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Women’s basketball · NCAA Division I

Purdue University-Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana · Public institution · 41,893 students

Listed squad
15
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Recorded
figure available with a free account
Published cost
Recorded
2023-24, available with a free account
Selectivity
Recorded
available with a free account

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. Purdue University-Main Campus reported 15 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 10 NCAA DI women's basketball programmes in Indiana, out of 41 programmes there in total.

Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are permitted

NCAA Division I rules permit athletically-related student aid.

Purdue 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 33 institutions in Indiana whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 41 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

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.

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Type
Public
Enrolment
41,893
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
West Lafayette
State or region
Indiana
Country
United States
Campus setting
city
Climate
Not recorded
International share
10%

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 Engineering.
  • Agricultural Mechanization.
  • Agricultural Production Operations.
  • Agricultural Public Services.
  • Agriculture, General.
  • Air Transportation.
  • Animal Sciences.
  • Anthropology.
  • Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
  • Applied Mathematics.
  • Architectural Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Area Studies.
  • Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology.
  • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
  • Biological and Physical Sciences.
  • Biology, General.
  • Biomedical/Medical Engineering.
  • Botany/Plant Biology.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences.
  • Chemical Engineering.
  • Chemistry.
  • Civil Engineering.
  • Classical and Ancient Studies.
  • Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
  • Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Computer Engineering.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Software and Media Applications.
  • Computer Software and Media Applications.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
  • Construction Engineering.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
  • Economics.
  • Education, General.
  • Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
  • Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
  • Engineering, Other.
  • Engineering-Related Fields.
  • Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Business Services.
  • Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.
  • Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
  • Finance and Financial Management Services.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management.
  • Food Science and Technology.
  • Forestry.
  • General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
  • Genetics.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other.
  • Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
  • History.
  • Hospitality Administration/Management.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Industrial Engineering.
  • Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
  • Landscape Architecture.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
  • Marketing.
  • Materials Engineering.
  • Mathematics and Computer Science.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
  • Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
  • Mechanical Engineering.
  • Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.
  • Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Neurobiology and Neurosciences.
  • Nuclear Engineering.
  • Nutrition Sciences.
  • Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physics.
  • Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences.
  • Plant Sciences.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Health.
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
  • Religion/Religious Studies.
  • Research and Experimental Psychology.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Sociology.
  • Soil Sciences.
  • Special Education and Teaching.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • Statistics.
  • Systems Science and Theory.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
  • Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians.
  • 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. Purdue University-Main Campus lists 15, 2 players below that average. Among the 10 NCAA DI programmes in Indiana, 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

FieldValueSourceRetrievedConfidence
Squad size152025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand89-1002025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($127,654/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 99). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees116 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Agricultural Mechanization.collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only12 Aug 202690%
Tuitionheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard fields latest.cost.tuition.in_state and latest.cost.tuition.out_of_state12 Aug 202692%
costOfAttendanceheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.cost.roomboard.oncampus12 Aug 202692%
institutionProfileheld — free accountapi.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 verbatim12 Aug 202692%

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.