Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. University of Bridgeport reported 19 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 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference. It is one of 4 NCAA DII women's basketball programmes in Connecticut, out of 20 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, with the page and date they came from. No address is published for them, so the directory page is the route in.
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 Bridgeport 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 9 institutions in Connecticut whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 20 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
- Private
- Enrolment
- 1,247
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Bridgeport
- State or region
- Connecticut
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 5%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Applied Mathematics.
- Area Studies.
- Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Community Organization and Advocacy.
- Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Computer Engineering.
- Computer Science.
- Construction Management.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
- Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other.
- Human Resources Management and Services.
- Human Services, General.
- International Business.
- International Relations and National Security Studies.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Management Information Systems and Services.
- Marketing.
- Mathematics.
- Mechanical Engineering.
- Music.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Religion/Religious Studies.
- Social Sciences, General.
- Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
- Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Visual and Performing Arts, General.
How it compares
Across the 293 NCAA DII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. University of Bridgeport lists 19, 2 players above that average. Among the 4 NCAA DII programmes in Connecticut, 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 | 192025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 30-502025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($3,425/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 40). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 45 undergraduate degrees listed, including Area Studies., Communication and Media Studies., Computer Science. | 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.