Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Northwood University reported 17 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 Great Midwest Athletic Conference. It is one of 8 NCAA DII women's basketball programmes in Michigan, out of 59 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 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.
Northwood 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.
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 48 institutions in Michigan whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 59 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
- Private
- Enrolment
- 1,336
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Midland
- State or region
- Michigan
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- 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.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Managerial Economics.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Information Science/Studies.
- Insurance.
- International Business.
- Management Information Systems and Services.
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
- Marketing.
- Marketing.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Security Science and Technology.
- Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
- Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
How it compares
Across the 293 NCAA DII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. Northwood University lists 17, almost exactly the divisional average. Among the 8 NCAA DII programmes in Michigan, it has the 3rd 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 | 172025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 62-822025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($7,181/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 72). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 25 undergraduate degrees listed, including Radio, Television, and Digital Communication., 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. Check it at the source.