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Women’s basketball · NCAA Division III

SUNY Buffalo State University

Buffalo, New York · Public institution · 4,684 students

Listed squad
12
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Not permitted
NCAA DIII rules forbid it
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. SUNY Buffalo State University reported 12 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 III, and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 56 NCAA DIII women's basketball programmes in New York, out of 130 programmes there in total.

Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are not permitted here

NCAA Division III does not permit athletically-related student aid of any kind. A Division III programme can still be an excellent destination, but no basketball scholarship exists at one — the money there is academic and need-based aid.

Money is still available here: academic awards, need-based grants and institutional bursaries. What does not exist is an award made because of basketball. A recruiter offering one at a NCAA DIII institution is describing something the rules do not allow.

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
4,684
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
Buffalo
State or region
New York
Country
United States
Campus setting
city
Climate
Not recorded
International share
1%

Degrees recorded here

Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.

  • Anthropology.
  • Apparel and Textiles.
  • Applied Mathematics.
  • Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
  • Biology, General.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Chemistry.
  • Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other.
  • Crafts/Craft Design, Folk Art and Artisanry.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Curriculum and Instruction.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
  • Economics.
  • Education, Other.
  • Educational Administration and Supervision.
  • Educational/Instructional Media Design.
  • Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Energy Systems Technologies/Technicians.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies.
  • Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other.
  • Geography and Cartography.
  • Geography and Environmental Studies.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • Graphic Communications.
  • Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
  • History.
  • Hospitality Administration/Management.
  • Human Resources Management and Services.
  • Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
  • Information Science/Studies.
  • International Relations and National Security Studies.
  • Journalism.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
  • Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General.
  • Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
  • Museology/Museum Studies.
  • Music.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physics.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Administration and Social Service Professions, Other.
  • Public Health.
  • Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
  • Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Security Science and Technology.
  • Social Sciences, General.
  • Social Work.
  • Sociology.
  • Special Education and Teaching.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
  • Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language.
  • Urban Studies/Affairs.
  • Woodworking.

How it compares

Across the 399 NCAA DIII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 16 players. SUNY Buffalo State University lists 12, 4 players below that average. Among the 56 NCAA DIII programmes in New York, it has the 43rd 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 size122025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand43-632025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($4,298/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 53). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees69 undergraduate degrees listed, including Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies., Communication and Media Studies., Journalism.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.