Fence your way past low admission rates?

Data10
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:26:06 +0000

Data10:

Some specific numbers are below, using federal reporting from a few years ago.

I was curious, so I generated a table of % of undergrads that are varsity athletes for all colleges, using the federal database download. Among colleges that play in NCAA conferences and have a football team, the median and average % varsity athletes were 12% and 17% respectively.

The colleges with lowest % varsity athletes were all larger publics.

Lowest Percent Varsity Athletes
1 . UCF – 1.05%
2. Texas State – 1.26%
3. Texas A&M – 1.26%
4. University of Boulder – 1.35%
5. North Texas – 1.36%

The highest listed percent varsity athletes occurred at smaller colleges that I am not familiar with. I did not list Erskine (89%) because they report abnormally large rosters, which makes me believe their reporting is incorrect. An example is 97/492 male students on baseball roster.

Highest Percent Varsity Athletes
1 . McKendree – 67%
2. Bethany – 66%
3. Defiance – 64%
4. Lake Erie – 63%
5. Aldersun Broaddus – 60%

Limiting to colleges that I am more familiar with, the highest percent varsity athletes were USMMA + NESCAC LACs, as listed below.

1 . US Merchant Marine – 43%
2. Bates – 37%
3. Bowdoin – 36%
4. Williams – 36%
5. Colby – 33%

The sports with the largest median roster size were as follows. Had I combined indoor T&F, outdoor T&F, and X country into a single grouping, it would have been 2nd largest after football.

Largest Median Roster Size
1 . Men’s Football – 111
2. Women’s Rowing – 52
3. Men’s Lacrosse – 41
4. Men’s Baseball – 37
5. Men’s Indoor T&F – 36
5. Men’s Rowing – 36
…

Men’s Fencing – 17
Women’s Fencing – 15