Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Ridgewater College reported 7 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 NJCAA (junior college), and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 10 NJCAA women's basketball programmes in Minnesota, out of 38 programmes there in total.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
NJCAA Divisions I and II permit athletically-related student aid; Division III does not. The federal return records the association but not the division, so this page does not state which applies here.
NJCAA rules allow athletic aid, but no figure has been recorded for this institution. That is an absence of evidence rather than evidence of absence: ask the coaching staff directly what is available for basketball.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for Ridgewater College. Athlavia will not print an estimate in its place — tuition varies by residency, by course and by year, and a made-up number is worse than an empty one. The institution’s own admissions pages carry the published figures.
- Type
- Public
- Enrolment
- 1,258
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Willmar
- State or region
- Minnesota
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- rural
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 0%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Agricultural Business and Management.
- Agricultural Production Operations.
- Agriculture, General.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Biology, General.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Chemistry.
- Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Computer Programming.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Electrical and Power Transmission Installers.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians.
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Legal Support Services.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Marketing.
- Plant Sciences.
- Precision Metal Working.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.
- Somatic Bodywork and Related Therapeutic Services.
- Special Education and Teaching.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teaching Assistants/Aides.
- Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
- Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians.
How it compares
Across the 346 NJCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. Ridgewater College lists 7, 6 players below that average. Among the 10 NJCAA programmes in Minnesota, it has the 9th 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 | 72025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 23-432025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,911/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 33). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 39 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Agricultural Production Operations. | collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only | 12 Aug 2026 | 90% |
| 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, 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.