Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Highland Community College reported 16 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 NJCAA (junior college), and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 41 NJCAA women's basketball programmes in Illinois, out of 89 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?
NJCAA Divisions I and II permit athletically-related student aid; Division III does not. The federal return records the association but not the division, so this page does not state which applies here.
Highland Community College 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 64 institutions in Illinois whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 89 that field women’s basketball at all.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for Highland Community College. Athlavia will not print an estimate in its place — tuition varies by residency, by course and by year, and a made-up number is worse than an empty one. The institution’s own admissions pages carry the published figures.
- Type
- Public
- Enrolment
- 536
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Freeport
- State or region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- rural
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 5%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Agricultural Business and Management.
- Agricultural Production Operations.
- Agricultural and Domestic Animal Services.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Energy Systems Technologies/Technicians.
- Engineering, General.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Technologies/Technicians.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering.
- Precision Metal Working.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
- Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
How it compares
Across the 346 NJCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. Highland Community College lists 16, 3 players above that average. Among the 41 NJCAA programmes in Illinois, it has the 1st 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 | 162025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| athleticsUrl | https://highlandcougars.com | highland.eduFollowed an athletics link from https://www.highland.edu/ and confirmed the destination reads as an athletics site | 12 Aug 2026 | 72% |
| recruitingBand | 14-342025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,424/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 24). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 26 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agricultural Business and Management., Agricultural Production Operations., Agricultural and Domestic Animal Services. | collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only | 12 Aug 2026 | 90% |
| institutionProfile | held — free account | api.data.govCollege Scorecard v1 /schools, fields 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.