Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. South Dakota State University 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 in the The Summit League. It is one of 2 NCAA DI women's basketball programmes in South Dakota, out of 11 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 I rules permit athletically-related student aid.
South Dakota State University 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.
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.
It is one of 11 institutions in South Dakota whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 11 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.
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
- 8,125
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Brookings
- State or region
- South Dakota
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- rural
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 4%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Agricultural Business and Management.
- Agricultural Engineering.
- Agricultural Mechanization.
- Agricultural Production Operations.
- Agricultural Public Services.
- Agriculture, General.
- Agriculture, General.
- Air Transportation.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Animal Sciences.
- Apparel and Textiles.
- Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
- Architectural Sciences and Technology.
- Architecture.
- Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
- Biology, General.
- Biotechnology.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Managerial Economics.
- Chemistry.
- City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning.
- Civil Engineering.
- Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Construction Engineering Technology/Technician.
- Construction Engineering Technology/Technician.
- Construction Management.
- Criminology.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Economics.
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
- Engineering-Related Fields.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy.
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
- Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Food Science and Technology.
- Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
- Geography and Cartography.
- Geography and Environmental Studies.
- Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- History.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
- International/Globalization Studies.
- Journalism.
- Landscape Architecture.
- Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mathematics.
- Mechanical Engineering.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.
- Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General.
- Music.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.
- Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.
- Physics.
- Plant Sciences.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Public Health.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Sociology.
- Sociology.
- Special Education and Teaching.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Statistics.
- Statistics.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
- Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management.
How it compares
Across the 356 NCAA DI women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. South Dakota State University lists 15, 2 players below that average. Among the 2 NCAA DI programmes in South Dakota, it has the 1st 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 | 152025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 84-1002025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($45,219/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 94). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 89 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agriculture, General., 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 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.