List of college athletic programs in Rhode Island

The list of college athletic programs in Rhode Island below is in tabular format, with columns arranged left to right in the following order: team name, school name, school location, conference, and sport sponsorship with football, basketball (men and women), baseball, softball, ice hockey (men and women), and soccer (men and women) listed. Different team name for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.

NCAA

Division I

Brown

Bryant

Providence

Rhode Island

Full NCAA Division I member colleges in Rhode Island.
– FCS Football, – Non-Football

Team	School	City	Conference	Sport sponsorship
				Foot- ball	Basketball		Base- ball	Soft- ball	Ice hockey		Soccer
					M	W			M	W	M	W
Brown Bears	Brown University	Providence	Ivy League[1]	FCS					[a]	[a]
Bryant Bulldogs	Bryant University	Smithfield	America East	FCS [b]
Providence Friars	Providence College	Providence	Big East[4]						[c]	[c]
Rhode Island Rams	University of Rhode Island	Kingston	Atlantic 10[6]	FCS [d]

1. Brown's ice hockey teams compete in ECAC Hockey.^[2]
2. Bryant's football team competes in the Big South Conference.^[3]
3. Providence's ice hockey teams compete in Hockey East.^[5]
4. Rhode Island's football team competes in CAA Football, the technically separate football league operated by the all-sports Coastal Athletic Association.^[7]

Division III

Johnson & Wales

Rhode Island College

Roger Williams

Salve Regina

Full NCAA Division III member colleges in Rhode Island.
– Football member, – Non-Football

Team	School	City	Conference	Sport sponsorship
				Foot- ball	Basketball		Base- ball	Soft- ball	Ice hockey		Soccer
					M	W			M	W	M	W
Johnson & Wales–Providence Wildcats	Johnson and Wales University Providence	Providence	Great Northeast[8]						[a]	[a]
Rhode Island College Anchormen	Rhode Island College	Providence	Little East[10]
Roger Williams Hawks	Roger Williams University	Bristol	Commonwealth Coast[11]
Salve Regina Seahawks	Salve Regina University	Newport	Commonwealth Coast[11][b]							[c]

1. Johnson & Wales's ice hockey teams compete in the New England Hockey Conference.^[9]
2. Salve Regina will join NEWMAC in 2023–24.
3. Salve Regina's women's ice hockey team competes in the Colonial Hockey Conference.^[12]

NJCAA

Team	School	City	Conference	Sport sponsorship
				Foot- ball	Basketball		Base- ball	Soft- ball	Ice hockey		Soccer
					M	W			M	W	M	W
Community College of Rhode Island Knights	Community College of Rhode Island	Warwick	Massachusetts CC[13][14]

Independent

Team	School	City	Sport sponsorship
			Basketball
			M
RISD Balls	Rhode Island School of Design	Providence

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

References

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6. "Atlantic 10 Conference". ESPN. n.d. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
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10. "Rhode Island College Picked to Repeat as Women's Basketball Champion in 2021-22 LEC Preseason Coaches' Poll". LEC. 2021-10-28. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
11. "No. 22 RWU Hosts Endicott in CCC Women's Basketball Championship". Commonwealth Coast Conference. 2022-02-24. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
12. "Commonwealth Coast Conference starting women's hockey in 2020-21, will assume operation of Colonial Hockey Conference". USCHO. 2019-10-05. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
13. "Member Directory". NJCAA. n.d. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
14. "Men's Massachusetts Community College Athletic Association Conference". Top Drawer Soccer. n.d. Retrieved 2022-04-24.