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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is divided into three divisions based on scholarship allocation. Each division is made up of several conferences for regional league competition. Unless otherwise noted, changes in conference affiliation will occur on July 1 of the given year.
Division I
Main article: NCAA Division I, List of NCAA Division I institutions
Under NCAA regulations, all Division I conferences defined as "multisport conferences" must meet the following criteria:
- A total of at least seven active Division I members.
- Separate from the above, at least seven active Division I members that sponsor both men's and women's basketball.
- Sponsorship of at least 12 NCAA Division I sports.
- Minimum of six men's sports, with the following additional restrictions:
- Men's basketball is a mandatory sport, and at least seven members must sponsor that sport.
- Non-football conferences must sponsor at least two men's team sports other than basketball.
- At least six members must sponsor five men's sports other than basketball, including either football or two other team sports.
- Minimum of six women's sports, with the following additional restrictions:
- Women's basketball is a mandatory sport, with at least seven members sponsoring that sport.
- At least two other women's team sports must be sponsored.
- At least six members must sponsor five women's sports other than basketball, including two other team sports. If a conference officially sponsors an NCAA "emerging sport" for women (as of 2023, acrobatics & tumbling, equestrianism, rugby union, stunt, triathlon, or wrestling), that sport will be counted if five members (instead of six) sponsor it.
Schools in all divisions that sponsor athletic programs for only one sex/gender need only meet the sports sponsorship requirements for that sex/gender.
Football Bowl Subdivision
Conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision must meet a more stringent set of NCAA requirements than other conferences. Among these additional NCAA regulations, institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision must be "multisport conferences" and participate in conference play in at least six men's and eight women's sports, including football, men's and women's basketball, and at least two other women's team sports. Each school may count one men's and one women's sport not sponsored by its primary conference toward the above limits, as long as that sport competes in another Division I conference. The men's and women's sports so counted need not be the same sport.
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sports | Headquarters | Map | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Conference | American | 2013 | 13 | 22 | Irving, | ||
| Texas | [[File:AACmap2024.png | 150px]] | |||||
| Atlantic Coast Conference | ACC | 1953 | 18 | 28 | Charlotte, | ||
| North Carolina | [[File:New ACC map.svg | 150px]] | |||||
| Big Ten Conference | Big Ten | ||||||
| B1G | 1896 | 18 | 28 | Rosemont, | |||
| Illinois | [[File:New Big 10 map.svg | 150px]] | |||||
| Big 12 Conference | Big 12 | ||||||
| B12 | 1996 | 16 | 25 | Irving, | |||
| Texas | [[File:New Big 12 map 2024 expansion.svg | 150px]] | |||||
| Conference USA | CUSA | 1995 | 12 | 18 | Dallas, | ||
| Texas | [[File:2024 CUSA Map.jpg | 150px]] | |||||
| Division I | |||||||
| FBS independents | Ind. | N/A | 2 | 1 | N/A | [[File:FBS_Independent_Map_2023.svg | 150px]] |
| Mid-American Conference | MAC | 1946 | 13 | 23 | Cleveland, | ||
| Ohio | [[File:Mac States.svg | 150px]] | |||||
| Mountain West Conference | MW | ||||||
| MWC | 1999 | 12{{efn | group=FBS | 12 full members, 12 football members with Grand Canyon as a non-football member and Hawaii as a football-only affiliate. | |||
| Pac-12 Conference | Pac-12 | ||||||
| P12 | 1959 | 2 | 6 | San Ramon, California | [[File:Pac-12 Conference states.svg | 150px]] | |
| Southeastern Conference | SEC | ||||||
| SE | |||||||
| Southeastern | 1932 | 16 | 22 | Birmingham, | |||
| Alabama | [[File:New SEC Map 2.jpg | 150px]] | |||||
| Sun Belt Conference | SBC | ||||||
| SB | |||||||
| Sun Belt | 1976 | 14 | 20 | New Orleans, | |||
| Louisiana | [[File:Sun Belt states map updated 2022.png | 150px]] |
Football Championship Subdivision
In addition to competing in football, multisport conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision must still meet the general NCAA Division I requirements regarding the minimum number of men's and women's sports (see above).
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Full Members | Sports | Headquarters | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sky Conference | Big Sky | |||||||
| BSC | 1963 | 10{{efn | group=FCS | 10 full members and 12 football members with Cal Poly and UC Davis as football-only affiliates. | ||||
| Big South Conference | Big South | 1983 | 9{{efn | group=FCS | 9 full members and 2 football members. | |||
| Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference | CAA Football | 2007{{efn | group=FCS | While CAA Football was formally founded in 2007, its history can be traced back decades earlier. | ||||
| Division I FCS Independents | 2{{efn | group=FCS | 3 independents possible in 2026 with confirmed move of Sacred Heart to CAA Football, confirmed addition of Chicago State, and potential addition of Sacramento State. | |||||
| Ivy League | Ivy League | 1954{{efn | group=FCS | While the Ivy League considers its athletic conference to have been established in 1954, the history of the athletic league can be traced back decades earlier: | ||||
| Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference | MEAC | 1970 | 8 | 14 | Norfolk, Virginia | [[File:Meac2021.png | 150px]] | |
| Missouri Valley Football Conference | MVFC | 1985 | 10 | 1 | St. Louis, Missouri | [[File:Missouri Valley Football Conference map.png | 150px]] | |
| NEC | NEC | 1981 | 10{{efn | group=FCS | 10 full members, 8 football members with Chicago State, Fairleigh Dickinson, and Le Moyne as non-football members and with Duquesne and Robert Morris as football-only affiliates. | |||
| Ohio Valley Conference | OVC | 1948 | 11{{efn | group=FCS | 11 full members, 7 football members (full member Morehead State plays football in the Pioneer Football League). | |||
| Patriot League | Patriot | 1986 | 10{{efn | group=FCS | 10 full members and 8 football members with Army, Navy, American, Boston, and Loyola (MD) as non-football members (Army and Navy both compete in FBS football) and with Fordham, Georgetown, and Richmond as football-only affiliates. | |||
| Pioneer Football League | PFL | 1991 | 11 | 1 | St. Louis, Missouri | [[File:Pioneer Football League map.png | 150px]] | |
| Southern Conference | SoCon | 1921 | 10{{efn | group=FCS | 10 full members, 9 football members. | |||
| Southland Conference | Southland | |||||||
| SLC | 1963 | 12 | 18 | Frisco, Texas | [[File:Southland Conference Map.svg | 150px]] | ||
| Southwestern Athletic Conference | SWAC | 1920 | 12 | 18 | Birmingham, Alabama | [[File:Swac2021.png | 150px]] | |
| United Athletic Conference | UAC | 2023 | 9{{efn | group=FCS | 9 full members, 7 football members in 2026 with the following changes: |
Non-football, multi-sport conferences
Multisport conferences that do not compete in football must still meet the general NCAA Division I requirements regarding the minimum number of men's and women's sports (see above).
