Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania — women’s basketball scholarships

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania reported 43 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 II, and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 17 NCAA DII 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.

Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are permitted

NCAA Division II rules permit athletically-related student aid. Division II is an equivalency division, so the permitted aid can be divided across a squad and a partial award is ordinary rather than a disappointment.

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania 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 34 institutions in Pennsylvania whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 113 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.

Athlavia holds the cost breakdown

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Type: Public
Enrolment: 8,707
Selectivity: Held — free account
City: Bloomsburg
State or region: Pennsylvania
Country: United States
Campus setting: rural
Climate: Not recorded
International share: 0%

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.
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
American Sign Language.
Anthropology.
Biology, General.
Business Administration, Management and Operations.
Business Administration, Management and Operations.
Business/Commerce, General.
Chemistry.
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
Communication and Media Studies.
Computer Science.
Computer and Information Sciences, General.
Computer and Information Sciences, General.
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
Criminal Justice and Corrections.
Criminal Justice and Corrections.
Design and Applied Arts.
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
Economics.
Education, General.
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
English Language and Literature, General.
Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
Finance and Financial Management Services.
Fine and Studio Arts.
General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
Geography and Cartography.
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other.
Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other.
Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
History.
International Business.
International Relations and National Security Studies.
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
Mathematics.
Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
Mining and Petroleum Technologies/Technicians.
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General.
Music.
Nanotechnology.
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.
Philosophy.
Physical Science Technologies/Technicians.
Physics.
Political Science and Government.
Psychology, General.
Public Health.
Public Health.
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Security Science and Technology.
Social Sciences, General.
Social Sciences, Other.
Social Work.
Sociology.
Special Education and Teaching.
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
Sustainability Studies.
Sustainability Studies.
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.

How it compares

Across the 293 NCAA DII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania lists 43, 26 players above that average. Among the 17 NCAA DII programmes in Pennsylvania, it has the 2nd 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	432025-26	ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball	12 Aug 2026	96%
athleticsUrl	https://bloomsburgathletics.com	commonwealthu.eduFollowed an athletics link from https://www.commonwealthu.edu/ and confirmed the destination reads as an athletics site	12 Aug 2026	72%
recruitingBand	42-622025-26	ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($4,230/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 52). Division is not used as an input.	12 Aug 2026	55%
Degrees	73 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Communication and Media Studies., Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.	collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only	12 Aug 2026	90%
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%
costOfAttendance	held — free account2023-24	collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.cost.roomboard.oncampus	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, 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. Check it at the source.