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 |