Softball at the Top Colleges

Softball is a popular sport for women among the highly selective colleges. Overall, 49 of the 61 highly selective colleges have women’s volleyball teams, with a total of 916 players across all the colleges.

Of the 49 colleges with women’s volleyball teams, 24 of them belong in Division 1 with 497 players and 25 of them belong in Division 3 with 419 players, totaling 916 players together in the 2021/2022 season.

Softball 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 Softball

Below is a list of the top colleges that play volleyball and the NCAA Division they belong in.

All data is compiled directly from the colleges’ athletic websites

Women's Softball at Highly Selective Colleges
	Division
Amherst College	III
Babson College	III
Barnard College (comb w/ Columbia University)	I
Bates College	III
Boston College	I
Boston University	I
Bowdoin College	III
Brown University	I
Carleton College	III
Carnegie Mellon University	III
Claremont McKenna College (incl Harvey Mudd)	III
Colby College	III
Colgate University	I
Columbia University (incl Barnard College)	I
Cornell University	I
Dartmouth College	I
Duke University	I
Emory University	III
Georgetown University	I
Georgia Institute of Technology	I
Grinnell College	III
Hamilton College	III
Harvard University	I
Harvey Mudd College (comb w/Claremont McKenna)	III
Haverford College	III
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	III
Middleburry College	III
Northwestern University	I
New York University	III
Pitzer College	III
Pomona College	III
Princeton University	I
Stanford University	I
Swarthmore College	III
Tufts University	III
University of California Berkeley	I
University of California Los Angeles	I
University of Michigan	I
University of Chicago	III
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	I
University of Notre Dame	I
University of Pennsylvania	I
University of Virginia	I
Villanova University	I
Washington University in St. Louis	III
Wellesley College	III
Wesleyan University	III
Williams College	III
Yale University	I
Total Players	916

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