Ohio State University-Main Campus — women’s basketball scholarships

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. Ohio 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 13 NCAA DI women's basketball programmes in Ohio, out of 63 programmes there in total.

Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are permitted

NCAA Division I rules permit athletically-related student aid.

Ohio 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 36 institutions in Ohio whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 63 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: 42,955
Selectivity: Held — free account
City: Columbus
State or region: Ohio
Country: United States
Campus setting: city
Climate: Not recorded
International share: 8%

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 Business and Management.
Agricultural Engineering.
Agricultural Engineering.
Agricultural Mechanization.
Agricultural Mechanization.
Agricultural Production Operations.
Agricultural Production Operations.
Agricultural Public Services.
Agricultural Public Services.
Agricultural and Food Products Processing.
Agricultural and Food Products Processing.
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields, Other.
Agriculture, General.
Agriculture/Veterinary Preparatory Programs.
Air Transportation.
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
Animal Sciences.
Animal Sciences.
Anthropology.
Apparel and Textiles.
Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
Applied Mathematics.
Architectural Sciences and Technology.
Architecture.
Area Studies.
Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.
Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology.
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
Biology, General.
Biomedical/Medical Engineering.
Botany/Plant Biology.
Business Administration, Management and Operations.
Business/Commerce, General.
Business/Managerial Economics.
Chemical Engineering.
Chemistry.
City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning.
Civil Engineering.
Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
Communication and Media Studies.
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other.
Computer Engineering.
Computer and Information Sciences, General.
Construction Engineering Technology/Technician.
Construction Management.
Criminology.
Dance.
Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
Design and Applied Arts.
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Economics.
Education, General.
Educational Administration and Supervision.
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
Engineering Physics.
Engineering, Other.
Engineering, Other.
Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians.
English Language and Literature, General.
Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.
Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy.
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.
Food Science and Technology.
Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
Genetics.
Geography and Cartography.
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
Health and Medical Administrative Services.
Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
History.
Hospitality Administration/Management.
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
Human Resources Management and Services.
Industrial Engineering.
Insurance.
International Business.
International Relations and National Security Studies.
International/Globalization Studies.
Journalism.
Landscape Architecture.
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
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.
Materials Engineering.
Mathematics.
Mechanical Engineering.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.
Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Modern Greek Language and Literature.
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
Music.
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
Neurobiology and Neurosciences.
Non-Professional Legal Studies.
Nutrition Sciences.
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.
Philosophy.
Physics.
Plant Sciences.
Plant Sciences.
Political Science and Government.
Psychology, General.
Public Administration.
Public Health.
Public Policy Analysis.
Real Estate.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.
Religion/Religious Studies.
Research and Experimental Psychology.
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Social Sciences, General.
Social Work.
Sociology.
Special Education and Teaching.
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
Statistics.
Sustainability Studies.
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.
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language.
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. Ohio State University-Main Campus lists 14, 3 players below that average. Among the 13 NCAA DI programmes in Ohio, it has the 10th 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	89-1002025-26	ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($145,512/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 99). Division is not used as an input.	12 Aug 2026	55%
Degrees	150 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Agricultural Business and Management.	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.