Tennis at the Top Colleges
Tennis is one of the most popular NCAA sports played at the highly selective colleges for both men and women. Overall, 58 of the 61 highly selective colleges have men’s tennis teams and 60 of the 61 highly selective colleges have women’s tennis teams, with a total of 1,360 players across all the colleges.
Of the 58 colleges with men’s tennis teams, 29 of them belong in Division 1 with 329 players and 29 of them belong in Division 3 with 389 players, totaling 718 players together in the 2021/2022 season.
Of the 60 colleges with women’s tennis teams, 30 of them belong in Division 1 with 304 players and 30 of them belong in Division 3 with 338 players totaling 642 players together in the 2021/2022 season.
Tennis 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 that Play Tennis
Below is a list of the top colleges that play tennis and the NCAA Division they belong in.
All data is compiled directly from the colleges’ athletic websites
| Tennis at Highly Selective Colleges | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's | Women's | ||
| Division | Tennis | Tennis | |
| Amherst College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Babson College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Barnard College (comb w/ Columbia University) | I | No | Yes |
| Bates College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Boston College | I | Yes | Yes |
| Boston University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Bowdoin College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Brown University | I | Yes | Yes |
| California Institute of Technology | III | Yes | Yes |
| Carleton College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Carnegie Mellon University | III | Yes | Yes |
| Claremont McKenna College (incl Harvey Mudd) | III | Yes | Yes |
| Colby College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Colgate University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Colorado College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Columbia University (incl Barnard College) | I | Yes | Yes |
| Cornell University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Dartmouth College | I | Yes | Yes |
| Davidson College | I | Yes | Yes |
| Duke University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Emory University | III | Yes | Yes |
| Georgetown University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | I | Yes | Yes |
| Grinnell College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Hamilton College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Harvard University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Harvey Mudd College (comb w/Claremont McKenna) | III | Yes | Yes |
| Haverford College | III | Yes | Yes |
| John Hopkins University | III | Yes | Yes |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | III | Yes | Yes |
| Middleburry College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Northwestern University | I | Yes | Yes |
| New York University | III | Yes | Yes |
| Pitzer College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Pomona College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Princeton University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Rice University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Stanford University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Swarthmore College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Tufts University | III | Yes | Yes |
| Tulane University | I | Yes | Yes |
| University of California Berkeley | I | Yes | Yes |
| University of California Los Angeles | I | Yes | Yes |
| University of Michigan | I | Yes | Yes |
| University of Chicago | III | Yes | Yes |
| University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | I | Yes | Yes |
| University of Notre Dame | I | Yes | Yes |
| University of Pennsylvania | I | Yes | Yes |
| University of Southern California | I | Yes | Yes |
| University of Virginia | I | Yes | Yes |
| Vanderbilt University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Vassar College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Villanova University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Wake Forest University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Washington and Lee University | III | Yes | Yes |
| Washington University in St. Louis | III | Yes | Yes |
| Wellesley College | III | No | Yes |
| Wesleyan University | III | Yes | Yes |
| Williams College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Yale University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Total Players | 718 | 642 |
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