Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. William Rainey Harper College reported 12 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 NJCAA (junior college), and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 41 NJCAA women's basketball programmes in Illinois, out of 89 programmes there in total.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
NJCAA Divisions I and II permit athletically-related student aid; Division III does not. The federal return records the association but not the division, so this page does not state which applies here.
NJCAA rules allow athletic aid, but no figure has been recorded for this institution. That is an absence of evidence rather than evidence of absence: ask the coaching staff directly what is available for basketball.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for William Rainey Harper College. 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
- 3,919
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Palatine
- State or region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- suburban
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 2%
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.
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
- Apparel and Textiles.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Computer Programming.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Engineering, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Fire Protection.
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Technology/Technician (HAC, HACR, HVAC, HVACR).
- Homeland Security.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Human Resources Management and Services.
- Human Services, General.
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
- Information Science/Studies.
- Legal Support Services.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Music.
- Precision Metal Working.
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Security Science and Technology.
- Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
- Teaching Assistants/Aides.
How it compares
Across the 346 NJCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. William Rainey Harper College lists 12, almost exactly the divisional average. Among the 41 NJCAA programmes in Illinois, it has the 20th 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 | 122025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 1-212025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($1,676/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 11). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 39 undergraduate degrees listed, including Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication., Computer Programming., Information Science/Studies. | 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 school.locale, location.lat, location.lon, latest.student.demographics.race_ethnicity.non_resident_alien, school.school_url 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.