Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Fairmont State University reported 14 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 in the Mountain East Conference. It is one of 12 NCAA DII women's basketball programmes in West Virginia, out of 18 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 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.
Fairmont 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 16 institutions in West Virginia whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 18 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
- 2,286
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Fairmont
- State or region
- West Virginia
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- rural
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 1%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Air Transportation.
- Architectural Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Architectural Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Architectural Sciences and Technology.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Chemistry.
- Civil Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Civil Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Education, General.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Graphic Communications.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- History.
- Information Science/Studies.
- International Relations and National Security Studies.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mathematics.
- Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
- Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
- Music.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Public Health.
- Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians.
- Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Security Science and Technology.
- Sociology.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Surveying Engineering.
How it compares
Across the 293 NCAA DII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. Fairmont State University lists 14, 3 players below that average. Among the 12 NCAA DII programmes in West Virginia, it has the 11th 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 | 142025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 45-652025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($4,582/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 55). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 41 undergraduate degrees listed, including Architectural Sciences and Technology., Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other., Graphic Communications. | 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.