Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Dakota State University reported 23 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 NAIA, and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 3 NAIA women's basketball programmes in South Dakota, out of 11 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?
NAIA rules permit athletically-related student aid.
Dakota State University 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.
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.
It is one of 11 institutions in South Dakota whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 11 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.
A single yearly total tells a family almost nothing. What decides whether a place is reachable is which line is the big one, and whether the international rate differs — so Athlavia shows the lines, not a headline.
- Type
- Public
- Enrolment
- 1,597
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Madison
- State or region
- South Dakota
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- rural
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 6%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- English Language and Literature/Letters, Other.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Information Science/Studies.
- Information Science/Studies.
- Intelligence, Command Control and Information Operations.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Marketing.
- Mathematics.
- Medical Illustration and Informatics.
- Medical Illustration and Informatics.
- Physical Sciences, General.
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
- Special Education and Teaching.
- 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 220 NAIA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 20 players. Dakota State University lists 23, 3 players above that average. Among the 3 NAIA programmes in South Dakota, 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 | 232025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| athleticsUrl | https://dsuathletics.com | dsu.eduFollowed an athletics link from https://dsu.edu/ and confirmed the destination reads as an athletics site | 12 Aug 2026 | 72% |
| recruitingBand | 24-442025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,976/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 34). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 33 undergraduate degrees listed, including Computer and Information Sciences, General., Information Science/Studies., Information Science/Studies. | 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.