Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. College of San Mateo reported 12 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 California CC (CCCAA), and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 92 CCCAA women's basketball programmes in California, out of 161 programmes there in total.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
The California Community College Athletic Association forbids athletic scholarships outright. What makes these colleges affordable is low tuition and state fee waivers — not athletic aid, and a recruiter who implies otherwise is wrong.
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 CCCAA institution is describing something the rules do not allow.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for College of San Mateo. Athlavia will not print an estimate in its place — tuition varies by residency, by course and by year, and a made-up number is worse than an empty one. The institution’s own admissions pages carry the published figures.
- Type
- Public
- Enrolment
- 2,140
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- San Mateo
- State or region
- California
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 4%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Anthropology.
- Architectural Sciences and Technology.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Biology, General.
- Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Chemistry.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Programming.
- Computer Science.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Dance.
- Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Economics.
- Electrical and Power Transmission Installers.
- Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
- Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians.
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
- Engineering, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Fire Protection.
- Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
- Graphic Communications.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
- History.
- Human Services, General.
- Journalism.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mathematics.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Music.
- Non-Professional Legal Studies.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Sciences, General.
- Physics.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Real Estate.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Social Sciences, General.
- Sociology.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Visual and Performing Arts, General.
How it compares
Across the 92 CCCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. College of San Mateo lists 12, almost exactly the divisional average. Among the 92 CCCAA programmes in California, it has the 42nd 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 | 122025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 47-672025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($4,711/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 57). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 61 undergraduate degrees listed, including Architectural Sciences and Technology., Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies., Communication and Media Studies. | collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only | 12 Aug 2026 | 90% |
| institutionProfile | held — free account | api.data.govCollege Scorecard v1 /schools, fields school.locale, location.lat, location.lon, latest.student.demographics.race_ethnicity.non_resident_alien, school.school_url 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.