Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Lindsey Wilson College reported 27 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 NAIA, and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 10 NAIA women's basketball programmes in Kentucky, out of 27 programmes there in total.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
NAIA rules permit athletically-related student aid.
Lindsey Wilson 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 21 institutions in Kentucky whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 27 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
- 1,507
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Columbia
- State or region
- Kentucky
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- rural
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 10%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Engineering, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
- History.
- Human Services, General.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mathematics.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Natural Resources and Conservation, Other.
- Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Religion/Religious Studies.
- Religious Education.
- Research and Experimental Psychology.
- Social Sciences, General.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
- Visual and Performing Arts, General.
How it compares
Across the 220 NAIA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 20 players. Lindsey Wilson College lists 27, 7 players above that average. Among the 10 NAIA programmes in Kentucky, it has the 3rd 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 | 272025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 18-382025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,655/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 28). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 29 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Natural Resources and Conservation, Other., Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies. | 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.