NCAA Division III Athletic Budgets

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<p>The top 100 (out of 391 schools) athletic budgets for NCAA Division III sports in 2004-05:</p>

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$5,813,137    CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY
$5,697,753  WILLIAMS COLLEGE
$5,265,072  ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
$4,028,115  MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
$3,887,321  UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE
$3,710,506  ITHACA COLLEGE
$3,710,200  BOWDOIN COLLEGE
$3,549,230  UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
$3,497,876  UNION COLLEGE
$3,467,450  RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
$3,368,376  NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
$3,243,134  LORAS COLLEGE
$3,238,904  HOBART WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
$3,150,992  BATES COLLEGE
$3,079,274  WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
$3,004,696  AMHERST COLLEGE
$2,971,935  COLORADO COLLEGE
$2,921,818  WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY
$2,893,037  TRINITY COLLEGE
$2,815,984  EMORY UNIVERSITY
$2,814,498  DENISON UNIVERSITY
$2,735,173  MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
$2,713,658  LINFIELD COLLEGE
$2,708,579  GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE
$2,672,545  UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
$2,620,233  KEAN UNIVERSITY
$2,548,808  HARTWICK COLLEGE
$2,539,027  SUNY COLLEGE AT CORTLAND
$2,521,070  MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
$2,444,401  CARTHAGE COLLEGE
$2,397,536  TUFTS UNIVERSITY
$2,358,761  WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS
$2,345,761  FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
$2,342,225  DEPAUW UNIVERSITY
$2,292,415  SUNY COLLEGE AT OSWEGO
$2,284,407  CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
$2,263,489  UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS
$2,252,481  WHEATON COLLEGE
$2,226,158  OTTERBEIN COLLEGE
$2,213,811  SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
$2,204,159  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT
$2,196,425  SUNY COLLEGE AT BUFFALO
$2,185,140  JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY
$2,181,256  COLBY COLLEGE
$2,170,193  SUNY COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT
$2,127,728  RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
$2,078,042  WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
$2,060,596  UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS
$2,041,876  FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE
$2,032,118  UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR
$2,030,482  WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE
$2,027,530  WHEATON COLLEGE
$2,020,993  SEWANEE: THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH
$2,005,845  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STOUT
$2,001,973  BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
$1,997,707  SUNY COLLEGE AT PLATTSBURGH
$1,990,678  WHITWORTH COLLEGE
$1,952,835  HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
$1,947,574  STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
$1,941,387  MACALESTER COLLEGE
$1,939,425  WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY
$1,924,988  BALDWIN-WALLACE COLLEGE
$1,866,108  WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
$1,856,534  CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE
$1,855,184  HAMILTON COLLEGE
$1,848,926  SAINT JOHN FISHER COLLEGE
$1,842,136  WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
$1,836,941  SAINT OLAF COLLEGE
$1,833,943  BETHEL UNIVERSITY
$1,832,703  MCMURRY UNIVERSITY
$1,823,175  UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY
$1,810,691  CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-EAST BAY
$1,806,933  HAVERFORD COLLEGE
$1,798,414  UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS-DARTMOUTH
$1,794,573  MCDANIEL COLLEGE
$1,778,117  BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
$1,774,166  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS
$1,769,169  SUNY COLLEGE AT GENESEO
$1,755,084  NORWICH UNIVERSITY
$1,753,369  SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
$1,747,714  MARIETTA COLLEGE
$1,744,062  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PLATTEVILLE
$1,742,713  LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE
$1,735,040  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE
$1,732,344  WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE
$1,731,844  TRINITY UNIVERSITY
$1,709,503  THE RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
$1,708,789  SUNY COLLEGE AT ONEONTA
$1,700,966  ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
$1,698,740  MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
$1,697,657  OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
$1,692,811  THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
$1,692,411  SUNY-POTSDAM
$1,691,322  KENYON COLLEGE
$1,668,144  MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE
$1,665,214  SAINT NORBERT COLLEGE
$1,656,889  HOPE COLLEGE
$1,655,208  KEENE STATE COLLEGE
$1,642,788  HUNTINGDON COLLEGE
$1,631,989  OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE

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<p>The top 100 NCAA Division III schools in per student athletic spending (2004-05):</p>

