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The Northeastern University Athletics Program

What Division Is Northeastern In?

Northeastern is in the Not applicable conference and faces off against other NCAA Division I without football schools.

Northeastern University Sports-Related Financial Aid

A total number of 630 student athletes participate in varsity sports at the school, 308 of whom are male and 322 are female. Sports-related student aid is available at Northeastern and the average award is around $24,315 per athlete. On average, the school gave males around $23,901 of sports aid and women received about $26,568.

Northeastern University Coaches

There are 15 head coaches at Northeastern, 6 of whom lead men’s teams, 8 of whom head up women’s teams, and 1 of whom coaches a coed team. Women’s team head coaches make an average of $127,266, men’s team head coaches make about $240,051 each yea

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Northeastern University, a private research university with an undergraduate enrollment of 20,337 students, plays a total of 16 NCAA sports, 7 of them for men and 9 for women. In the 2021/2022 season, Northeastern University had a total of 452 NCAA athletes comprising 2% of the total student body.

Northeastern is highly likely to have recruited many of the athletes on its NCAA sports teams through the Division 1 athlete recruitment process, enabling these recruited athletes to leapfrog the normal admissions process. It is our best estimate based on team profiles that 50% to 75% of their teams comprise of recruited athletes while the remaining athletes are “walk-on” athletes who were admitted to Northeastern University on merits unrelated to sports.

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Here’s the list of sports played at Northeastern University by gender together with their team sizes.

All data compiled from Northeastern University athletic website.

Division 1
Men's	Men's	Women's	Women's	Total
Sports	Team Size	Sports	Team Size	Team Size
1	Baseball	40	-	-	40
2	Basketball	14	Basketball	7	21
3	Cross Country	23	Cross Country	17	40
4	-	-	Field Hockey	22	22
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