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sports | Headquarters | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| America East Conference | America East | |||||||
| AmEast | 1979 | 9 | 18 | Boston, Massachusetts | [[File: America East Conference Locations.png | 150px]] | ||
| Atlantic Sun Conference | ASUN | 1978 | 12 | 20 | Jacksonville, Florida | [[File:ASUN Map.svg | 150px]] | |
| Atlantic 10 Conference | A-10 | 1975 | 14 | 22 | Newport News, Virginia | [[File:Atlantic 10 Conference map.svg | 150px]] | |
| Big East Conference | Big East | 1979 | 11 | 23 | New York City, New York | [[File: Big East Conference states map.svg | 150px]] | |
| Big West Conference | Big West | |||||||
| BWC | 1969 | 11{{efn | group=NF | 12 members in 2026 with loss of Hawaiʻi and UC Davis, plus | ||||
| Coastal Athletic Association | CAA | 1983 | 13 | 23 | Richmond, Virginia | [[File:Colonial Athletic Association Map.svg | 150px]] | |
| Horizon League | Horizon | 1979 | 11 | 19 | Indianapolis, Indiana | [[File:Updated HL Map.png | 150px]] | |
| Independents | – | |||||||
| Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference | MAAC | 1980 | 13 | 25 | Edison, New Jersey | [[File:Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference map.svg | 150px]] | |
| Missouri Valley Conference | MVC | |||||||
| The Valley | 1907 | 11 | 18 | St. Louis, Missouri | [[File:Missouri Valley Conference map.svg | 150px]] | ||
| Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF | 1992 | 64{{efn | group=NF | No more than 14 schools are competing in any one of the MPSF's sports in 2025–26. | |||
| Summit League | The Summit | 1982 | 9 | 19 | Sioux Falls, South Dakota | [[File:The Summit League map.svg | 150px]] | |
| West Coast Conference | WCC | 1952 | 10{{efn | group=NF | 10 members in 2026 with addition of Denver and loss of Gonzaga. | |||
| Western Athletic Conference | WAC | 1962 | 7{{efn | group=NF | 9 members under the United Athletic Conference banner in 2026 with the following changes: |
Ice hockey conferences
Division I ice hockey has a different conference structure than the above multisport conferences. These schools have memberships in other conferences for other sports.
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members (Men/Women) | Headquarters | Map | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Hockey America | Atlantic Hockey | |||||
| AHA | 1997 | 14 (10/7) | Haverhill, Massachusetts | [[File:Map - College Hockey - Atlantic Hockey America states.svg | 150px]] | |
| Central Collegiate Hockey Association | CCHA | 2020 | 9 (9/none) | Farmington Hills, Michigan | ||
| ECAC Hockey | ECAC | 1962 | 12 (12/12) | Albany, New York | [[File:Map - College Hockey - ECAC Hockey states.svg | 150px]] |
| Hockey East | Hockey East | |||||
| HEA | 1984 | 12 (11/10) | Amesbury, Massachusetts | [[File:Map - College Hockey - Hockey East states.svg | 150px]] | |
| Independents | 5 (5/none) | [[File:Map - College Hockey - Independents states.svg | 150px]] | |||
| New England Women's Hockey Alliance | NEWHA | 2018 | 8 (none/8) | Winthrop, Massachusetts | ||
| National Collegiate Hockey Conference | NCHC | 2011 | 9 (9/none) | Colorado Springs, Colorado | [[File:NCHC states 2024.png | 150px]] |
| Western Collegiate Hockey Association | WCHA | 1951 | 8 (none/8) | Edina, Minnesota | [[File:Map - College Hockey - WCHA states.svg | 150px]] |
Future conference
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Starting play | Members (Men/Women) | Headquarters | Map |
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Other single-sport conferences
This list includes conferences in sports that the NCAA does not fully split into divisions, such as men's volleyball and rifle. Sports in which the NCAA sponsors separate championships for men and women are officially treated by the NCAA as two separate sports.
