Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Lackawanna College reported 17 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 5 NJCAA women's basketball programmes in Pennsylvania, out of 113 programmes there in total.
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.
Lackawanna 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 34 institutions in Pennsylvania whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 113 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
- Private
- Enrolment
- 1,455
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Scranton
- State or region
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- 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.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Agricultural Business and Management.
- Agriculture, General.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Education, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Management Information Systems and Services.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Mining and Petroleum Technologies/Technicians.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Psychology, General.
- Psychology, Other.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
How it compares
Across the 346 NJCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. Lackawanna College lists 17, 4 players above that average. Among the 5 NJCAA programmes in Pennsylvania, 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 | 172025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 5-252025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($1,939/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 15). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 31 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Natural Resources Conservation and Research. | 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 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.