List of college athletic conferences

This is a List of Athletic Conferences of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

NCAA Division I

Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

Formerly known as Division I-A
*Atlantic Coast Conference
*Big 12 Conference
*Big East Conference
*Big Ten Conference
*Conference USA
*Mid-American Conference
*Mountain West Conference
*NCAA Division I-FBS independent schools
*Pacific-10 Conference
*Southeastern Conference
*Sun Belt Conference
*Western Athletic Conference

Division I FBS Maps

Division I Football Championship Subdivision

Formerly known as Division I-AA or "One Double A"
*Big Sky Conference
*Big South Conference
*Colonial Athletic Association
*Great West Conference
*Ivy League
*Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
*Missouri Valley Football Conference
*NCAA Division I-FCS independent schools
*Northeast Conference
*Ohio Valley Conference
*Patriot League
*Pioneer Football League
*Southern Conference
*Southland Conference
*Southwestern Athletic Conference

Division I FCS Maps

Division I (non-football)

*America East Conference
*Atlantic 10 Conference
*Atlantic Sun Conference
*Big West Conference
*Horizon League
*NCAA Division I independent schools (basketball)
*Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
*Missouri Valley Conference
*The Summit League
*West Coast Conference

Division I Maps (non-football)

Division I Hockey

*Atlantic Hockey
*Central Collegiate Hockey Association
*College Hockey America
*ECAC Hockey
*Hockey East
*NCAA Division I independent schools (women's hockey)
*NCAA Division I Independents (men's hockey)
*Western Collegiate Hockey Association

Division I Hockey Maps

Other Division I Conferences

:"See also List of schools reclassifying their athletic programs to NCAA Division I"
*Atlantic Soccer Conference
*American Lacrosse Conference
*Collegiate Water Polo Association
*ECAC Lacrosse League
*Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
*Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League
*Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
*Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association
*Eastern Wrestling League
*Great Western Lacrosse League
*Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
*Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
*Northern Pacific Field Hockey Conference
*Pacific Coast Softball Conference
*United Soccer Conference
*Western Water Polo Association
*Western Wrestling Conference

Division II

*California Collegiate Athletic Association
*Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
*Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
*Conference Carolinas
*East Coast Conference
*Great Lakes Football Conference
*Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
*Great Lakes Valley Conference
*Great Northwest Athletic Conference
*Gulf South Conference
*Heartland Conference
*Lone Star Conference
*Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association
*NCAA Division II independent schools
*Northeast Ten Conference
*Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference
*Peach Belt Conference
*Pacific West Conference
*Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
*Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
*South Atlantic Conference
*Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
*Sunshine State Conference
*West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Division II Maps

Division III

*Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference
*American Southwest Conference
*Atlantic Central Football Conference
*Capital Athletic Conference
*Centennial Conference
*City University of New York Athletic Conference
*College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
*Colonial States Athletic Conference
*Commonwealth Coast Conference
*Empire Eight
*Great Northeast Athletic Conference
*Great South Athletic Conference
*Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
*Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
*Landmark Conference
*Liberty League
*Little East Conference
*MAC Commonwealth Conference
*MAC Freedom Conference
*Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
*Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
*Middle Atlantic Corporation
*Midwest Conference
*Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
*NCAA Division III independent schools
*New England Collegiate Conference
*New England Football Conference
*New England Small College Athletic Conference
*New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
*New Jersey Athletic Conference
*North Atlantic Conference
*North Coast Athletic Conference
*North Eastern Athletic Conference
*Northern Athletics Conference
*Northwest Conference
*Ohio Athletic Conference
*Old Dominion Athletic Conference
*Presidents' Athletic Conference
*Skyline Conference
*Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
*Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
*State University of New York Athletic Conference
*St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
*University Athletic Association
*Upper Midwest Athletic Conference
*USA South Athletic Conference
*Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Division III Maps

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics - Affiliated Conferences

Conferences that sponsor football

*Central States Football League - Only sponsors football
*Dakota Athletic Conference
*Frontier Conference
*Great Plains Athletic Conference
*Heart of America Athletic Conference
*Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference
*Mid-South Conference
*Mid-States Football Association - Only sponsors football

