Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. North Dakota State University-Main Campus 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 I, and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 2 NCAA DI women's basketball programmes in North Dakota, out of 16 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?
NCAA Division I rules permit athletically-related student aid.
North Dakota 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.
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 North Dakota whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 16 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.
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
- Public
- Enrolment
- 8,680
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Fargo
- State or region
- North Dakota
- 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.
- Agricultural Business and Management.
- Agricultural Engineering.
- Agricultural Mechanization.
- Agricultural Production Operations.
- Agricultural Public Services.
- Agricultural and Domestic Animal Services.
- Agriculture, General.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Animal Sciences.
- Anthropology.
- Apparel and Textiles.
- Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
- Architecture.
- Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
- Biology, General.
- Biotechnology.
- Botany/Plant Biology.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Corporate Communications.
- Chemistry.
- Civil Engineering.
- Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
- Computer Engineering.
- Computer Science.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Construction Engineering Technology/Technician.
- Construction Engineering.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Economics.
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Environmental Design.
- 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.
- Food Science and Technology.
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
- Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- History.
- Homeland Security.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Industrial Engineering.
- International Business.
- International/Globalization Studies.
- Journalism.
- Landscape Architecture.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Management Information Systems and Services.
- Manufacturing Engineering.
- Marketing.
- Mathematics.
- Mechanical Engineering.
- Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
- Music.
- Nutrition Sciences.
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Plant Sciences.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Research and Experimental Psychology.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Sociology.
- Soil Sciences.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Statistics.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
- Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians.
- Zoology/Animal Biology.
How it compares
Across the 356 NCAA DI women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. North Dakota State University-Main Campus lists 14, 3 players below that average. Among the 2 NCAA DI programmes in North Dakota, 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
| Field | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squad size | 142025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| athleticsUrl | https://gobison.com | ndsu.eduFollowed an athletics link from https://www.ndsu.edu/ and confirmed the destination reads as an athletics site | 12 Aug 2026 | 72% |
| recruitingBand | 83-1002025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($40,552/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 93). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 82 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Agricultural Mechanization. | 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, 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.