58 US Colleges sponsor varsity Rugby teams:
| # of teams | Total Athletes | Average team size | Scholarship limit | Average Scholarship | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Schools | Men's | Women's | Men | Women | Men's | Women's | Men | Women | Men | Women | ||||||
| NCAA I |  | 13 | 5 | 11 | | 275 | 386 |  | 55 | 35 | | 12 | | 10,864 | |
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| NCAA II | 18 | 9 | 15 | 315 | 490 | 35 | 33 | 12 | 9,085 | ||||||||
| NCAA III | 14 | 8 | 11 | 214 | 235 | 27 | 21 | ||||||||||
| NAIA | 9 | 9 | 4 | 302 | 116 | 34 | 29 | ||||||||||
| Other | 4 | 4 | 2 | 146 | 30 | 37 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 58 | 35 | 43 | 1,252 | 1,257 | 36 | 29 | ||||||||||
Rugby is an NCAA Division I and II emerging sport for women and is an equivalency sport which means athletic scholarships can be split into partial awards in any proportion up to the maximum allowed. For example an NCAA I school can award 24 women each a 1/2 athletic scholarship and still comply with the team limit of 12. See our page on scholarship limits for more information. Rugby is not an NCAA sport for men and varsity level men’s teams compete primarily against club programs and generally do not award athletic based scholarships.
* Average Athletic Scholarship is the average annual amount of athletically related student aid per athlete for ALL varsity sports sponsored by the specific school. Some athletes receive full awards, some receive partial and many receive none. Additionally some sports within a school may be fully funded, some partially and some sports provide no athletic scholarships.
US Colleges & Universities sponsoring varsity Rugby teams:
Hover over individual states on the map below to see how many schools sponsor varsity rugby programs. The table following the map has information on each sponsoring schools and links to all 58 team sites.
Schools sponsoring varsity Rugby teams 2024-25
| US Colleges with varsity Rugby teams 2024-25 | City / Campus | State | Division | Teams | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| California Maritime Academy | Vallejo | CA | NAIA | M | |||
| MiraCosta College | Oceanside | CA | CCCAA | M | W | ||
| University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley | CA | NCAA I | M | |||
| Quinnipiac University | Hamden | CT | NCAA I | W | |||
| Sacred Heart University | Fairfield | CT | NCAA I | W | |||
| University of New Haven | West Haven | CT | NCAA II | W | |||
| Ave Maria University | Ave Maria | FL | NAIA | M | |||
| St Thomas University | Miami Gardens | FL | NAIA | M | W | ||
| Life University | Marietta | GA | NAIA | M | W | ||
| Iowa Central CC | Fort Dodge | IA | NJCAA | M | |||
| McKendree University | Lebanon | IL | NCAA II | M | W | ||
| Principia College | Elsah | IL | NCAA III | M | |||
| Bethel College | Mishawaka | IN | NAIA | M | |||
| Marian University | Indianapolis | IN | NAIA | M | |||
| Thomas More University | Crestview Hills | KY | NCAA II | M | |||
| American International College | Springfield | MA | NCAA II | W | |||
| Harvard University | Cambridge | MA | NCAA I | W | |||
| Frostburg State University | Frostburg | MD | NCAA II | M | W | ||
| Mount St Mary's University | Emmitsburg | MD | NCAA I | W | |||
| U.S. Naval Academy | Annapolis | MD | NCAA I | M | W | ||
| Bowdoin College | Brunswick | ME | NCAA III | W | |||
| University of New England | Biddeford | ME | NCAA III | W | |||
| Adrian College | Adrian | MI | NCAA III | M | W | ||
| Aquinas College | Grand Rapids | MI | NAIA | M | W | ||
| Davenport University | Grand Rapids | MI | NCAA II | W | |||
| University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy | Saint Louis | MO | NAIA | M | |||
| Belmont Abbey College | Belmont | NC | NCAA II | M | |||
| Guilford College | Greensboro | NC | NCAA III | W | |||
| Queens University of Charlotte | Charlotte | NC | NCAA II | W | |||
| Colby-Sawyer College | New London | NH | NCAA III | W | |||
| Dartmouth College | Hanover | NH | NCAA I | W | |||
| New England College | Henniker | NH | NCAA III | M | W | ||
| Princeton University | Princeton | NJ | NCAA I | W | |||
| Long Island University | Brooklyn | NY | NCAA I | W | |||
| Manhattanville College | Purchase | NY | NCAA III | W | |||
| Paul Smith's College | Paul Smiths | NY | USCAA | M | W | ||
| Siena College | Loudonville | NY | NCAA I | M | W | ||
| St Bonaventure University | Saint Bonaventure | NY | NCAA I | M | |||
| U.S. Military Academy | West Point | NY | NCAA I | M | W | ||
| Vassar College | Poughkeepsie | NY | NCAA III | M | W | ||
| Franciscan University of Steubenville | Steubenville | OH | NCAA III | M | |||
| Tiffin University | Tiffin | OH | NCAA II | W | |||
| University of Rio Grande | Rio Grande | OH | NAIA | M | W | ||
| Southern Nazarene University | Bethany | OK | NCAA II | M | W | ||
| Marywood University | Scranton | PA | NCAA III | M | W | ||
| West Chester University | West Chester | PA | NCAA II | W | |||
| Brown University | Providence | RI | NCAA I | W | |||
| Lander University | Greenwood | SC | NCAA II | W | |||
| Newberry College | Newberry | SC | NCAA II | W | |||
| Christendom College | Front Royal | VA | USCAA | M | |||
| Emory & Henry College (2023-24) | Emory | VA | NCAA II | W | |||
| Southern Virginia University | Buena Vista | VA | NCAA III | M | |||
| Castleton University | Castleton | VT | NCAA III | W | |||
| Norwich University | Northfield | VT | NCAA III | M | W | ||
| Central Washington University | Ellensburg | WA | NCAA II | M | W | ||
| Alderson Broaddus University | Philippi | WV | NCAA II | M | W | ||
| Wheeling University | Wheeling | WV | NCAA II | M |
