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Women’s basketball · Other association · Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Ferris State University

Big Rapids, Michigan · Public institution · 6,557 students

Listed squad
13
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Recorded
figure available with a free account
Published cost
Recorded
2023-24, available with a free account
Selectivity
Recorded
available with a free account

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. Ferris State University reported 13 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 Other association and in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. It is the only Other association women's basketball programme in Michigan, out of 59 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?

The governing association is not recorded

Athlavia has not established which association governs this programme, so it cannot say whether athletic aid is permitted here.

Ferris 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.

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 48 institutions in Michigan whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 59 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

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.

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Type
Public
Enrolment
6,557
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
Big Rapids
State or region
Michigan
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.
  • Accounting and Related Services.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • Applied Mathematics.
  • Architectural Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Architectural Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.
  • Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
  • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
  • Biological and Physical Sciences.
  • Biology, General.
  • Biotechnology.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Chemistry.
  • Civil Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
  • Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
  • Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services, Other.
  • Community Organization and Advocacy.
  • Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.
  • Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.
  • Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
  • Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
  • Construction Engineering Technology/Technician.
  • Construction Management.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Culinary Arts and Related Services.
  • Data Analytics.
  • Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
  • Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
  • Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
  • Economics.
  • Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
  • Energy Systems Technologies/Technicians.
  • Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
  • Engineering, General.
  • Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians.
  • Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
  • Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
  • Finance and Financial Management Services.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Graphic Communications.
  • Graphic Communications.
  • Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other.
  • Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other.
  • Health and Medical Administrative Services.
  • Health and Medical Administrative Services.
  • Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
  • Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
  • Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Technologies/Technicians.
  • Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Technologies/Technicians.
  • History.
  • Hospitality Administration/Management.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Human Resources Management and Services.
  • Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
  • Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
  • Insurance.
  • Legal Support Services.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
  • Manufacturing Engineering.
  • Marketing.
  • Marketing.
  • Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
  • Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
  • Physical Science Technologies/Technicians.
  • Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Precision Metal Working.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Health.
  • Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Social Sciences, Other.
  • Social Work.
  • Social Work.
  • Sociology.
  • Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
  • Surveying Engineering.
  • Systems Engineering.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
  • Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.

How it compares

Across the 84 Other association women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 14 players. Ferris State University lists 13, almost exactly the divisional average.

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

FieldValueSourceRetrievedConfidence
Squad size132025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand67-872025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($9,137/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 77). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees104 undergraduate degrees listed, including Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication., Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians., Graphic Communications.collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only12 Aug 202690%
Tuitionheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard fields latest.cost.tuition.in_state and latest.cost.tuition.out_of_state12 Aug 202692%
costOfAttendanceheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.cost.roomboard.oncampus12 Aug 202692%
institutionProfileheld — free accountapi.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 verbatim12 Aug 202692%

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.