Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Methodist University reported 22 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 USA South Athletic Conference. It is one of 9 NCAA DIII women's basketball programmes in North Carolina, out of 55 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
- 1,350
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Fayetteville
- State or region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 7%
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.
- Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other.
- Biology, General.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences.
- Chemistry.
- Chemistry.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Science.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
- Education, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Fire Protection.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
- History.
- Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other.
- Industrial Engineering.
- International Relations and National Security Studies.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Marketing.
- Mathematics.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.
- Music.
- Pharmacology and Toxicology.
- Political Science and Government.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Psychology, Other.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Religion/Religious Studies.
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Security Science and Technology.
- Social Work.
- Sociology.
- Special Education and Teaching.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
How it compares
Across the 399 NCAA DIII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 16 players. Methodist University lists 22, 6 players above that average. Among the 9 NCAA DIII programmes in North Carolina, 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 | 222025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 26-462025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($3,105/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 36). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 58 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.