Yale University is an Ivy League university with an undergraduate enrollment of 6,536 students, plays a total of 32 NCAA sports, 15 of them for men and 17 of them for women. In the 2021/2022 season, Yale University had a total of 917 NCAA athletes comprising 14% of the total student body.

Yale 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 Yale on merits unrelated to sports.

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

All data compiled from Yale University athletic website.