Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Metropolitan State University of Denver reported 14 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 II and in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. It is one of 10 NCAA DII women's basketball programmes in Colorado, out of 20 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 II rules permit athletically-related student aid. Division II is an equivalency division, so the permitted aid can be divided across a squad and a partial award is ordinary rather than a disappointment.
Metropolitan State University of Denver 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 19 institutions in Colorado whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 20 that field women’s basketball at all.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for Metropolitan State University of Denver. 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
- 8,462
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Denver
- State or region
- Colorado
- 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.
- Air Transportation.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems.
- Anthropology.
- Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology.
- Behavioral Sciences.
- Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Chemistry.
- Civil Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
- Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other.
- Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Computer Engineering.
- Computer Science.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Construction Management.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Dance.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Economics.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.
- Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy.
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Fire Protection.
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
- Geography and Cartography.
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
- Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- History.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Resources Management and Services.
- Human Services, General.
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
- Journalism.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
- Management Information Systems and Services.
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
- Marketing.
- Mathematics.
- Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
- Medical Illustration and Informatics.
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
- Music.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Nutrition Sciences.
- Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Public Health.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Research and Experimental Psychology.
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
- Social Work.
- Sociology.
- Special Education and Teaching.
- Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Statistics.
- Systems Engineering.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
How it compares
Across the 293 NCAA DII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. Metropolitan State University of Denver lists 14, 3 players below that average. Among the 10 NCAA DII programmes in Colorado, it has the 5th 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 | 142025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 65-852025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($8,218/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 75). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 76 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy., 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 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. Check it at the source.