Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Principia College reported 20 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 in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. It is one of 22 NCAA DIII women's basketball programmes in Illinois, out of 89 programmes there in total.
The athletics department’s own site is where the current roster and coaching staff are published.
Read from the department’s own published staff directory, checked against it again on a schedule, and shown with the page and date they came from. Athlavia drafts the approach for you and you send it yourself, from your own address.
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
- Private
- Enrolment
- 336
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Elsah
- State or region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- rural
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 41%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Area Studies.
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Chemistry.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Science.
- Dance.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
- Economics.
- Education, General.
- Engineering Science.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
- History.
- International Relations and National Security Studies.
- International/Globalization Studies.
- Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
- Marketing.
- Mathematics.
- Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General.
- Music.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Political Science and Government.
- Religion/Religious Studies.
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Sociology and Anthropology.
- Sociology.
- Sustainability Studies.
How it compares
Across the 399 NCAA DIII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 16 players. Principia College lists 20, 4 players above that average. Among the 22 NCAA DIII programmes in Illinois, it has the 6th 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 | 202025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 49-692025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($4,998/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 59). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 35 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Area Studies., Communication and Media Studies. | 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 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.