Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Howard Payne University reported 19 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 III and in the American Southwest Conference. It is one of 14 NCAA DIII women's basketball programmes in Texas, out of 94 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 III does not permit athletically-related student aid of any kind. A Division III programme can still be an excellent destination, but no basketball scholarship exists at one — the money there is academic and need-based aid.
Money is still available here: academic awards, need-based grants and institutional bursaries. What does not exist is an award made because of basketball. A recruiter offering one at a NCAA DIII institution is describing something the rules do not allow.
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
- 661
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Brownwood
- State or region
- Texas
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- rural
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 0%
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.
- Bible/Biblical Studies.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Chemistry.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Criminology.
- Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Engineering Mechanics.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- History.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- International Relations and National Security Studies.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Management Information Systems and Services.
- Marketing.
- Mathematics.
- Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology.
- Music.
- Non-Professional Legal Studies.
- Pastoral Counseling and Specialized Ministries.
- Pastoral Counseling and Specialized Ministries.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Religion/Religious Studies.
- Religion/Religious Studies.
- Religious Education.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Social Work.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
- Theological and Ministerial Studies.
How it compares
Across the 399 NCAA DIII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 16 players. Howard Payne University lists 19, 3 players above that average. Among the 14 NCAA DIII programmes in Texas, it has the 5th 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 | 192025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 7-272025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,019/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 17). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 43 undergraduate degrees listed, including Communication and Media Studies., Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication., Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 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.