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 | ||
| 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 |