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 |