Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Mercer County Community College reported 12 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 15 NJCAA women's basketball programmes in New Jersey, out of 42 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.
Mercer County 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 15 institutions in New Jersey whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 42 that field women’s basketball at all.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for Mercer County 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
- 2,042
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- West Windsor
- State or region
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- rural
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 8%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Air Transportation.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
- Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
- Architectural Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Architecture and Related Services, Other.
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Civil Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
- Computer Programming.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
- Engineering Science.
- Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other.
- Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
- Fire Protection.
- Funeral Service and Mortuary Science.
- Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Services, General.
- Legal Support Services.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Management Information Systems and Services.
- Manufacturing Engineering.
- Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
- Plant Sciences.
- Public Health.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Visual and Performing Arts, General.
- Visual and Performing Arts, Other.
How it compares
Across the 346 NJCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. Mercer County Community College lists 12, almost exactly the divisional average. Among the 15 NJCAA programmes in New Jersey, 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 | 122025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| athleticsUrl | https://www.mccc.edu/athletics_home.shtml | mccc.eduFollowed an athletics link from https://www.mccc.edu/ and confirmed the destination reads as an athletics site | 12 Aug 2026 | 72% |
| recruitingBand | 10-302025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,172/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 20). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 41 undergraduate degrees listed, including Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services., Plant Sciences., Architecture and Related Services, Other. | 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.