The top colleges in NCAA Division 3

There are 30 highly selective colleges in NCAA Division 3 out of a total of 438 colleges in Division 3. 21 of them are elite liberals arts colleges, while the remaining 9 colleges include Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, New York University, Emory University, Washington University in St Louis, Carnegie Mellon University, Tufts University and University of Chicago.

These colleges play a wide variety of NCAA sports, and together have a total of 17,440 athletes with 9,807 men forming 56% of athletes and 7,633 women forming 44% of all athletes at these 30 Division 3 colleges.

Table of Highly Selective Colleges in Division 3

Below is the list of the 30 highly selective colleges in Division 3.

Highly Selective Colleges in NCAA Division 3
COLLEGES	Division
Amherst College	III
Babson College	III
Bates College	III
Bowdoin College	III
California Institute of Technology	III
Carleton College	III
Carnegie Mellon University	III
Claremont McKenna College	III
Colby College	III
Colorado College	III
Emory University	III
Grinnell College	III
Hamilton College	III
Harvey Mudd College	III
Haverford College	III
John Hopkins University	III
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	III
Middlebury College	III
New York University	III
Pitzer College	III
Pomona College	III
Swathmore College	III
Tufts University	III
University of Chicago	III
Vassar College	III
Washington and Lee University	III
Washington University in St. Louis	III
Wellesley College	III
Wesleyan University	III
Williams College	III

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