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College Scholarship Levels

How Many Scholarships Are Allowed At The Different College Levels?

NCAA Division I
 

  • 11.7 full scholarships
  • Scholarship monies can be divided up
  • Full scholarships are VERY rare
  • Some lower level Division I schools do not fully fund all 11.7 available scholarships
  • Blending of athletic and academic scholarship monies is permissible for academically qualifying student-athletes (This varies from school to school)

NCAA Division II

  • 9 full scholarships
  • Scholarships monies can be divided up
  • Full scholarships in baseball are very rare
  • Many NCAA DII programs do not fully fund all 9 scholarships
    In other words a school may only have 6 funded scholarships to work with – due to athletic department funding restrictions
  • Blending of athletic and academic scholarship monies is permissible for academically qualifying student-athletes (This varies from school to school)

NCAA Division III

  • 0 athletic scholarships available
  • Many Division III schools do a very good job of finding the players academic and other aid funding

Ivy League & Patriot League

  • The schools in the NCAA Division I “Ivy League and Patriot League” conferences do not offer athletic scholarship aid.
  • Some schools in these conferences have programs available to offer “need based” aid to student-athletes
  • Exceptional academically student-athletes may qualify for academic scholarship assistance

NAIA

  • 12 full scholarships
  • Scholarship monies can be divided up
  • Full scholarships in baseball are very rare
  • Some NAIA baseball programs do not have the full 12 scholarships funded
    Typically the “year in year out” NAIA baseball powers have the full 12 scholarships
  • Several NAIA baseball programs also have “junior varsity” baseball programs
  • Blending of athletic and academic scholarship monies is permissible for academically qualifying student-athletes (This varies from school to school)

NJCAA Division I

  • 24 full scholarships (including the following):
  • Tuition, room, board, books and fees
  • Blending of athletic and academic scholarship monies is permissible for academically qualifying student-athletes (This varies from school to school)

NJCAA Division II

  • 24 scholarships (including the following):
  • Tuition and books
  • No room, board or fees
  • Blending of athletic and academic scholarship monies is permissible for academically qualifying student-athletes (This varies from school to school)

NJCAA Division III

  • 0 athletic scholarships
  • Typically junior and community colleges are very inexpensive so many DIII juco baseball programs are able to field very competitive programs

Notes About NJCAA Scholarships:

  • Many NJCAA scholarships ARE full scholarships – this is completely opposite to NCAA baseball program “norms.”
  • The amount of fully funded scholarships varies widely from school to school and conference to conference
  • Some NJCAA conferences / regions compete at DI or DII levels but per agreement among the conference schools do not offer scholarships or have reduced amounts of numbers of scholarships
  • Scholarships and amounts offered can vary from conference/region to conference/region – per agreements made by the member teams