List of NAIA institutions
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has 250 member colleges and universities for athletic competition in the 2022–23 season.[1]
NAIA institutions[edit]
- Note: Non-basketball playing institutions are denoted by *.
- ^ a b UBC and Victoria hold concurrent membership in Canada's governing body for university athletics, U Sports, where their basketball teams compete.
- ^ Cardinal Stritch will close after the 2022–23 school year.
- ^ Carlow started a transition to NCAA Division III in July 2022, joining the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. However, it remains an NAIA member in the 2022–23 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2023.
- ^ Iowa Wesleyan will close after the 2022–23 school year.
- ^ a b c Jessup, Menlo, and Vanguard will start a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2023, joining the Pacific West Conference, pending NCAA approval. However, they remain NAIA members in the 2023–24 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2024.
- ^ Lyon started a transition also to NCAA Division III in July 2022. However, it remains an NAIA member in the 2022–23 school year before joining the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and starting full NCAA competition in 2023.
- ^ Middle Georgia has intended to start a transition to NCAA Division II no later than July 2025, joining the Peach Belt Conference. However, it may remain an NAIA member by the 2025–26 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2026.
- ^ Ohio Christian will start the transition to NCCAA Division I starting in the 2024–25 school year.
- ^ Presentation will close after the 2022–23 school year.
- ^ Roosevelt will start a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2023, joining the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, pending NCAA approval.[4]
- ^ San Diego Christian College will suspend their athletic program for at least one year (2023-24 academic year). They plan to reinstate it in 2024–25 academic year.
- ^ South Carolina–Beaufort has planned to add basketball as a condition to gain NCAA membership and intended to begin its first season for that sport in 2023.
- ^ South Carolina–Beaufort started a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2022, joining the Peach Belt Conference. However, it remains an NAIA member in the 2022–23 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2023.
- ^ Talladega will start a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2023, joining the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, pending NCAA approval. However, it will remain an NAIA member in the 2023–24 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2024.
- ^ Texas A&M–San Antonio has planned to add basketball in an unspecified year.
- ^ Thomas More started a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2022, joining the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. However, it remains an NAIA member in the 2022–23 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2023.
- ^ Trinity International will close its residential campus at the end of the 2022–23 school year and move its undergraduate program online.
- ^ The women's basketball team uses the nickname Flying Queens.
- ^ Westmont started a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2022. However, it remains an NAIA member in the 2022–23 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2023.
Future institutions[edit]
| School | Nickname | City | State/ province |
Conference | Joins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| College of the Ozarks | Bobcats | Point Lookout | Missouri | TBD | 2023–24 |
See also[edit]
- List of NCAA Division I institutions
- List of NCAA Division II institutions
- List of NCAA Division III institutions
- List of USCAA institutions
- List of NCCAA institutions
- List of NJCAA Division I schools
- List of NJCAA Division II schools
- List of NJCAA Division III schools
- List of NAIA football programs
- NAIA lacrosse
References[edit]
- ^ "2022-23 NAIA Member Institutions" (PDF). naia.org. NAIA.
- ^ "[Member institutions]". Continental Athletic Conference. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
- ^ Sarah Dettmer (July 13, 2017). "So long, University of Great Falls; Welcome, University of Providence". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
- ^ Roosevelt University approved as provisional member of the GLIAC - GLIAC
- ^ "Members". Gulf Coast Athletic Conference. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
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