1,982 institutions in 31 countries, on one map.

Five things are deliberately absent from this page rather than hidden on it. They are not blurred, greyed out or sitting in the page source waiting to be read — the query behind this page never asks for them. An account does.

• What a year actually costs

  Tuition, fees, accommodation and the international rate, per academic year.

• What this institution awards

  The aid figures from its own federal return, and the scholarship programmes it publishes — athletic awards, athletic tuition discounts, athlete bursaries, elite-athlete programmes and club-university arrangements are five different things and are shown as five different things.

• How selective it is

  The admissions picture, so a shortlist is not built on hope.

• Which degrees it teaches

  Matched by concept, so a good university is not lost because its degree is called Exercise Science.

• Who to contact

  The women’s basketball staff, each with the source and date the address was last verified.

Everything else on this page is free because it is checkable: the squad sizes come from the Equity in Athletics return United States law requires each institution to file, and the aid rules are the governing bodies’ own published regulations. Where this page says a squad size was not filed, or a conference or a location was not recorded, that is a gap in the source — not a value waiting behind a sign-up.