Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg 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 III, and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 57 NCAA DIII women's basketball programmes in Pennsylvania, out of 113 programmes there in total.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
NCAA Division III does not permit athletically-related student aid of any kind. A Division III programme can still be an excellent destination, but no basketball scholarship exists at one — the money there is academic and need-based aid.
Money is still available here: academic awards, need-based grants and institutional bursaries. What does not exist is an award made because of basketball. A recruiter offering one at a NCAA DIII institution is describing something the rules do not allow.
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
- 3,798
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Middletown
- State or region
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- suburban
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 14%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Applied Mathematics.
- Area Studies.
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Civil Engineering.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Engineering.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Economics.
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Human Resources Management and Services.
- Information Science/Studies.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
- Marketing.
- Mechanical Engineering.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Public Policy Analysis.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Sociology.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
How it compares
Across the 399 NCAA DIII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 16 players. Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg lists 14, 2 players below that average. Among the 57 NCAA DIII programmes in Pennsylvania, it has the 32nd 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 | 12-322025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,299/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 22). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 37 undergraduate degrees listed, including Area Studies., Communication and Media Studies., Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | 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.