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sport | Headquarters | Map | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Collegiate Fencing Conference | CCFC | 6 | Fencing | ? | |||
| Central Collegiate Ski Association | CCSA | 2009 | 7 | Skiing | ? | ||
| Collegiate Water Polo Association | CWPA | 1970s | 26 | water polo | Bridgeport, Pennsylvania | ||
| East Atlantic Gymnastics League | EAGL | 1995 | 7 | gymnastics | ? | ||
| Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges | EARC | ? | 18 | rowing | Danbury, Connecticut | [[File:Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges map.png | 150px]] |
| Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges | EAWRC | ? | 18 | rowing | Danbury, Connecticut | [[File:Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges map.png | 150px]] |
| Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League | EIGL | ? | 5 | 1 (gymnastics) | Danbury, Connecticut | ||
| Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association | EISA | ? | 15 | 1 (Skiing) | ? | ||
| Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association | EIVA | 1977 | 7 | 1 () | Bronxville, New York | ||
| Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association | EIWA | 1905 | 17 | 1 (wrestling) | ? | ||
| Eastern Women's Fencing Conference | EWFC | 2000 | 7 | 1 (fencing) | ? | [[File:EWFC map.svg | 150px]] |
| Golden Coast Conference | GCC | 2013 | 8 | 1 (water polo) | ? | [[File:CCAAstates.png | 150px]] |
| Great America Rifle Conference | GARC | 1998 | 9 | 1 (rifle) | ? | ||
| Gymnastics East Conference | GEC | 2021 | 8 | 1 () | ? | ||
| IFCSC | 1996? | 2 | 1 (fencing) | ? | [[File:IFCSC map.svg | 150px]] | |
| Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association | MACFA | 1952 | 8 | 1 (fencing) | Hackettstown, New Jersey | [[File:MACFA map.svg | 150px]] |
| Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference | MAC | 1978 | 7 | 1 (rifle) | ? | ||
| Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference | MAWPC | 7 | 1 (Water polo) | ? | |||
| MFC | 1968 | 6 | 1 (fencing) | ? | [[File:MFC map.svg | 150px]] | |
| Midwest Independent Conference | MIC | ? | 6 | 1 (women's gymnastics) | UIC (?) | ||
| Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association | MIVA | 1961 | 9 | 1 () | Columbus, Ohio | ||
| National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association | NIWFA | 1929 | 10 | 1 (fencing) | ? | [[File:NIWFA map.svg | 150px]] |
| New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference | NEIFC | ? | 8 | 1 (fencing) | ? | [[File:NEIFC map.svg | 150px]] |
| Northeast Fencing Conference | NFC | 1992 | 8 | 1 (fencing) | ? | [[File:NFC map.svg | 150px]] |
| Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive Conference | PCSC | 2002 | 9 (men) | ||||
| 15 (women) | 1 (swimming) | ? | |||||
| Patriot Rifle Conference | PRC | 2013 | 6 | 1 (rifle) | Colorado Springs, Colorado | ||
| Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association | RMISA | 1950 | 6 | 1 (Skiing) | ? | ||
| Western Water Polo Association | WWPA | 1981 | 7 (men) | ||||
| 8 (women) | 1 (water polo) | ? |
Division II
Main article: NCAA Division II, List of NCAA Division II institutions
Among the NCAA regulations, Division II institutions have to sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women (or four for men and six for women), with two team sports for each sex, and each playing season represented by each sex. Teams that consist of both men and women are counted as men's teams for sports sponsorship purposes.
Current conferences
Conferences that sponsor football are highlighted in yellow.
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sports | Headquarters | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Collegiate Athletic Association | CCAA | 1938 | 12 | 13 | Walnut Creek, California | [[File:CCAAstates.png | 150px]] | |
| Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference | CACC | 1961 | 11 | 16 | New Haven, Connecticut | [[File:CACCstates.PNG | 150px]] | |
| Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association | CIAA | 1912 | 13 | 15 | Hampton, Virginia | [[File:Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, coverage map2.png | 150px]] | |
| Conference Carolinas | CC | 1930 | 16 | 26 | Greenville, South Carolina | [[File:CVACstates.PNG | 150px]] | |
| East Coast Conference | ECC | 1989 | 9 | 18 | Central Islip, New York | [[File:ECCMap.png | 150px]] | |
| Great American Conference | GAC | 2011 | 12 | 16 | Russellville, Arkansas | [[File:GACstates.png | 150px]] | |
| Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC | 1972 | 11 | 21 | Bay City, Michigan | [[File:GLIACstates.png | 150px]] | |
| Great Lakes Valley Conference | GLVC | 1978 | 15 | 26 | Indianapolis, Indiana | [[File:GLVCstates.png | 150px]] | |
| Great Midwest Athletic Conference | G-MAC | 2011 | 13 | 25 | Greenwood, Indiana | [[File:Great midwest athletic conference map2.png | 150px]] | |
| Great Northwest Athletic Conference | GNAC | 2001 | 10 | 15 | Portland, Oregon | [[File:Gnac-States.PNG | 150px]] | |
| Gulf South Conference | GSC | 1970 | 12 | 17 | Birmingham, Alabama | [[File:Gulf South Conference map.png | 150px]] | |
| 5 | [[File:DII-indiesstates.png | 150px]] | ||||||
| Lone Star Conference | LSC | 1931 | 18{{efn | group=D2 | 18 full members, 10 football members with Central Washington and Western Oregon as football-only affiliates. | |||
| Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association | MIAA | 1912 | 14 | 19 | Kansas City, Missouri | [[File:MIAAstates.svg | 150px]] | |
| Mountain East Conference | MEC | 2012 | 11{{efn | group=D2 | 11 full members, 9 football members. | |||
| Northeast-10 Conference | NE-10 | 1980 | 11 | 23 | Mansfield, Massachusetts | [[File:Northeast10-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference | NSIC | 1932 | 16 | 18 | [[File:NSICstates.svg | 150px]] | ||
| Pacific West Conference | PacWest | 1992 | 13 | 15 | Newport Beach, California | [[File:PWCstates.png | 150px]] | |
| Peach Belt Conference | PBC | 1990 | 11 | 15 | Augusta, Georgia | [[File:Peachbeltstates.png | 150px]] | |
| Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference | PSAC | 1951 | 17{{efn | group=D2 | 17 full members, 15 football members. | |||
| Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference | RMAC | 1909 | 15 | 23 | Colorado Springs, Colorado | [[File:RMACstates.svg | 150px]] | |
| South Atlantic Conference | SAC | 1975 | 13 | 20 | Rock Hill, South Carolina | [[File:SAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | SIAC | 1913 | 15 | 14 | Tucker, Georgia | [[File:SIACstates.png | 150px]] | |
| Sunshine State Conference | SSC | 1975 | 11 | 18 | Melbourne, Florida | [[File:Sunshineconferencestates.png | 150px]] |
Single-sport conferences
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sport | Headquarters | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Swimming ConferenceAppalachian Swimming Conference. | ASC | ? | 6 (men) | |||
| 4 (women) | swimming | ? | [[File:ASCstates.png | 150px]] | ||
| ECAC Division II Field Hockey League.}} | ECAC | 2014 | 6 | field hockey | Danbury, Connecticut | |
| ECAC Division II Wrestling League.}} | ECAC | 2015 | 7 | wrestling | Danbury, Connecticut | |
| NSISC | 1995 | 5 (men) | ||||
| 6 (women) | swimming | ? | [[File:NSISC swim states.png | 150px]] | ||
| Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive Conference | PCSC | 2003 | 9 (men) | |||
| 15 (women) | swimming | ? | [[File:PacificCollegiateSwim.png | 150px]] |
Other sports
These all-sports conferences sponsor sports which do not have D-II championships.
