Soccer at the Top Colleges

Soccer is one of the most popular NCAA sports played by both men and women’s teams at the highly selective colleges. Overall, 53 of the 61 highly selective colleges have men’s soccer teams and 58 of the 61 highly selective colleges have women’s soccer teams with a total of 3,214 soccer players across both genders.

Of the 53 colleges with men’s soccer teams, 26 of them belong in Division 1 with 712 players and 27 of them belong in Division 3 with 862 players, totaling 1,574 players together in the 2021/2022 season.

Of the 58 colleges with women’s soccer teams, 29 of them belong in Division 1 with 794 players and 29 of them belong in Division 3 with 846 players, totaling 1,640 players together in the 2021/2022 season.

Men’s Soccer NCAA Rules and Calendar for Athlete Recruitment

Women’s Soccer 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 Soccer Teams

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

All data is compiled directly from the colleges’ athletic websites

Soccer at Highly Selective Colleges
Men's Women's
DivisionSoccerSoccer
Amherst CollegeIIIYesYes
Babson CollegeIIIYesYes
Barnard College (comb w/ Columbia University)I No Yes
Bates CollegeIIIYesYes
Boston CollegeIYesYes
Boston UniversityIYesYes
Bowdoin CollegeIIIYesYes
Brown UniversityIYesYes
California Institute of Technology IIIYesYes
Carleton CollegeIIIYesYes
Carnegie Mellon University IIIYesYes
Claremont McKenna College (incl Harvey Mudd)IIIYesYes
Colby College IIIYesYes
Colgate University IYesYes
Colorado CollegeIIIYesYes
Columbia University (incl Barnard College)IYesYes
Cornell UniversityIYesYes
Dartmouth CollegeIYesYes
Davidson CollegeIYesYes
Duke UniversityIYesYes
Emory UniversityIIIYesYes
Georgetown University IYesYes
Grinnell College IIIYesYes
Hamilton CollegeIYesYes
Harvard UniversityIIIYesYes
Harvey Mudd College (comb w/Claremont McKenna)IIIYesYes
Haverford CollegeIIIYesYes
John Hopkins University IIIYesYes
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIIIYesYes
Middleburry CollegeIYesYes
Northeastern UniversityIYesYes
Northwestern University IIIYesYes
New York UniversityIIIYesYes
Pitzer College IIIYesYes
Pomona College IYesYes
Princeton University IYesYes
Rice University INoYes
Stanford University IIIYesYes
Swarthmore College IIIYesYes
Tufts University IYesYes
University of California BerkeleyIYesYes
University of California Los AngelesIYesYes
University of Michigan IIIYesYes
University of Chicago I YesYes
University of North Carolina - Chapel HillIYesYes
University of Notre Dame IYesYes
University of Pennsylvania IYesYes
University of Southern California INoYes
University of Virginia IYesYes
Vanderbilt University IIINoYes
Vassar College IIIYesYes
Villanova UniversityIYesYes
Wake Forest UniversityIYesYes
Washington and Lee University IIIYesYes
Washington University in St. LouisIIIYesYes
Wellesley College IIINoYes
Wesleyan UniversityIIIYesYes
Williams CollegeIYesYes
Yale University IYesYes
Total1,5741,640

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Alex Irvine

Alex Irvine is a Product Development Associate and author for X Factor Admissions. He is a current UCLA junior who is majoring in history and has extensive personal experience in the college admissions process.

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