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Women’s basketball · NCAA Division I

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana · Public institution · 12,884 students

Listed squad
15
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Recorded
figure available with a free account
Published cost
Recorded
2023-24, available with a free account
Selectivity
Recorded
available with a free account

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. Montana State University reported 15 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 I, and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 2 NCAA DI women's basketball programmes in Montana, out of 12 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?

Athletic scholarships are permitted

NCAA Division I rules permit athletically-related student aid.

Montana State University 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.

Athlavia holds the reported figure

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.

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It is one of 11 institutions in Montana whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 12 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.

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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.

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Type
Public
Enrolment
12,884
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
Bozeman
State or region
Montana
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.

  • Agricultural Business and Management.
  • Air Transportation.
  • Animal Sciences.
  • Anthropology.
  • Architectural Sciences and Technology.
  • Area Studies.
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Biology, General.
  • Biomedical/Medical Engineering.
  • Biotechnology.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences.
  • Chemical Engineering.
  • Chemistry.
  • Civil Engineering.
  • Computer Engineering.
  • Computer Science.
  • Construction Engineering Technology/Technician.
  • Culinary Arts and Related Services.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Economics.
  • Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
  • Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • Environmental Design.
  • Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.
  • Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy.
  • Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.
  • Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
  • Finance and Financial Management Services.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Technology/Technician (HAC, HACR, HVAC, HVACR).
  • History.
  • Hospitality Administration/Management.
  • Industrial Engineering.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
  • Mechanical Engineering.
  • Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
  • Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.
  • Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physics.
  • Plant Sciences.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
  • Religion/Religious Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Security Science and Technology.
  • Sociology.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • Statistics.
  • Sustainability Studies.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
  • Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management.

How it compares

Across the 356 NCAA DI women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. Montana State University lists 15, 2 players below that average. Among the 2 NCAA DI programmes in Montana, it has the 2nd 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

FieldValueSourceRetrievedConfidence
Squad size152025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
athleticsUrlhttps://msubobcats.commontana.eduFollowed an athletics link from https://www.montana.edu/ and confirmed the destination reads as an athletics site12 Aug 202672%
recruitingBand82-1002025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($36,469/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 92). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees68 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agricultural Business and Management., Animal Sciences., Plant Sciences.collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only12 Aug 202690%
Tuitionheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard fields latest.cost.tuition.in_state and latest.cost.tuition.out_of_state12 Aug 202692%
costOfAttendanceheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.cost.roomboard.oncampus12 Aug 202692%
institutionProfileheld — free accountapi.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, school.school_url read verbatim12 Aug 202692%

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.