Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Southwest Virginia Community College reported 11 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 Other association, and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is the only Other association women's basketball programme in Virginia, out of 39 programmes there in total.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
Athlavia has not established which association governs this programme, so it cannot say whether athletic aid is permitted here.
Southwest Virginia Community 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 22 institutions in Virginia whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 39 that field women’s basketball at all.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for Southwest Virginia Community 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
- 972
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Cedar Bluff
- State or region
- Virginia
- 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.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Mining and Petroleum Technologies/Technicians.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
How it compares
Across the 84 Other association women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 14 players. Southwest Virginia Community College lists 11, 3 players below that average.
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 | 112025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 10-302025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,235/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 20). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 15 undergraduate degrees listed, including Computer and Information Sciences, General., Culinary Arts and Related Services., Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians. | 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. Check it at the source.