List of college athletic programs in Massachusetts
This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
NCAA
Division I
Boston College
Boston University
Harvard
Holy Cross
UMass
Merrimack
Northeastern
Stonehill
UMass Lowell
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Full NCAA Division II member colleges in Massachusetts.– FBS Football, – FCS Football, – Non-football
Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||||
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Football | Basketball | Baseball | Softball | Ice hockey | Soccer | |||||||
M | W | M | W | M | W | |||||||
Boston College Eagles | Boston College | Chestnut Hill | ACC | FBS | [a] | [a] | ||||||
Boston University Terriers | Boston University | Boston | Patriot | [a] | [a] | |||||||
Harvard Crimson | Harvard University | Cambridge | Ivy League | FCS | [b] | [b] | ||||||
Holy Cross Crusaders | College of the Holy Cross | Worcester | Patriot | FCS | [c] | [a] | ||||||
UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen [d] | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Amherst | Atlantic 10 | FBS [e] | [a] | |||||||
Merrimack Warriors | Merrimack College | North Andover | Northeast[f] | FCS | [a] | [a] | ||||||
Northeastern Huskies | Northeastern University | Boston | Coastal | [a] | [a] | |||||||
Stonehill Skyhawks [g] | Stonehill College | Easton | Northeast | FCS | [h] | |||||||
UMass Lowell River Hawks | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Lowell | America East | [a] |
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k The men's and women's ice hockey teams of Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts, Merrimack, and Northeastern all compete in Hockey East, as do the UMass Lowell men's and Holy Cross women's teams.
- ^ a b Harvard's ice hockey teams compete in ECAC Hockey.
- ^ Holy Cross's men's ice hockey team competes in Atlantic Hockey.
- ^ While national media generally use "Massachusetts", the shortened "UMass" is in wide usage, especially in Massachusetts itself.
- ^ Massachusetts's football team competes as an independent.
- ^ Merrimack will join the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in the 2024–25 season.
- ^ As of the 2023–24 academic year, Stonehill is in the second year of a four-year transition to Division I and will become an active Division I member in 2026–27.
- ^ Stonehill's women's ice hockey team competes in Division I as a member of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance.
Division II
American International
Assumption
Bentley
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Full NCAA Division II member colleges in Massachusetts.Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||||
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Football | Basketball | Baseball | Softball | Ice hockey | Soccer | |||||||
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American International Yellow Jackets | American International College | Springfield | Northeast-10 | [a] | ||||||||
Assumption Greyhounds | Assumption University | Worcester | Northeast-10 | [b] | ||||||||
Bentley Falcons | Bentley University | Waltham | Northeast-10 | [a] |
- ^ a b American International and Bentley's men's ice hockey teams compete in Division I as members of Atlantic Hockey.
- ^ Assumption women's ice hockey team competes in Division I as member of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance.
Division III
- ^ a b Anna Maria and Dean's football teams compete in the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference.
- ^ a b Anna Maria's ice hockey teams compete as independents.
- ^ a b c d e f The men's ice hockey teams of Babson, Suffolk, and UMass Boston compete in the New England Hockey Conference, as do the women's ice hockey teams of Salem State, Suffolk, and UMass Boston.
- ^ a b Endicott and Nichols's women's ice hockey teams compete in the Colonial Hockey Conference.
- ^ Framingham State's women's ice hockey team will play in 2024–25.
- ^ a b UMass Dartmouth's football and men's ice hockey teams compete in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference.
- ^ Worcester State's women's ice hockey team competes as an independent.
NAIA
Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | |||||
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Basketball | Baseball | Softball | Soccer | ||||||
M | W | M | W | ||||||
Fisher Falcons | Fisher College | Boston | Independent |
USCAA
Team | School | City | Conference |
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Bay Path Wildcats | Bay Path University | Longmeadow | |
Hampshire Black Sheep | Hampshire College | Amherst | Yankee Small College Conference |
NJCAA
Team | School | City | Conference |
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Bristol Bees | Bristol Community College | Fall River | Massachusetts CC |
Bunker Hill Bulldogs | Bunker Hill Community College | Boston | Massachusetts CC |
Holyoke Cougars | Holyoke Community College | Holyoke | Massachusetts CC |
Mass Bay Buccaneers | Massachusetts Bay Community College | Wellesley Hills | Massachusetts CC |
Massasoit Warriors | Massasoit Community College | Brockton | Massachusetts CC |
Northern Essex Knights | Northern Essex Community College | Haverhill | Massachusetts CC |
Quincy Granite | Quincy College | Quincy | Massachusetts CC |
Quinsigamond Wyverns | Quinsigamond Community College | Worcester | Massachusetts CC |
Roxbury Tigers | Roxbury Community College | Roxbury Crossing | Massachusetts CC |
Springfield Tech Rams | Springfield Technical Community College | Springfield | Massachusetts CC |
Other/None
Team | School | City | Conference |
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Stockbridge School of Agriculture | Stockbridge School of Agriculture | Amherst |
1The Stockbridge School of Agriculture, a division of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has separate athletic programs from UMass in basketball and golf.
See also
- List of NCAA Division I institutions
- List of NCAA Division II institutions
- List of NCAA Division III institutions
- List of NAIA institutions
- List of USCAA institutions
- List of NCCAA institutions
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