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Women’s basketball · NCAA Division II · Independent

University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras

San Juan, Puerto Rico · Public institution · 7,581 students

Listed squad
16
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Recorded
figure available with a free account
Published cost
Not recorded
no cost snapshot held
Selectivity
Recorded
available with a free account

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras reported 16 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 Independent. It is one of 3 NCAA DII women's basketball programmes in Puerto Rico, out of 13 programmes there in total.

The athletics department’s own site is where the current roster and coaching staff are published.

Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are permitted

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 Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 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.

Athlavia holds the reported figure

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.

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It is one of 12 institutions in Puerto Rico whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 13 that field women’s basketball at all.

What it costs and what it is like

No cost snapshot is held for University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. 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
7,581
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
San Juan
State or region
Puerto Rico
Country
United States
Campus setting
city
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.
  • Anthropology.
  • Biology, General.
  • Biology, General.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Business/Managerial Economics.
  • Chemistry.
  • Computer Engineering.
  • Computer Science.
  • Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • Economics.
  • Education, Other.
  • Education, Other.
  • Educational Administration and Supervision.
  • Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • English Language and Literature/Letters, Other.
  • Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
  • Environmental Design.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.
  • Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, Other.
  • Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
  • Finance and Financial Management Services.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
  • Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
  • Geography and Cartography.
  • History.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Human Resources Management and Services.
  • Human Resources Management and Services.
  • Journalism.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Management Information Systems and Services.
  • Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
  • Marketing.
  • Mathematics.
  • Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Natural Sciences.
  • Natural Sciences.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physical Sciences, General.
  • Physics.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
  • Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Social Sciences, General.
  • 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.

How it compares

Across the 293 NCAA DII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras lists 16, almost exactly the divisional average. Among the 3 NCAA DII programmes in Puerto Rico, 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

FieldValueSourceRetrievedConfidence
Squad size162025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand0-172025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($1,251/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 7). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees65 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Environmental Design., Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only12 Aug 202690%
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 read verbatim12 Aug 202692%

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