Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign reported 26 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 in the Big Ten Conference. It is one of 13 NCAA DI women's basketball programmes in Illinois, out of 89 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 I rules permit athletically-related student aid.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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 64 institutions in Illinois whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 89 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
- 35,619
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Champaign
- State or region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 14%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering.
- Agricultural Business and Management.
- Agricultural Engineering.
- Agricultural Public Services.
- Agriculture, General.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Animal Sciences.
- Anthropology.
- Architectural Sciences and Technology.
- Architecture.
- Area Studies.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics.
- Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology.
- Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other.
- Biology, General.
- Biomedical/Medical Engineering.
- Biotechnology.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other.
- Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences.
- Chemical Engineering.
- Chemistry.
- City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning.
- Civil Engineering.
- Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Cognitive Science.
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Engineering.
- Computer Science.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Crafts/Craft Design, Folk Art and Artisanry.
- Dance.
- Data Analytics.
- Data Science.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Economics.
- Education, General.
- Education, Other.
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
- Engineering Mechanics.
- Engineering Physics.
- Engineering, General.
- Engineering, Other.
- Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Food Science and Technology.
- Geography and Cartography.
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
- Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- History.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Industrial Engineering.
- Information Science/Studies.
- International/Globalization Studies.
- Journalism.
- Landscape Architecture.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
- Management Information Systems and Services.
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
- Marketing.
- Materials Engineering.
- Mathematics and Computer Science.
- Mathematics.
- Mechanical Engineering.
- Music.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Neurobiology and Neurosciences.
- Nuclear Engineering.
- Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Plant Sciences.
- Political Science and Government.
- Public Health.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Religion/Religious Studies.
- Research and Experimental Psychology.
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Social Work.
- Sociology.
- Special Education and Teaching.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Statistics.
- Sustainability Studies.
- Systems Engineering.
- Systems Science and Theory.
- 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. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign lists 26, 9 players above that average. Among the 13 NCAA DI programmes in Illinois, 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 | 262025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 87-1002025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($74,117/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 97). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| 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% |
| Degrees | 102 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Agricultural Public Services. | 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 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.