Baseball at the Top Colleges

Baseball is a highly popular Spring NCAA college sport played by 55 of the 61 highly selective colleges with a total of 1,947 athletes participating in the sport. Baseball players at these 55 highly selective colleges represent 9% of all male NCAA athletes from the 61 highly selective colleges.

From the 55 highly selective colleges that play baseball, 1033 of the baseball athletes play at 28 of the highly selective colleges in Division 1, while the remaining 914 baseball athletes play at the 27 highly selective colleges in Division 3.

Baseball NCAA Rules and Calendar for Athlete Recruitment

How do top colleges in Division 1 select their athlete recruits?

Athlete Recruitment to a Top NCAA Division 3 College

List of Highly Selective Colleges with Baseball Teams

We list below the 55 highly selective colleges that play baseball, and the NCAA division they belong in.

All data is compiled from colleges’ athletic websites

Baseball at Highly Selective Colleges
		Men's
	Division	Baseball
Amherst College	III	Yes
Babson College	III	Yes
Bates College	III	Yes
Boston College	I	Yes
Bowdoin College	III	Yes
Brown University	I	Yes
California Institute of Technology	III	Yes
Carleton College	III	Yes
Claremont McKenna College (incl Harvey Mudd)	III	Yes
Colby College	III	Yes
Columbia University (incl Barnard College)	I	Yes
Cornell University	I	Yes
Dartmouth College	I	Yes
Davidson College	I	Yes
Duke University	I	Yes
Emory University	III	Yes
Georgetown University	I	Yes
Georgia Institute of Technology	I	Yes
Grinnell College	III	Yes
Hamilton College	III	Yes
Harvard University	I	Yes
Harvey Mudd College (comb w/ Claremont McKenna)	III	Yes
Haverford College	III	Yes
John Hopkins University	III	Yes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	III	Yes
Middleburry College	III	Yes
Northeastern University	I	Yes
Northwestern University	I	Yes
New York University	III	Yes
Pitzer College	III	Yes
Pomona College (incl Pitzer College)	III	Yes
Princeton University	I	Yes
Rice University	I	Yes
Stanford University	I	Yes
Swarthmore College	III	Yes
Tufts University	III	Yes
Tulane University	I	Yes
University of California Berkeley	I	Yes
University of California Los Angeles	I	Yes
University of Michigan	I	Yes
University of Chicago	III	Yes
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	I	Yes
University of Notre Dame	I	Yes
University of Pennsylvania	I	Yes
University of Southern California	I	Yes
University of Virginia	I	Yes
Vanderbilt University	I	Yes
Vassar College	III	Yes
Villanova University	I	Yes
Wake Forest University	I	Yes
Washington and Lee University	III	Yes
Washington University in St. Louis	III	Yes
Wesleyan University	III	Yes
Williams College	III	Yes
Yale University	I	Yes
Total Players		1,947

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