Field Hockey at the Top Colleges

Women’s field hockey is an NCAA college sport played by 41 of the 61 highly selective colleges with a total of 973 athletes participating in the sport. Field hockey players at these 41 highly selective colleges represent 6% of all female NCAA athletes from the 61 highly selective colleges.

From the 41 highly selective colleges that play field hockey, 540 of the field hockey athletes play at 24 of the highly selective colleges in Division 1, while the remaining 433 field hockey athletes play at the 17 highly selective colleges in Division 3.

Field Hockey 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 Field Hockey Teams

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

All data is compiled directly from the colleges’ athletic websites

Women's Field Hockey 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
Colby College	III
Colgate University	I
Columbia University (incl Barnard College)	I
Cornell University	I
Dartmouth College	I
Davidson College	I
Duke University	I
Georgetown University	I
Hamilton College	III
Harvard University	I
Haverford College	III
John Hopkins University	III
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	III
Middleburry College	III
Northeastern University	I
Northwestern University	I
Princeton University	I
Stanford University	I
Swarthmore College	III
Tufts University	III
University of California Berkeley	I
University of Michigan	I
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	I
University of Pennsylvania	I
University of Virginia	I
Vassar College	III
Villanova University	I
Wake Forest University	I
Washington and Lee University	III
Wellesley College	III
Wesleyan University	III
Williams College	III
Yale University	I
Total Players	973

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