Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. William Paterson University of New Jersey reported 18 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 III and in the New Jersey Athletic Conference. It is one of 15 NCAA DIII women's basketball programmes in New Jersey, out of 42 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 III does not permit athletically-related student aid of any kind. A Division III programme can still be an excellent destination, but no basketball scholarship exists at one — the money there is academic and need-based aid.
Money is still available here: academic awards, need-based grants and institutional bursaries. What does not exist is an award made because of basketball. A recruiter offering one at a NCAA DIII institution is describing something the rules do not allow.
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
- 5,236
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Wayne
- State or region
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- suburban
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 3%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Anthropology.
- Area Studies.
- Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
- Biology, General.
- Biotechnology.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Chemistry.
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Community Organization and Advocacy.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Economics.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
- Geography and Cartography.
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
- History.
- International Business.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
- Marketing.
- Mathematics.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
- Music.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Non-Professional Legal Studies.
- Philosophy.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Sociology.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
- Urban Studies/Affairs.
How it compares
Across the 399 NCAA DIII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 16 players. William Paterson University of New Jersey lists 18, 2 players above that average. Among the 15 NCAA DIII programmes in New Jersey, it has the 2nd 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 | 182025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 11-312025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,269/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 21). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 45 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Area Studies., Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies. | 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.