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.