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$2,779    WILLIAMS COLLEGE
$2,311  ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
$2,247  HUNTINGDON COLLEGE
$2,212  BOWDOIN COLLEGE
$1,895  UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY
$1,861  LORAS COLLEGE
$1,832  AMHERST COLLEGE
$1,808  BATES COLLEGE
$1,754  HOBART WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
$1,723  HARTWICK COLLEGE
$1,709  MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
$1,652  CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE
$1,639  LINFIELD COLLEGE
$1,605  WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE
$1,596  UNION COLLEGE
$1,594  BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE
$1,542  HAVERFORD COLLEGE
$1,502  SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
$1,499  WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE
$1,454  COLORADO COLLEGE
$1,448  HANOVER COLLEGE
$1,355  SEWANEE: THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH
$1,344  WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY
$1,327  COLBY-SAWYER COLLEGE
$1,324  MCMURRY UNIVERSITY
$1,318  WHEATON COLLEGE
$1,311  HIRAM COLLEGE
$1,308  CHOWAN COLLEGE
$1,276  UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS
$1,273  DENISON UNIVERSITY
$1,258  CENTRE COLLEGE
$1,254  SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
$1,252  LAGRANGE COLLEGE
$1,242  CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY
$1,226  FINLANDIA UNIVERSITY
$1,210  TRINITY COLLEGE
$1,208  MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY
$1,198  COLBY COLLEGE
$1,184  GREENSBORO COLLEGE
$1,181  MARIETTA COLLEGE
$1,170  CORNELL COLLEGE
$1,161  BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
$1,147  MANCHESTER COLLEGE
$1,147  MARYVILLE COLLEGE
$1,144  ALMA COLLEGE
$1,142  TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
$1,136  HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY
$1,135  TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
$1,134  MITCHELL COLLEGE
$1,125  COE COLLEGE
$1,092  UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE
$1,078  LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
$1,059  DEFIANCE COLLEGE
$1,055  LOUISIANA COLLEGE
$1,051  GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE
$1,049  POMONA COLLEGE
$1,047  ILLINOIS COLLEGE
$1,035  FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE
$1,035  HAMILTON COLLEGE
$1,035  KENYON COLLEGE
$1,022  MACALESTER COLLEGE
$1,007  CENTRAL COLLEGE
$1,006  FRANKLIN COLLEGE
$1,006  BLACKBURN COLLEGE
$1,000  HENDRIX COLLEGE
$998    JUNIATA COLLEGE
$992    BETHANY COLLEGE
$989    WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
$980    DEPAUW UNIVERSITY
$962    EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
$957    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
$953    EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE
$947    RHODES COLLEGE
$946    LAKE FOREST COLLEGE
$942    FERRUM COLLEGE
$941    VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
$927    MILLSAPS COLLEGE
$918    SCHREINER UNIVERSITY
$912    CARTHAGE COLLEGE
$906    EUREKA COLLEGE
$889    EARLHAM COLLEGE
$889    WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY
$885    KALAMAZOO COLLEGE
$878    NORTHLAND COLLEGE
$877    ADRIAN COLLEGE
$875    AUSTIN COLLEGE
$873    OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
$867    THIEL COLLEGE
$865    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
$855    LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE
$845    CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
$841    WILMINGTON COLLEGE
$837    GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
$836    WHITWORTH COLLEGE
$819    BELOIT COLLEGE
$811    URSINUS COLLEGE
$810    ALLEGHENY COLLEGE
$800    ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
$799    CLARKE COLLEGE
$792    SAINT NORBERT COLLEGE

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<p>Very useful list, idad. Those who bristle at the idea of sports being featured, or athletes getting preference, can choose from schools at the bottom of the lists. Sports lovers can quickly see which schools vvalue & support their sports programs & athletes. Everybody is happy. (Right?)</p>

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<p>StickerShock:</p>

<p>A reasonable take -- I like the way you think.</p>

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<p>The numbers are so low anyway. Given $75k in total per student spending, the $1,200 difference in athletic spending between Williams and Swarthmore is hardly worth talking about (it probably is about equivalent to what is spent on gardening supplies for the arboretum.)</p>

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<p>Very nice. I note some of the higher expense programs have a team operating in D-1--several ice hockey, soccer powers. That would skew their spending way up. For example few know that Colorado College has a major D-1 hockey team that plays in a league with Wisconsin and other big schools--and does well.</p>

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<p>SS, I agree and also remember that there are 291 schools lower than the ones on these TOP 100 lists. ;) Interestingly enough, my D applied to 8 D3 schools and 7 of them are in the top 75 as measured by per capita spending out of 391. Hmmmm.</p>

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<p>barrons, I noted that about Colorado College also. That would really have to skew the numbers.</p>

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...there are 291 schoiols lower than the ones on these TOP 100 lists.

