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Women’s basketball · NCAA Division I · Mid-American Conference

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan · Public institution · 10,971 students

Listed squad
15
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Recorded
figure available with a free account
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. Western Michigan University 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 I and in the Mid-American Conference. It is one of 7 NCAA DI women's basketball programmes in Michigan, out of 59 programmes there in total.

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

Athlavia holds 6 email addresses for this coaching staff

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.

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Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are permitted

NCAA Division I rules permit athletically-related student aid.

Western Michigan University 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 48 institutions in Michigan whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 59 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.

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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
10,971
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
Kalamazoo
State or region
Michigan
Country
United States
Campus setting
city
Climate
Not recorded
International share
4%

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.
  • Air Transportation.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • Anthropology.
  • Apparel and Textiles.
  • Applied Mathematics.
  • Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.
  • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
  • Biology, General.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Business/Managerial Economics.
  • Chemical Engineering.
  • Chemistry.
  • City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning.
  • Civil Engineering.
  • Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology.
  • Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Computer Engineering.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Dance.
  • Data Analytics.
  • Data Science.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
  • Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
  • Economics.
  • Education, Other.
  • Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.
  • Engineering, Other.
  • Engineering-Related Fields.
  • 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.
  • Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
  • Geography and Cartography.
  • Geography and Environmental Studies.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
  • Health and Medical Administrative Services.
  • History.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Human Resources Management and Services.
  • Industrial Engineering.
  • Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
  • International/Globalization Studies.
  • Journalism.
  • Legal Professions and Studies, Other.
  • Management Information Systems and Services.
  • Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
  • Manufacturing Engineering.
  • Marketing.
  • Mathematics and Computer Science.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mechanical Engineering.
  • Medical Illustration and Informatics.
  • Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Paper Science and Engineering.
  • Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.
  • Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physics.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Health.
  • Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
  • Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
  • Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.
  • Religion/Religious Studies.
  • Research and Experimental Psychology.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Social Work.
  • Sociology.
  • Special Education and Teaching.
  • Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • Statistics.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
  • Telecommunications Management.
  • Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.

How it compares

Across the 356 NCAA DI women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. Western Michigan University lists 15, 2 players below that average. Among the 7 NCAA DI programmes in Michigan, it has the 5th 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 size152025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand78-982025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($23,842/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 88). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees99 undergraduate degrees listed, including Food Science and Technology., Natural Resources Conservation and Research., City/Urban, Community, and Regional Planning.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 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. Check it at the source.