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sport | Headquarters | Map | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference Carolinas | CC | 1930 | 8 | Greenville, South Carolina | [[File:CVACstates.PNG | 150px]] | |
| 6 | |||||||
| 9 | |||||||
| Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference | CACC | 1961 | 6 | Bowling | New Haven, Connecticut | [[File:CACCstates.PNG | 150px]] |
| Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association | CIAA | 1912 | 10 | Bowling | Hampton, Virginia | [[File:Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, coverage map.png | 150px]] |
| East Coast Conference | ECC | 1989 | 10 | Bowling | Central Islip, New York | [[File:ECCMap.png | 150px]] |
| 4 | |||||||
| Great Lakes Valley Conference | GLVC | 1978 | 7 | Bowling | Indianapolis, Indiana | [[File:GLVCstates.png | 150px]] |
| 7 | Stunt | ||||||
| 8 | |||||||
| 8 | |||||||
| Northeast-10 Conference | NE-10 | 1980 | 7 | South Easton, Massachusetts | [[File:Northeast10-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference | RMAC | 1909 | 5 | Colorado Springs, Colorado | |||
| Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | SIAC | 1913 | 7 | Tucker, Georgia | [[File:SIACstates.png | 150px]] |
Future conference
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sport | Headquarters | Effective date | Map |
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Division III
Main article: NCAA Division III, List of NCAA Division III institutions
Unlike the other two divisions, Division III institutions cannot offer athletic scholarships. Among the other NCAA Division III requirements, schools have sports sponsorship requirements set by the NCAA. All institutions, regardless of enrollment, must sponsor at least three team sports for each sex/gender, and each playing season represented by each sex/gender.
A sports sponsorship rule unique to Division III is that the total number of sports that must be sponsored differs by a school's full-time undergraduate enrollment. Schools with an enrollment of 1,000 or fewer must sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women; those with larger enrollments must sponsor six men's and six women's sports. As in the other divisions, teams that include both men and women are treated as men's sports for the purpose of these regulations.
Current conferences
Conferences that sponsor football highlighted in yellow.
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sports | Headquarters | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | AMCC | 1997 | 9 | 16 | North Boston, New York | [[File:ALMCC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| American Rivers Conference | A-R-C | 1922 | 9 | 22 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | [[File:ARC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| American Southwest Conference | ASC | 1996 | 4{{efn | group=D3 | 4 full members. | |||
| Atlantic East Conference | AEC | 2018 | 8 | 21 | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | [[File:AE-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Centennial Conference | Centennial | 1981 | 11 | 24 | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | [[File:CC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | CUNYAC | 1987 | 8 | 16 | Flushing, Queens, New York | [[File:CUNYAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Coast to Coast Athletic Conference | C2C | 1989 | 7 | 19 | Fredericksburg, Virginia | [[File:Coast to Coast Member Map.png | 150px]] | |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | CCIW | 1946 | 9{{efn | group=D3 | 9 full members, 10 football members with Washington (MO) as a football-only affiliate. | |||
| Collegiate Conference of the South | CCS | 2022 | 9 | 14 | Atlanta, Georgia | [[File:CCoS-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Conference of New England | CNE | 1984 | 11 | 18 | Springfield, Massachusetts | [[File:Map of the USA with The Commonwealth Coast Conference region highlighted.png | 150px]] | |
| Empire 8 | E8 | 1964 | 12 | 22 | Rochester, New York | [[File:E8-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | GNAC | 1995 | 14 | 17 | Boston, Massachusetts | [[File:GNEAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | HCAC | 1987 | 10 | 16 | Greenwood, Indiana | [[File:Heartland-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Division III Independents | 2 | [[File:D3Indies-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |||||
| Landmark Conference | Landmark | 2006 | 10 | 23 | Madison, New Jersey | [[File:Landmark_conference_member_locations.png | 150px]] | |
| Liberty League | Liberty | 1995 | 12 | 26 | Troy, New York | [[File:Liberty-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Little East Conference | LEC | 1986 | 9 | 21 | North Dartmouth, Massachusetts | [[File:LEC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | MASCAC | 1971 | 9 | 16 | Westfield, Massachusetts | [[File:MASAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA | 1888 | 9 | 22 | Freeland, Michigan | [[File:MIAA-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Middle Atlantic Conferences | MAC | 1912 | 16{{efn | group=D3 | 16 full members (8 Commonwealth, 8 Freedom) and 10 football members. | |||
| Midwest Conference | Midwest | 1921 | 9{{efn | group=D3 | 9 full members, 10 football members with Chicago as a football affiliate. | |||
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | MIAC | 1920 | 13 | 22 | St. Paul, Minnesota | [[File:MIAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | NESCAC | 1971 | 11 | 26 | Hadley, Massachusetts | [[File:NESCAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | NEWMAC | 1998 | 12 | 20 | Wellesley, Massachusetts | [[File:NEWAMC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | NJAC | 1985 | 10{{efn | group=D3 | 10 full members with New Jersey City, Ramapo, Rutgers–Camden, Rutgers–Newark, and Stockton as non-football members; 7 football members with Christopher Newport and Salisbury as football affiliates. | |||
| North Atlantic Conference | NAC | 1996 | 10 | 15 | Waterville, Maine | [[File:NAC-USA-states.PNG | 150px]] | |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | NCAC | 1983 | 9 | 23 | Westlake, Ohio | [[File:NCAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | NACC | 2006 | 14{{efn | group=D3 | 14 full members, 9 football members with Eureka as a football-only affiliate. | |||
| Northwest Conference | NWC | 1926 | 9 | 20 | Seattle, Washington | [[File:NWC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | OAC | 1902 | 9 | 23 | Austintown, Ohio | [[File:OAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | ODAC | 1976 | 14 | 26 | Forest, Virginia | [[File:ODAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference | PAC | 1955 | 12{{efn | group=D3 | 12 full members, 12 football members, with two full members not sponsoring football (Chatham and Franciscan) and two football affiliates (Carnegie Mellon and Case Western Reserve). | |||
