Volleyball at the Top Colleges
Volleyball is a popular sport for women among the highly selective colleges. Overall, 8 of the 61 highly selective colleges have men’s volleyball teams and 59 of the 61 highly selective colleges have women’s volleyball teams, with a total of 1,073 players across all the colleges.
Of the 8 colleges with men’s volleyball teams, 5 of them belong in Division 1 with 96 players and 3 of them belong in Division 3 with 60 players, totaling 156 players together in the 2021/2022 season.
Of the 59 colleges with women’s volleyball teams, 29 of them belong in Division 1 with 439 players and 30 of them belong in Division 3 with 478 players, totaling 917 players together in the 2021/2022 season.
Volleyball 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 Volleyball Teams
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
Volleyball at Highly Selective Colleges | |||
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Men's | Women's | ||
Division | Volleyball | Volleyball | |
Amherst College | III | No | Yes |
Babson College | III | No | Yes |
Barnard College (comb w/ Columbia University) | I | No | Yes |
Bates College | III | No | Yes |
Boston College | I | No | Yes |
Boston University | I | No | No |
Bowdoin College | III | No | Yes |
Brown University | I | No | Yes |
California Institute of Technology | III | No | Yes |
Carleton College | III | No | Yes |
Carnegie Mellon University | III | No | Yes |
Claremont McKenna College (incl Harvey Mudd) | III | No | Yes |
Colby College | III | No | Yes |
Colgate University | I | No | Yes |
Colorado College | III | No | Yes |
Columbia University (incl Barnard College) | I | No | Yes |
Cornell University | I | No | Yes |
Dartmouth College | I | No | Yes |
Davidson College | I | No | Yes |
Duke University | I | No | Yes |
Emory University | III | No | Yes |
Georgetown University | I | No | Yes |
Georgia Institute of Technology | I | No | Yes |
Grinnell College | III | No | Yes |
Hamilton College | III | No | Yes |
Harvard University | I | Yes | Yes |
Harvey Mudd College (comb w/Claremont McKenna) | III | No | Yes |
Haverford College | III | No | Yes |
John Hopkins University | III | No | Yes |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | III | Yes | Yes |
Middleburry College | III | No | Yes |
Northeastern University | I | No | Yes |
Northwestern University | I | No | Yes |
New York University | III | Yes | Yes |
Pitzer College | III | No | Yes |
Pomona College | III | No | Yes |
Princeton University | I | Yes | Yes |
Rice University | I | No | Yes |
Stanford University | I | Yes | Yes |
Swarthmore College | III | No | Yes |
Tufts University | III | No | Yes |
Tulane University | I | No | Yes |
University of California Berkeley | I | No | Yes |
University of California Los Angeles | I | Yes | Yes |
University of Michigan | I | No | Yes |
University of Chicago | III | No | Yes |
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | I | No | Yes |
University of Notre Dame | I | No | Yes |
University of Pennsylvania | I | No | Yes |
University of Southern California | I | Yes | Yes |
University of Virginia | I | No | Yes |
Vanderbilt University | I | No | No |
Vassar College | III | Yes | Yes |
Villanova University | I | No | Yes |
Wake Forest University | I | No | Yes |
Washington and Lee University | III | No | Yes |
Washington University in St. Louis | III | No | Yes |
Wellesley College | III | No | Yes |
Wesleyan University | III | No | Yes |
Williams College | III | No | Yes |
Yale University | I | No | Yes |
Total Players | 156 | 917 |