The main article is College sports.
Notes:
- This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
- Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
- Full name of school.
- Location of school.
- Football Subdivision for Division I schools (Bowl or Championship), with a link to each of the NCAA Subdivisions.
- Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
- Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
- Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school (formerly the case for the College of Charleston, but media now use "Charleston" for that school's athletic program).
- Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name "University of North Carolina" may variously be found at "C" (Charlotte), "N" (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and "U" (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
- The prefix "St.", as in "Saint", is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.
- 1 2 Ball State and Fort Wayne play men's volleyball in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.
- ↑ Butler is in the Big East for all sports except football, where it competes in the Pioneer Football League.
- ↑ Indiana State football plays in the Missouri Valley Football Conference, which is a separate legal entity from the MVC despite the similarity in name.
- ↑ Notre Dame is in the ACC for all sports except for football, where it is independent, and men's ice hockey, where it competes in the Big Ten.
- ↑ On July 1, 2018, Indiana University and Purdue University will dissolve their merged Fort Wayne campus. IU will take over academic programs in health sciences under the banner of Indiana University Fort Wayne, and Purdue will take over all other programs as Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). Shortly before the split took effect, the former IPFW athletic program, which will be inherited intact by PFW, announced that it would be known from 2018–19 as the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons.
- ↑ Valparaiso, a full member of the Missouri Valley Conference, maintains outside memberships in four sports that the MVC does not sponsor. Football competes in the Pioneer Football League, women's bowling in the Southland Bowling League, and men's swimming and men's tennis in the Summit League.