List of U.S. collegiate skiing programs

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The following are schools in the United States that field ski programs competing in either the NCAA or the USCSA.

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NCAA Skiing

The NCAA holds a single, all-division championship for men, and a single, all-division championship for women.

There are three NCAA affiliated ski conferences: the Central Collegiate Ski Association, Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association and Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association. The conferences consist of Division I, Division II, Division III, [1] [2] and some non-NCAA affiliated teams which compete as guests. There are also some NCAA affiliated teams that are not members of an NCAA ski conference and compete in the USCSA.

Central Collegiate Ski Association

Note: CCSA only sponsors NCAA Nordic Skiing

Division I

Division II

Division III


Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association

Division I

[3] [4]

Division II

[5] [6]

Division III

[7] [8]

Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association

Division I

[10] [11]

Division II

[12] [13]

Associate Members

United States Collegiate Skiing and Snowboard Association (USCSA)


The USCSA sponsors alpine, nordic, freestyle skiing, and snowboarding competitions. Most of these programs are not in the NCAA and range in level of competitiveness. Some are sponsored by the school and are varsity programs, while others are club teams.

USCSA ski programs by conference [16]
AlleghenyAtlantic HighlandsEasternGrand TetonMideastMidwestNorthern CaliforniaNorthwestRocky MountainSoutheastSouthwest
Carnegie Mellon University Columbia University Amherst College Rocky Mountain College Alfred University Central Michigan University California State University Sacramento Gonzaga University Colorado Mesa University Appalachian State University California State University Long Beach
Pennsylvania State University Drexel University Babson College University of Utah Binghamton University College of St. Scholastica Stanford University Northwest Nazarene University Colorado School of Mines Duke University Loyola Marymount University
United States Naval Academy Fairfield University Boston University Montana State University Colgate University Dakota County Technical College University of California, Berkeley The College of Idaho Colorado State University East Carolina University San Diego State University
University of Maryland Kean University Bowdoin College Cornell University Dunwoody College of Technology University of California, Davis University of British Columbia University of Colorado Boulder George Mason University The Claremont Colleges
University of Pittsburgh La Salle University Brandeis University Hamilton College Grand Valley State University University of Nevada University of Idaho Western Colorado University Georgetown University University of California Los Angeles
Villanova University Lafayette College Brown University Hobart and William Smith Colleges Iowa State University University of Oregon United States Air Force Academy Georgia Institute of Technology University of California, San Diego
West Virginia University Lehigh University Castleton University Ithaca College Michigan State University University of Puget Sound Fort Lewis College James Madison University University of Southern California
Kutztown University Moravian College Clarkson University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Michigan Technological University University of Washington University of Wyoming Lees-McRae College Arizona State University
Princeton University College of the Holy Cross Rochester Institute of Technology Northern Michigan University Washington State University North Carolina State University
Rutgers University Connecticut College Skidmore College St. Olaf College Whitman College University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stevens Institute of Technology Marist College St. Bonaventure University Ohio State University University of North Carolina at Charlotte
United States Military Academy Massachusetts Institute of Technology St. John Fisher University University of Iowa University of Virginia
University of Pennsylvania New England College State University of New York at Albany University of Michigan Virginia Tech
Northeastern University State University of New York Geneseo University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Washington and Lee University
Paul Smith's College Syracuse University University of Minnesota-Duluth Western Carolina University
Roger Williams College University of Rochester University of Notre Dame
Saint Anselm College University of South Dakota
Smith College University of Wisconsin-Madison
St. Joseph's College of Maine
Trinity College
Tufts University
United States Coast Guard Academy
University of Connecticut
University of Maine
University of Maine at Farmington
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Rhode Island
Vassar College
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yale University

† School sponsors team as a varsity NCAA skiing program, but competes in USCSA.

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