Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Southern University and A & M College reported 16 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 12 NCAA DI women's basketball programmes in Louisiana, out of 24 programmes there in total.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
NCAA Division I rules permit athletically-related student aid.
Southern University and A & M College 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 23 institutions in Louisiana whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 24 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
- 5,539
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Baton Rouge
- State or region
- Louisiana
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- 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.
- Agriculture, General.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Chemistry.
- Civil Engineering.
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Science.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Forestry.
- History.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Marketing.
- Mathematics.
- Mechanical Engineering.
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
- Music.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.
- Social Work.
- Sociology.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
How it compares
Across the 356 NCAA DI women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. Southern University and A & M College lists 16, almost exactly the divisional average. Among the 12 NCAA DI programmes in Louisiana, 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
| Field | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squad size | 162025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 76-962025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($20,007/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 86). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 31 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Forestry., 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 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. Check it at the source.