Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Worcester State University reported 11 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 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference. It is one of 34 NCAA DIII women's basketball programmes in Massachusetts, out of 55 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 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
- 3,375
- Selectivity
- Held — free account
- City
- Worcester
- State or region
- Massachusetts
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- 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.
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Biology, General.
- Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology.
- Biotechnology.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Chemistry.
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Economics.
- Education, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Geography and Cartography.
- Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- History.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mathematics.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Physical Sciences, General.
- Political Science and Government.
- Psychology, General.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Sociology.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Urban Studies/Affairs.
- Visual and Performing Arts, General.
How it compares
Across the 399 NCAA DIII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 16 players. Worcester State University lists 11, 5 players below that average. Among the 34 NCAA DIII programmes in Massachusetts, it has the 32nd 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 | 112025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 71-912025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($13,262/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 81). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 33 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Communication and Media Studies., Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians. | 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.