Football Conference Maps

Conferences that do not sponsor football

*American Mideast Conference
*American Midwest Conference
*Appalachian Athletic Conference
*California Pacific Conference
*Cascade Collegiate Conference
*Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference
*Florida Sun Conference
*Golden State Athletic Conference
*Gulf Coast Athletic Conference
*Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
*Mid-Central College Conference
*Midwest Collegiate Conference
*Red River Athletic Conference
*Sooner Athletic Conference
*Southern States Athletic Conference
*TranSouth Athletic Conference
*Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference

Other Collegiate Sports Associations

*Association of Christian College Athletics (ACCA)
*Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL)
*Central Plains Athletic Conference (CPAC)
*Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
*National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA)
*National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA)
*National Collegiate Wrestling Association
**Mid-Atlantic - Teams from Tennessee, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware
**North Central - Teams from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin
**Northeast - Teams from New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont
**Northwest - Teams from Washington and British Columbia
**Southeast - Teams from Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi
**Southwest - Teams from Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Kansas
**West - Teams from California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona
*United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA)
**Penn State University Athletic Conference
**Yankee Small College Conference

Junior Colleges

*NJCAA
**Alabama Community College Conference
**Arizona Community College Athletic Conference
**Arrowhead Conference
**Bi-State Conference
**Carolinas Junior College Conference
**City University of New York Athletic Conference
**Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference
**Garden State Athletic Conference
**Georgia Junior College Athletic Association
**Illinois N4C Conference
**Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference
**Iowa Community College Athletic Conference
**Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference
**Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference
**Michigan Community College Athletic Association
**Mid-Hudson Athletic Conference
**Mid-State Athletic Conference
**Mid-West Athletic Conference
**Midwest Football Conference (NJCAA)
**Minnesota Community College Conference
**Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges
**MISS-LOU Junior College Conference
**Missouri Community College Athletic Conference
**Mon-Dak Conference
**Mountain Valley Conference
**Ohio Community College Athletic Conference
**Nebraksa Community College Athletic Conference
**Northeast JC Football Conference
**Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges
**Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association
**Scenic West Athletic Conference
**Southwest Junior College Football Conference
**Tennessee Junior & Community College Athletic Association
**Western Junior College Athletic Conference
**Western New York Athletic Conference
**Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference
**Western States Football League
**Wisconsin Technical College Conference
**Wyoming Community College Athletic Conference

*California Community College Athletic Association
**Bay Valley Conference
**Big Eight Conference (California)
**Central Valley Conference
**Coast Conference
**Foothill Athletic Conference
**Golden Valley Conference
**Orange Empire Conference
**Pacific Coast Conference (California)
**South Coast Conference
**Western State Conference

*Other
**Wisconsin Collegiate Conference

Defunct Conferences

*American South Conference (absorbed by Sun Belt Conference)
*Big Eight Conference (previously known as Big Six and Big Seven, merged into the Big 12 Conference)
*Border Conference (disbanded in 1962, members split between the newly-formed WAC and independent status)
*Dixie Conference (the name of three different conferences, the latest of which was the original name of the current Division III USA South Athletic Conference)
*East Coast Conference (Division I) (absorbed by Mid-Continent Conference)
*Eastern Athletic Association (Eastern 8) (became Atlantic Ten Conference)
*Great Midwest Conference (merged with Metro Conference to form Conference USA)
*Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (became the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 1950)
*Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest (from 1892-1893, precursor to the Big Ten Conference)
*Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (the conference disbanded at the end of the 1969-1970 academic year)
*Metro Conference (merged with Great Midwest Conference to form Conference USA)
*Mountain States Conference aka (Skyline Conference) (disbanded in 1962, members split between the newly-formed WAC and independent status)
*North Central Conference (Division II conference, disbanded July 1, 2008)
*North State Conference (renamed the Carolinas Conference in 1961, now known as Conference Carolinas)
*Northern California Athletic Conference (Football conference, dissolved in 1996.)
*Pacific Coast Conference (forerunner to today's Pac-10, disbanded in 1959 due to scandal and infighting)
*Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association disbanded 1941
*Southwest Conference (disbanded in 1995, members split into the Big 12 Conference, Western Athletic Conference, and Conference USA)
*Yankee Conference (absorbed by Atlantic Ten Conference)