Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Drexel University reported 24 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 in the Coastal Athletic Association. It is one of 15 NCAA DI 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.
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.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
NCAA Division I rules permit athletically-related student aid.
Drexel 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 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.
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
- Private
- Enrolment
- 12,302
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Philadelphia
- State or region
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 9%
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 and Medical Assisting Services.
- Anthropology.
- Architectural Engineering.
- Architectural History, Criticism, and Conservation.
- Architecture.
- Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Biology, General.
- Biomedical/Medical Engineering.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Chemical Engineering.
- Chemistry.
- Civil Engineering.
- Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other.
- Computer Engineering.
- Computer Science.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Construction Management.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Criminology.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Dance.
- Data Analytics.
- Data Science.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Economics.
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
- Electromechanical Engineering.
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
- Engineering, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- English Language and Literature/Letters, Other.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
- Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Graphic Communications.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
- History.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Information Science/Studies.
- International Business.
- International/Globalization Studies.
- Legal Professions and Studies, Other.
- Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies.
- Leisure and Recreational Activities.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Management Information Systems and Services.
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
- Marketing.
- Materials Engineering.
- Mathematics.
- Mechanical Engineering.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Nutrition Sciences.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Public Health.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Real Estate.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Research and Experimental Psychology.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Sociology.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
- Visual and Performing Arts, General.
How it compares
Across the 356 NCAA DI women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. Drexel University lists 24, 7 players above that average. Among the 15 NCAA DI programmes in Pennsylvania, 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
| Field | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squad size | 242025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 75-952025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($18,197/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 85). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 86 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Architecture., Architectural History, Criticism, and Conservation. | 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 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.