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Hard to believe there are that many schools allotting less than $792 per student for athletic budgets! Geesh, we spend much more than that per kid in my house. Do they have ski teams using salvaged fence boards? Crew teams hollowing out tree trunks? </p>

<p>Seriously, is it because the schools have fairly large student bodies with a very small # of teams fielded? Or no teams at all?</p>

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<p>interesteddad, I googled the DOE stats and I couldn't find where you got your list . Can you give us a link so that we may see who spends the least?</p>

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<p>I am more impressed by these statistics for a Div 3 college that doesn't find itself in I'dad's top 100 in spending per student listing. Money statistics tell only a small part of the story.</p>

<p>-Student-athlete GPA averages exceed those of the student body as a whole</p>

<p>-22 of 23 teams posted GPAs in excess of 3.0</p>

<p>-Seven national Academic All-Americans </p>

<p>-Seven teams went to NCAA championship events </p>

<p>-nine individuals in NCAA national competition</p>

<p>-Field Hockey team had the highest GPA of any single team in the nation</p>

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<p>SS, I don't know how that would be categorized. Why would Olin with zero sports be D3, so why would their numbers be listed? I'd assume they wouldn't be. I'm betting it's NCAA D3 member dues paying schools that field at least some minimum number of teams.</p>

<p>Interesteddad, help us out here. ;)</p>

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<p>Mind you, these are athletic budgets. They don't include the big expenses, like athletic scholarships (or so-called ho-hum "need-based" scholarships for athletes who receive admissions preferences).</p>

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<p><a href="or%20so-called%20ho-hum%20%22need-based%22%20scholarships%20for%20athletes%20who%20receive%20admissions%20preferences">quote=mini</a>.

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mini, don't you dare. LOL. Or at least let me get back into my flame retardant suit before we start. ;)</p>

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<p>(hey, I've got no problem with supporting the athletes - either in admissions or in "need-based" aid - hey, remember, I've got one. ;)</p>

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<p>St Lawrence has a very competitive D1 men's ice hockey team
Plays in the ECAC versus Harvard, Colgate, Brown, Dartmouth etc</p>

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<p>To answer a few questions:</p>

<p>Data is available here: <a href="http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/main.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/main.asp&lt;/a>
You can look at any single school or groups of schools or download the entire spreadsheet as an Excel file, which allows you to sort, generate per student data, and so forth. If you look at a single school, the Expenses are on the second page of data for the school.</p>

<p>b) I just posted the Div III schools, there are many other divisions that can be looked at.</p>

<p>c) The expenses would include athletic scholarships, except that athletic scholarships are banned in Div III.</p>

<p>d) The per student numbers can be small because the number of athletes is so small compared to the number of students. For example, NYU has 448 roster spots (including duplicates) and a student body of 39,400. Tufts has the most roster spots in Div III with 1029.</p>

<p>e) Mini. Another data point to add to your comment. If you look at Division III non-football schools, Swarthmore is #5 in total athletic spending. Haverford is #12. On a per student basis, Haverford is #2 and Swarthmore #3 (they move up to #1 and #2 if you look only at non-football schools with 1000 or more students. This is a perfect example of how data can be more useful than "conventional wisdom". From a spending standpoint, both Swarthmore and Haverford would be pretty attractive for non-football athletes. For example, I know that Swarthmore has a commitment to having a full-time coach in every varsity sport.</p>

<p>f) Curmudgeon: Rhodes is #117 in total spending ($1.548 million) and #73 in per capita ($948).</p>

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<p>"c) The expenses would include athletic scholarships, except that athletic scholarships are banned in Div III."</p>

<p>Yup. Pretty cheesy, huh?</p>

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<p>idad, I was just wondering how many of those top 100 did not have football teams. Football must be the most expensive sport for a school simply because of the large number required for a team.</p>

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<p>BTW, I went looking for the data because of yesterday's NYTIMES article detailing the coming split of DIV III into two or more pieces:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/sports/othersports/13ncaa.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/sports/othersports/13ncaa.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Basically, it's reached a point where those who favor old-school athletics as an adjunct to academics in a league of similarly restrictred competitors can no longer coexist with schools investing the resources (dollars, admissions, etc.) to compete annually for national championships.</p>

<p>The fault lines are going to be blurry and I see some painful decisions for schools. For example, I can easily see Williams faced with a choice of competing for national championships OR remaining in the NESCAC conference with other NE liberal arts colleges.</p>

<p>Like anything else concerning higher education, if you want to understand the issues, start by following the dollars. So, that's why I went looking for the Div III data.</p>