Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. University of Arkansas-Fort Smith 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 II and in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association. It is one of 7 NCAA DII women's basketball programmes in Arkansas, out of 32 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 II rules permit athletically-related student aid. Division II is an equivalency division, so the permitted aid can be divided across a squad and a partial award is ordinary rather than a disappointment.
University of Arkansas-Fort Smith 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 28 institutions in Arkansas whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 32 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
- 3,195
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Fort Smith
- State or region
- Arkansas
- 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.
- Air Transportation.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Chemistry.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Science.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
- Engineering, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
- Graphic Communications.
- History.
- Legal Support Services.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mathematics.
- Mechanics and Repairers, General.
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
- Music.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Security Science and Technology.
- Social Work.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
How it compares
Across the 293 NCAA DII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. University of Arkansas-Fort Smith lists 15, 2 players below that average. Among the 7 NCAA DII programmes in Arkansas, 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 | 152025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 72-922025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($13,863/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 82). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 44 undergraduate degrees listed, including Communication and Media Studies., Graphic Communications., Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 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.