| SLIAC | 1989 | 9 | 14 | St. Louis, Missouri | [[File:SLIAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | ||
| Skyline Conference | Skyline | 1989 | 12 | 17 | Lawrenceville, New Jersey | [[File:SL-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Southern Athletic Association | SAA | 2012 | 8{{efn | group=D3 | 8 full members, 8 football members with one full member not sponsoring football (Oglethorpe). | |||
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | SCIAC | 1915 | 9{{efn | group=D3 | 9 full members, 6 football members. | |||
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | SCAC | 1962 | 11{{efn | group=D3 | 11 full members, 5 football members with football-only affiliate Lyon. | |||
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNYAC | 1958 | 10 | 20 | Fredonia, New York | [[File:SL-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| United East Conference | United East | 2004 | 15 | 20 | Gansevoort, New York | [[File:UEC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| University Athletic Association | UAA | 1986 | 8 | 22 | Rochester, New York | [[File:UAA-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | UMAC | 1972 | 8 | 16 | St. Paul, Minnesota | [[File:Upper Midwest Athletic Conference Map.svg | 150px]] | |
| USA South Athletic Conference | USA South | 1965 | 10 | 14 | Fayetteville, North Carolina | [[File:USASouth-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | WIAC | 1913 | 8 | 22 | Madison, Wisconsin | [[File:WIAC-USA-states.png | 150px]] |
Single-sport conferences
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sport | Headquarters | Map | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Lacrosse Conference | CLC | 2022 | 7 | Men's lacrosse | [[File:Coastal Lacrosse Conference Map.png | 150px]] | |
| Colonial Women’s Golf Conference | CWGC | 2025 | 7 | Women's golf | N/A | ||
| Continental Volleyball Conference | CVC | 2011 | 9 | Men's volleyball | Madison, New Jersey | ||
| Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League | MCVL | 2014 | 10 | Men's volleyball | Bradenton, Florida | ||
| New England Collegiate Conference | NECC | 2007 | 8 | Men's volleyball | Mansfield, Massachusetts | ||
| Northeast Women's Golf Conference | NWGC | 2019 | 14 | Women's golf | N/A | ||
| Northern Collegiate Hockey Association | NCHA | 1981 | 10 (men) | ||||
| 7 (women) | Ice hockey | Waukesha, Wisconsin | [[File:Map - College Hockey - D3 - NCHA states.svg | 150px]] | |||
| United Volleyball Conference | UVC | 2010 | 8 | Men's volleyball | Rochester, New York | ||
| United Collegiate Hockey Conference | UCHC | 2016 | 12 (men) | ||||
| 13 (women) | Ice hockey | Danbury, Connecticut | [[File:Map - College Hockey - D3 - ECAC West states.svg | 150px]] |
Other sports
These all-sports conferences sponsor sports which do not have D-III championships.
| Conference | Nickname | Founded | Members | Sport | Headquarters | Map | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | AMCC | 1997 | 8 | Bowling | North Boston, New York | [[File:ALMCC-USA-states.png | 150px]] |
| 6 | |||||||
| American Rivers Conference | A-R-C | 1922 | 7 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | [[File:ARC-USA-states.png | 150px]] | |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | CCIW | 1946 | 8 | Bowling | Naperville, Illinois | [[File:CCIW-USA-states.png | 150px]] |
| 8 | |||||||
| Middle Atlantic Conference | MAC | 1912 | 6 | Annville, Pennsylvania | [[File:MAC Conference.png | 150px]] | |
| Metropolitan Swimming Conference | METS | ? | 14 (men) | ||||
| 17 (women) | 1 (swimming) | ? | [[File:MetroSwimstates.png | 150px]] | |||
| SLIAC | 1989 | 6 | |||||
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | WIAC | 1913 | 8 | Women's gymnastics | Madison, Wisconsin |
Defunct NCAA conferences
| Conference | Division | Founded | Folded | Fate | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| America Sky Conference | Division I | 2007 | 2014 | url=http://www.standard.net/Sports/2014/06/04/Weber-State-joins-familiar-friends-foes-as-Big-Sky-brings-back-men-s-golf.html | title=WSU joins friends/foes as Big Sky brings back men's golf | first=Roy | last=Burton | newspaper=Standard-Examiner | location=Ogden, UT | date=June 4, 2014 | access-date=June 13, 2014 | archive-date=July 14, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714164422/http://www.standard.net/Sports/2014/06/04/Weber-State-joins-familiar-friends-foes-as-Big-Sky-brings-back-men-s-golf.html | url-status=dead }} |
| American Collegiate Athletic Association | Division III | 2017 | 2020 | Merged with the Capital Athletic Conference, with the merged conference renaming itself the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference shortly thereafter. | ||||||||||
| American Lacrosse Conference | Division I | 2001 | 2014 | Women's lacrosse conference that folded after the 2014 season due to fallout of the early-2010s conference realignment, specifically the 2013 announcement by the Big Ten that it would add men's and women's lacrosse for the 2014–15 school year (2015 season). Four of the seven final ALC members are full Big Ten members. Johns Hopkins went independent before joining Big Ten women's lacrosse in the 2017 season. The other two members became Big East affiliates. | ||||||||||
| American South Conference | Division I | 1987 | 1991 | Merged with the Sun Belt Conference. The new conference used the Sun Belt name. | ||||||||||
| Atlantic Central Football Conference | Division III | 1997 | 2010 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Atlantic Hockey Association | Division I | 2003 | 2024 | Founded in 1997 as the men's hockey league of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference; separated from the MAAC in 2003. Merged with College Hockey America to form the current Atlantic Hockey America. | ||||||||||
| Atlantic Soccer Conference | Division I | 2000 | 2012 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference | Division III | 1995 | 2007 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Big Central Soccer Conference | Division I | 1987 | 1991 | Men's soccer-only conference disbanded after the all-sports conferences of all but two of its members began sponsoring the sport. | ||||||||||
| Big Eight Conference | Division I | 1907 | 1996 | Initially formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, before six schools split away to form the Big Six in 1928. | ||||||||||
| Brought in four former Southwest Conference schools to grow into the Big 12 Conference. | ||||||||||||||
