Boston College is a private research university with an undergraduate enrollment of 15,409 students, plays a total of 35 NCAA sports, 16 of them for men with 317 athletes and 19 of them for women with 387 athletes . In the 2021/2022 season, Boston College had a total of 704 NCAA athletes comprising about 5% of the total student body.

Boston College is likely to have recruited many of the athletes on its NCAA sports teams through the Division 1 athlete recruitment process, enabling these recruited athletes to leapfrog the normal admissions process. It is our best estimate based on team profiles that about 50% to 75% of their teams comprise of recruited athletes while the remaining athletes are “walk-on” athletes who were admitted to Boston College on merits unrelated to sports.

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The table below lists the NCAA and varsity sports played at Boston College and the number of athletes in each sports team.

All data compiled from Boston College athletic website.