Swimming & Diving at the Top Colleges
Swimming & Diving is among the most popular of the NCAA sports at the highly selective colleges for both men and women. Overall, 52 of the 61 highly selective colleges have men’s swimming & diving teams and 59 of the 61 highly selective colleges that have women’s swimming & diving teams, with a total of 3,356 swimmers across all the colleges.
Of the 52 colleges with men’s swimming & diving teams, 24 of them belong in Division 1 with 748 swimmers and 28 of them belong in Division 3 with 852 swimmers, totaling 1,600 swimmers together in the 2021/2022 season.
Of the 58 colleges with women’s swimming & diving teams, 30 of them belong in Division 1 with 876 swimmers and 29 of them belong in Division 3 with 880 swimmers, totaling 1,756 swimmers together in the 2021/2022 season.
Men’s Swimming and Diving NCAA Rules and Calendar for Athlete Recruitment
Women’s Swimming and Diving NCAA Rules and Calendar for Athlete Recruitment
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Athlete Recruitment to a Top NCAA Division 3 College
List of Highly Selective Colleges with Swimming and Diving Teams
Below is a list of the top colleges with swimming & diving teams and the NCAA Division they belong in.
All data is compiled directly from the colleges’ athletic websites
| Swimming & Diving at Highly Selective Colleges | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's | Women's | ||
| Division | Swimming | Swimming | |
| 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 |
| John Hopkins University | III | Yes | Yes |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | III | Yes | Yes |
| Middleburry College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Northeastern University | I | No | 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 | No | Yes |
| Stanford University | I | Yes | Yes |
| Swarthmore College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Tufts University | III | Yes | Yes |
| Tulane University | I | No | Yes |
| University of California Berkeley | I | Yes | Yes |
| University of California Los Angeles | I | No | 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 | No | Yes |
| Vassar College | III | Yes | Yes |
| Villanova 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 Swimmers | 1,600 | 1,756 |
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