| Border Conference | University Division | 1931 | 1962 | Members split between the newly formed WAC and independent statuses. | ||||||||||
| Central Collegiate Hockey Association (original) | Division I | 1971 | 2013 | The decision of the Big Ten Conference to add men's ice hockey as a sponsored sport in the 2013–14 season, taking three of the most successful members of the then-11-member league, led to a major conference realignment that ultimately consumed the CCHA. Two members joined the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference, one member joined Hockey East, and the remaining five members joined or rejoined the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The CCHA would be revived in 2021 with eight members, four of which played in the final season of the original league; the current CCHA considers itself a continuation of the original. | ||||||||||
| Central Intercollegiate Bowling Conference | Division III | 2019 | 2020 | url=https://cciw.org/news/2020/7/20/general-cciw-announces-the-addition-of-womens-bowling-as-its-25th-sport-three-programs-added-as-associate-members.aspx | title=CCIW Announces the Addition of Women's Bowling as Its 25th Sport; Three Programs Added as Associate Members | publisher=College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | date=July 23, 2020 | access-date=September 7, 2020 | archive-date=March 22, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322153043/https://cciw.org/news/2020/7/20/general-cciw-announces-the-addition-of-womens-bowling-as-its-25th-sport-three-programs-added-as-associate-members.aspx | url-status=live }} | |||
| Coastal Collegiate Sports Association | Division I | 2008 | 2025 | Originally started as a joint venture of several all-sports conferences to house their swimming & diving programs. Beach volleyball was later added to the conference's scope. The swimming & diving side was effectively absorbed by the Atlantic Sun Conference when it started sponsoring men's and women's swim/dive in 2023. Of the final four beach volleyball members, two joined the Big 12 Conference and two joined the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for that sport after the 2025 season. | ||||||||||
| College Hockey America | Division I | 1999 | 2024 | Founded as a men's-only league; added a women's division in 2002. The men's division disbanded in 2010 after steady losses of membership. The women's division merged with the Atlantic Hockey Association to form the current Atlantic Hockey America | ||||||||||
| Colonial Hockey Conference | Division III | 2015 | 2020 | Women's ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded after the 2019–20 season when the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC), now known as the Conference of New England, took over operations. At that time, all of the remaining members were full members of the CCC. | ||||||||||
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Division III | 1992 | 2023 | Merged with the United East Conference. The 'new' conference used the United East name. | ||||||||||
| Commonwealth Coast Football | Division III | 1965 | 2022 | Football-only conference, absorbed by the Commonwealth Coast Conference (now the Conference of New England). Rebranded in 2017 from its original name, the New England Football Conference. | ||||||||||
| Continental Divide Conference | Division II | ??? | 1992 | Women's-only conference that merged with the men's-only Great Northwest Conference (not to be confused with the current Great Northwest Athletic Conference) to form the Pacific West Conference. | ||||||||||
| Deep South Conference | Division II | 1994 | 2013 | Men's lacrosse conference disbanded when the South Atlantic Conference and Sunshine State Conference, home to all nine of the final conference members, began sponsoring the sport. | ||||||||||
| Dixie Conference | * | 1930 | 1942 | Disbanded after most of its members suspended athletics during World War II. | ||||||||||
| Dixie Conference | * | 1948 | 1954 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| East Coast Conference | Division I | 1958 | 1994 | Absorbed by the Mid-Continent Conference, now known as The Summit League. | ||||||||||
| Eastern Collegiate Football Conference | Division III | 2009 | 2024 | Football-only conference. Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League | * | 1929 | 1992 | Baseball-only conference absorbed by the Ivy League, disbanded when Army and Navy aligned their baseball teams with the bulk of their other teams in the Patriot League. | ||||||||||
| Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League | * | 1901 | 1955 | Basketball-only conference absorbed by the Ivy League, which claims the EIBL as part of its own history. | ||||||||||
| Eastern Wrestling League | Division I | 1975 | 2019 | Wrestling-only league absorbed by the Mid-American Conference. | ||||||||||
| ECAC Lacrosse League | Division I | 1999 | 2014 | Men's lacrosse conference that disbanded after the 2014 season. The conference lost many members after the 2010 season when the original Big East launched a men's lacrosse league, and lost still more members with the Big Ten announcement. At the end of the final ECAC Lacrosse season, only one member had not announced a new lacrosse affiliation for the 2014–15 school year; that school would later join Southern Conference men's lacrosse. | ||||||||||
| ECAC Division II Lacrosse League | Division II | 2012 | 2016 | Disbanded. Six members began play in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, leaving three members to become independents. | ||||||||||
| ECAC Northeast | Division III | 1971 | 2016 | Ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded | ||||||||||
| ECAC West | Division III | 1984 | 2016 | Ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Freedom Football Conference | Division III | 1992 | 2003 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Great Lakes Football Conference | Division II | 2006 | 2012 | Football-only conference, effectively absorbed by the Great Lakes Valley Conference. | ||||||||||
| Great Midwest Conference | Division I | 1991 | 1995 | Merged with the Metro Conference to form Conference USA. | ||||||||||
| Great Northwest Conference | Division II | ??? | 1992 | The second part of the merger that created the current Pacific West Conference. | ||||||||||
| Great South Athletic Conference | Division III | 1999 | 2016 | Ended sponsorship of men's sports in 2012; remained a women-only league until disbanding entirely. One media outlet specializing in D-III sports coverage considered the Collegiate Conference of the South, formed in 2022 by an amicable split of the USA South Athletic Conference, a spiritual successor, noting that seven of the nine charter CCS members had been Great South members in the last season that it sponsored men's sports. | ||||||||||
