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Women’s basketball · NCAA Division I

New Mexico State University-Main Campus

Las Cruces, New Mexico · Public institution · 10,139 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. New Mexico State University-Main Campus 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 New Mexico, out of 9 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.

New Mexico State University-Main Campus 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 9 institutions in New Mexico whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 9 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.

Athlavia holds the cost breakdown

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Type
Public
Enrolment
10,139
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
Las Cruces
State or region
New Mexico
Country
United States
Campus setting
suburban
Climate
Not recorded
International share
2%

Degrees recorded here

Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.

  • Accounting and Related Services.
  • Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering.
  • Agricultural Business and Management.
  • Agricultural Public Services.
  • Agriculture, General.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
  • Animal Sciences.
  • Anthropology.
  • Apparel and Textiles.
  • Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
  • Architectural Sciences and Technology.
  • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
  • Biology, General.
  • Botany/Plant Biology.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Chemical Engineering.
  • Chemistry.
  • City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning.
  • Civil Engineering.
  • Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Community Organization and Advocacy.
  • Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Computer Programming.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Culinary Arts and Related Services.
  • Curriculum and Instruction.
  • Dance.
  • Data Processing.
  • Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
  • Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
  • Economics.
  • Educational Administration and Supervision.
  • Electrical and Power Transmission Installers.
  • Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
  • Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians.
  • Engineering Physics.
  • Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
  • Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
  • Engineering, General.
  • Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
  • Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies.
  • Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
  • Finance and Financial Management Services.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Fire Protection.
  • Food Science and Technology.
  • Genetics.
  • Geography and Cartography.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • Geological/Geophysical Engineering.
  • Graphic Communications.
  • Graphic Communications.
  • Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
  • Health and Medical Administrative Services.
  • Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Technology/Technician (HAC, HACR, HVAC, HVACR).
  • History.
  • Hospitality Administration/Management.
  • Hospitality Administration/Management.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Industrial Engineering.
  • International Business.
  • Journalism.
  • Legal Support Services.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Library Science and Administration.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Marketing.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mechanical Engineering.
  • Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
  • Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physics.
  • Plant Sciences.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.
  • Precision Metal Working.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Health.
  • Public Health.
  • Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Social Work.
  • Social Work.
  • Sociology.
  • Soil Sciences.
  • 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 Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
  • Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
  • Visual and Performing Arts, General.
  • Visual and Performing Arts, General.
  • 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. New Mexico State University-Main Campus lists 15, 2 players below that average. Among the 2 NCAA DI programmes in New Mexico, 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

FieldValueSourceRetrievedConfidence
Squad size152025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
athleticsUrlhttps://nmstatesports.comnmsu.eduFollowed an athletics link from https://www.nmsu.edu/ and confirmed the destination reads as an athletics site12 Aug 202672%
recruitingBand84-1002025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($46,783/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 94). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees120 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.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.