Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Laney College reported 10 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 California CC (CCCAA), and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 92 CCCAA women's basketball programmes in California, out of 161 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 California Community College Athletic Association forbids athletic scholarships outright. What makes these colleges affordable is low tuition and state fee waivers — not athletic aid, and a recruiter who implies otherwise is wrong.
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 CCCAA institution is describing something the rules do not allow.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for Laney 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
- 1,607
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Oakland
- State or region
- California
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- 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.
- Anthropology.
- Architectural Sciences and Technology.
- Area Studies.
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Biology, General.
- Biology/Biotechnology Technologies/Technicians.
- Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Carpenters.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Programming.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Dance.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Economics.
- Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
- Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- English Language and Literature/Letters, Other.
- Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
- Geography and Cartography.
- History.
- Human Resources Management and Services.
- International/Globalization Studies.
- Journalism.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mathematics.
- Music.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Political Science and Government.
- Precision Metal Working.
- Psychology, General.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Social Sciences, General.
- Sociology.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Woodworking.
How it compares
Across the 92 CCCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. Laney College lists 10, 3 players below that average. Among the 92 CCCAA programmes in California, it has the 68th 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 | 102025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| athleticsUrl | https://laney.edu/athletics | laney.eduFollowed an athletics link from https://laney.edu/ and confirmed the destination reads as an athletics site | 12 Aug 2026 | 72% |
| recruitingBand | 1-212025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($1,670/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 11). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 52 undergraduate degrees listed, including Architectural Sciences and Technology., Area Studies., Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies. | 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.