| Great West Conference | Division I | 2004 | 2013 | Disbanded after all but one of its members joined more established conferences during the early-2010s conference realignment. The men's golf history and Internet presence of the Great West were maintained by the America Sky Conference (above) before the latter conference's absorption by the Big Sky. | ||||||||||
| Great West Hockey Conference | Division I | 1985 | 1988 | Ice hockey-only conference formed by four Western schools, but had one of its members drop hockey after its first season. After failing to attract additional members in 1988, the league folded when one of the remaining members shut down its entire athletic program. | ||||||||||
| Great Western Lacrosse League | Division I | 1993 | 2010 | Members joined the ECAC Lacrosse League (see above). | ||||||||||
| Gulf Coast Conference | College Division | 1949 | 1957 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Gulf Star Conference | Division I | 1984 | 1987 | Effectively absorbed by the Southland Conference. | ||||||||||
| Heartland Conference | Division II | 1999 | 2019 | In August 2017, eight of the nine members announced a mass exodus to the Lone Star Conference (LSC)—a conference with which the Heartland Conference had recently discussed a potential merger— effective in 2019. One of the eight schools changed course and instead opted to become a de facto member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in 2019, joining the remaining Heartland member in that status. | ||||||||||
| High Country Athletic Conference | Division I | 1983 | 1990 | Women's-only conference absorbed by the Western Athletic Conference. | ||||||||||
| Indiana Collegiate Conference | Division II | 1950 | 1978 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Indiana Intercollegiate Conference | * | 1922 | 1950 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Indiana Intercollegiate Conference | Unknown | 1922 | 1950 | Split into two conferences, the Indiana Collegiate Conference was made of the larger schools; the Hoosier Collegiate Conference was made of the small, private schools | ||||||||||
| Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | University Division | 1908 | 1970 | Previously known as Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, disbanded. | ||||||||||
| Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest | * | 1892 | 1893 | Disbanded, precursor to the Big Ten Conference. | ||||||||||
| Lake Michigan Conference | Division III | 1974 | 2007 | Merged with the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference to form the Northern Athletics Conference, now known as the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference. | ||||||||||
| Metro Conference | Division I | 1975 | 1995 | Merged with the Great Midwest Conference to form Conference USA. | ||||||||||
| Metropolitan Collegiate Conference | University Division | 1965 | 1969 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Metropolitan New York Conference | University Division | 1933 | 1963 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Mid-Continent Athletic Association | Division II, later Division I | 1978 | 1981 | Football-only conference absorbed by the Association of Mid-Continent Universities in 1982. Effectively one of the precursors to the current Missouri Valley Football Conference. | ||||||||||
| Midwest Athletic Conference for Women | Division III | 1977 | 1994 | Merged with the men's Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference, forming the current Midwest Conference. | ||||||||||
| Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association | Division III | 1998 | 2013 | Absorbed by the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association. | ||||||||||
| Midwest Lacrosse Conference | Division III | 2009 | 2024 | Men's lacrosse-only conference. Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference | Division III | 2010 | 2024 | Women's lacrosse-only conference. Disbanded | ||||||||||
| Midwestern Conference | University Division | 1970 | 1972 | The five member schools were unable to find the 6th member required for NCAA recognition. | ||||||||||
| Mountain States Conference (aka Skyline Conference) | University Division | 1938 | 1962 | Disbanded, members split between the newly formed WAC and independent statuses. | ||||||||||
| Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference | Division I | 2013 | 2023 | Women's gymnastics conference; disbanded after the Mountain West Conference began sponsoring women's gymnastics. | ||||||||||
| Mountain West Athletic Conference | Division I | 1982 | 1988 | Women's-only conference (not to be confused with the modern Mountain West Conference) absorbed by the Big Sky Conference. | ||||||||||
| National Lacrosse Conference | Division I | 2008 | 2012 | Disbanded after the Atlantic Sun Conference and Big South Conference began sponsoring women's lacrosse. | ||||||||||
| New England Collegiate Conference | Division III | 2007 | 2023 | Disbanded as an all-sports conference after steady losses of membership, both by schools closing and moves to other conferences. Remains in operation for men's volleyball and the non-NCAA esports. | ||||||||||
| New England Conference | * | 1938 | 1947 | Disbanded; the final four members joined two other schools to form the Yankee Conference under a new charter. Effectively the earliest ancestor of CAA Football, a conference operated by the Coastal Athletic Association but a separate legal entity, although CAA Football does not claim the NEC's history. | ||||||||||
| New England Hockey Conference | Division III | 2015 | 2025 | Ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded | ||||||||||
| New England Women's Lacrosse Alliance | Division III | 1998 | 2012 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| New South Women's Athletic Conference | Division I | 1985 | 1991 | Women's-only conference initially known as the New South Conference; absorbed by the Trans America Athletic Conference, now known as the Atlantic Sun Conference. | ||||||||||
| North Central Conference | Division II | 1922 | 2008 | Disbanded | ||||||||||
| North East Collegiate Volleyball Association | Division III | 1995 | 2011 | Men's volleyball conference disbanded in 2011 due to the 2012 establishment of the NCAA Division III Men's Volleyball Championship. Most of the all-sports conferences that were home to NECVA members began sponsoring men's volleyball at that time. | ||||||||||
| Northeast Women's Hockey League | Division III | 2017 | 2023 | Women's ice hockey only conference. It was absorbed by SUNYAC. | ||||||||||
| North Star Conference | Division I | 1983 | 1992 | Women's-only conference effectively absorbed by the Mid-Continent Conference (now The Summit League). | ||||||||||
