_state and latest.cost.tuition.out_of_state	12 Aug 2026	92%
institutionProfile	held — free account	api.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 read verbatim	12 Aug 2026	92%

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.