List of NAIA institutions
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has 241 member colleges and universities for athletic competition in the 2023–24 season.[1]
NAIA institutions
- Note: Non-basketball playing institutions are denoted by *.
- UBC and Victoria hold concurrent membership in Canada's governing body for university athletics, U Sports, where their basketball teams compete.
- 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 has intended to 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.
- Roosevelt started a transition to NCAA Division II in July 2023, joining the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.[4] 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 has planned to add basketball in an unspecified 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 | NJCAA | Southern States Athletic Conference | July 2024[6] |
| Baptist Bible College | Patriots | Springfield | Missouri | NCCAA | American Midwest Conference | |
| Defiance College | Yellow Jackets and Lady Jackets | Defiance | Ohio | Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (NCAA Division III) | Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference | |
| New College of Florida | Mighty Banyans | Sarasota | Florida | New program | The Sun Conference | |
| Spartanburg Methodist College | Pioneers | Saxon | South Carolina | NJCAA | Continental Athletic 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.
- "[Member institutions]". Continental Athletic Conference. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
- Sarah Dettmer (July 13, 2017). "So long, University of Great Falls; Welcome, University of Providence". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
- 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.
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