| Northern California Athletic Conference | Division II | 1925 | 1996 | Football-only conference, dissolved when most members decided to drop football. | ||||||||||
| Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference | Division III | 1969 | 2007 | Merged with the Lake Michigan Conference to form the Northern Athletics Conference, now known as the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference. | ||||||||||
| Northern Pacific Conference | Division I | 1982 | 1986 | Women's-only conference. Disbanded when the Pac-10, home to five of the seven final conference members, began sponsoring women's sports. | ||||||||||
| Northern Pacific Field Hockey Conference | Division I | 1982 | 2015 | Field hockey-only conference that folded after the 2014 season. After a period in which the conference expanded to span both coasts, most of the eastern teams left over time. Four of the six final members, all from California (and also the league's founding members), became America East affiliates. The remaining two members became independents; one is now a field hockey member of the Big East and the other is now a MAC field hockey member. | ||||||||||
| Northern Sun Conference | Division II | 1979 | 1992 | Women's-only conference that merged with the men's Northern Intercollegiate Conference, forming the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. | ||||||||||
| Ohio River Lacrosse Conference | Division III | 2014 | 2018 | Men's and women's lacrosse-only conference. Disbanded after the 2017–18 season. | ||||||||||
| Pacific Coast Conference | University Division | 1915 | 1959 | Forerunner to the Pac-12, disbanded due to scandal and infighting. The Pac-12 considers its history to have started with the formation of the PCC. | ||||||||||
| Pacific Coast Softball Conference | Division I | 2002 | 2013 | Softball-only; disbanded due to fallout from the early-2010s conference realignment. After the 2012 season, it lost five members when the Big Sky added the sport and a sixth to the WAC. After the 2013 season, the final seven members left when the West Coast Conference began sponsoring the sport (five were already WCC members, and the other two joined the WAC in softball). | ||||||||||
| Pilgrim Lacrosse League | Division III | 1986 | 2014 | Absorbed by the NEWMAC. | ||||||||||
| Southeast Team Handball Conference | Division I (de facto) | 1997 | 2006 | Women-only team handball conference. Disbanded when the sport was dropped from the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program. | ||||||||||
| Southland Bowling League | Division I | 2015 | 2023 | Bowling-only league founded by, but independent of, the Southland Conference. Merged into Conference USA; one of the final members was already a full CUSA member, another became a full CUSA member in 2023, and the others became CUSA associates. | ||||||||||
| Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association | * | 1894 | 1941 | Disbanded with the onset of American involvement in World War II. | ||||||||||
| Southwest Conference | Division I | 1914 | 1996 | Disbanded. | ||||||||||
| 4 members left to join the Big Eight Conference in forming the Big 12. | ||||||||||||||
| 3 members left to join the WAC. | ||||||||||||||
| 1 member left to join CUSA. | ||||||||||||||
| Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Division III | 1976 | 1996 | Disbanded. All final members joined the American Southwest Conference. | ||||||||||
| United Soccer Conference | Division I | 2005 | 2009 | Women's soccer-only, absorbed by the Great West Conference. | ||||||||||
| West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Division II | 1924 | 2013 | Disbanded after the conference's football schools announced a split from the non-football schools. Ultimately, nine of the final schools became charter members of the Mountain East Conference, three joined the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, two joined the PSAC, and one went independent. | ||||||||||
| Western Collegiate Athletic Association | Division I | 1981 | 1986 | Women's-only conference; known in its final season of 1985–86 as the Pacific West Conference (not to be confused with the current NCAA Division II conference). Disbanded when the Pac-10, home to the final five conference members, began sponsoring women's sports. | ||||||||||
| Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association | Division II | 2010 | 2015 | Lacrosse-only conference absorbed by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference; all final teams are members of the RMAC, including one affiliate. The RMAC had absorbed the women's side of the WILA in 2013; five of the members were RMAC members including one affiliate, one additional women's member became an independent. | ||||||||||
| Western Wrestling Conference | Division I | 2006 | 2015 | Wrestling-only conference effectively absorbed by the Big 12 Conference, with all but one of its final members immediately becoming single-sport Big 12 associates and the remaining member joining Big 12 wrestling in 2017. | ||||||||||
| Yankee Conference | Division I | 1947 | 1997 | Football-only conference from 1975 until its absorption by the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1997. Also an effective ancestor of CAA Football, and officially recognized by CAA Football as its earliest predecessor. |
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In addition to the above, two single-sport conferences that currently participate in NCAA National Collegiate sports (those whose championship events are open to members of more than one NCAA division) and previously operated both men's and women's divisions now operate as women-only leagues.
| Conference | Division | Founded | Folded | Fate |
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| Golden Coast Conference (men's) | National Collegiate | 2013 | 2023 | Water polo-only conference founded as a women's-only league; added a men's division in 2016. The men's division disbanded after the 2022 season (2022–23 school year) after all six of its final members joined the new men's water polo leagues of the Big West Conference and West Coast Conference. |
| Western Collegiate Hockey Association (men's) | Division I | 1951 | 2021 | Founded as a men's-only league; added a women's division in 1999. The men's division disbanded in 2021 after seven of its members left to reestablish the Central Collegiate Hockey Association; two other men's members dropped hockey, and the other went independent. |
Conferences set to disband
This section is reserved for conferences currently in operation, but likely to disband in the near future due to major membership losses.
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