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
Men's Women's
DivisionVolleyballVolleyball
Amherst CollegeIIINoYes
Babson CollegeIIINoYes
Barnard College (comb w/ Columbia University)I No Yes
Bates CollegeIII No Yes
Boston CollegeI No Yes
Boston UniversityI No No
Bowdoin CollegeIII No Yes
Brown UniversityI No Yes
California Institute of Technology III No Yes
Carleton CollegeIII 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 CollegeIII No Yes
Columbia University (incl Barnard College)I No Yes
Cornell UniversityI No Yes
Dartmouth CollegeI No Yes
Davidson CollegeI No Yes
Duke UniversityI No Yes
Emory UniversityIII No Yes
Georgetown University I No Yes
Georgia Institute of TechnologyI No Yes
Grinnell College III No Yes
Hamilton CollegeIII No Yes
Harvard UniversityIYesYes
Harvey Mudd College (comb w/Claremont McKenna)IIINoYes
Haverford CollegeIIINoYes
John Hopkins University IIINoYes
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIIIYesYes
Middleburry CollegeIIINoYes
Northeastern UniversityINoYes
Northwestern University INoYes
New York UniversityIIIYesYes
Pitzer College IIINoYes
Pomona College IIINoYes
Princeton University IYesYes
Rice University INoYes
Stanford University IYesYes
Swarthmore College IIINoYes
Tufts University IIINoYes
Tulane University INoYes
University of California BerkeleyINoYes
University of California Los AngelesIYesYes
University of Michigan INoYes
University of Chicago IIINoYes
University of North Carolina - Chapel HillI NoYes
University of Notre Dame INoYes
University of Pennsylvania INoYes
University of Southern California IYesYes
University of Virginia INoYes
Vanderbilt University INoNo
Vassar College IIIYesYes
Villanova UniversityINoYes
Wake Forest UniversityINoYes
Washington and Lee University IIINoYes
Washington University in St. LouisIIINoYes
Wellesley College IIINoYes
Wesleyan UniversityIIINoYes
Williams CollegeIIINoYes
Yale University INoYes
Total Players156917

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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