List of NAIA institutions
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has 239 member colleges and universities for athletic competition in the 2023–24 season.[1]
NAIA institutions
- Note: Non-basketball playing institutions are denoted by *. Members leaving are highlighted in red.
- Women's only institution in undergraduate programs, therefore it does not compete in men's sports.
- UBC and Victoria hold concurrent membership in Canada's governing body for university athletics, U Sports, where their basketball teams compete.
- UC Merced will start a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2024, joining the California Collegiate Athletic Association, pending NCAA approval.[2] However, it will remain an NAIA member in the 2024–25 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2025.
- Concordia–Michigan announced that they'll discontinue their athletic program after the 2024–25 academic year.[3]
- Georgia Gwinnett will add men's and women's basketball in the 2025–26 school year.
- When IUPUC's parent institution of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis splits into two separate institutions at the end of the 2023–24 academic year, administration of the former IUPUC will pass to the new Indiana University Indianapolis. IUPUC will change its name to Indiana University Columbus, with an athletic branding of IU Columbus. The nickname of Crimson Pride will not change.
- IUPUC will add men's and women's basketball in the 2024–25 school year.
- Jamestown will start a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2024, joining Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, pending NCAA approval. However, even if they are approved, they will remain an NAIA member in the 2024–25 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2025.
- Jessup, Menlo, and Vanguard started a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2023, joining the Pacific West Conference. However, they remain NAIA members in the 2023–24 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2024.
- Middle Georgia will start a transition to NCAA Division II no later than July 2025, joining the Peach Belt Conference, before starting full NCAA competition by that time.
- Ohio Christian will start the transition to NCCAA Division I in the 2024–25 school year.
- Point Park will start a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2024, joining the Mountain East Conference, pending NCAA approval.[5]
- Roosevelt started a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2023, joining the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.[6] However, it will remain an NAIA member in the 2023–24 school year before starting full NCAA competition in 2024.
- Texas A&M–San Antonio will add men's and women's basketball in the 2024–25 school year.
- The women's basketball team uses the nickname Flying Queens.
Future institutions
| School | Nickname | City | State/ province |
Current affiliation | Conference | Joins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College | Golden Stallions | Tifton | Georgia | Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (NJCAA) | Southern States Athletic Conference | July 2024[8][9] |
| Bismarck State College | Mystics | Bismarck | North Dakota | Mon-Dak Conference (NJCAA) | TBD[lower-alpha 1] | July 2025[9] |
| Carolina University | Bruins | Winston-Salem | North Carolina | National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) | TBD | July 2024[8][9] |
| Defiance College | Yellow Jackets and Lady Jackets | Defiance | Ohio | Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (NCAA Division III) | Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference | |
| Mission University[10] | Patriots | Springfield | Missouri | National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) | American Midwest Conference | |
| New College of Florida | Mighty Banyans | Sarasota | Florida | New program | The Sun Conference | |
| Spartanburg Methodist College | Pioneers | Saxon | South Carolina | Carolinas Junior College Conference (NJCAA) | Continental Athletic Conference |
- Bismarck State has applied to the Frontier Conference.
See also
- List of NCAA Division I institutions
- List of NCAA Division II institutions
- List of NCAA Division III institutions
- List of USCAA institutions
- List of NCCAA institutions
- List of NJCAA Division I schools
- List of NJCAA Division II schools
- List of NJCAA Division III schools
- List of NAIA football programs
- NAIA lacrosse
References
- "2023-24 NAIA Member Institutions" (PDF). naia.org. NAIA.
- UC Merced set to join CCAA, Transition to NCAA D-II
- Cunningham, Darren (14 June 2024). "Concordia University Ann Arbor discontinuing athletics after 2024-25 academic year". WXYZ. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- "[Member institutions]". Continental Athletic Conference. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
- "Point Park invited to join Mountain East Conference, will pursue athletics in NCAA Division II". January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- Roosevelt University approved as provisional member of the GLIAC - GLIAC
- "Members". Gulf Coast Athletic Conference. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
- "NAIA Announces Five New Members". NAIA. October 2, 2023. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- "NAIA Announces Membership Additions". NAIA. April 8, 2024. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
- "Baptist Bible College is Now Mission University". Baptist Bible Tribune. January 26, 2024. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
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