This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||||
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Foot- ball | Basketball | Base- ball | Soft- ball | Ice hockey | Soccer | |||||||
M | W | M | W | M | W | |||||||
Kansas City Roos | University of Missouri–Kansas City | Kansas City | Summit | |||||||||
Lindenwood Lions and Lady Lions [lower-alpha 1] | Lindenwood University | St. Charles | Ohio Valley | FCS | [lower-alpha 2] | [lower-alpha 2] | ||||||
Missouri Tigers | University of Missouri | Columbia | SEC | FBS | ||||||||
Missouri State Bears and Lady Bears | Missouri State University | Springfield | Missouri Valley | FCS [lower-alpha 3] | ||||||||
Saint Louis Billikens | Saint Louis University | St. Louis | Atlantic 10 | |||||||||
Southeast Missouri State Redhawks | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau | Ohio Valley | FCS |
Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||
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Foot- ball | Basketball | Base- ball | Soft- ball | Soccer | ||||||
M | W | M | W | |||||||
Fontbonne Griffins | Fontbonne University | Clayton | St. Louis | [lower-alpha 1] | ||||||
Washington University Bears | Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis | UAA | [lower-alpha 2] | ||||||
Webster Gorloks | Webster University | Webster Groves | St. Louis | |||||||
Westminster Blue Jays | Westminster College | Fulton | St. Louis | [lower-alpha 3] |
Team | School | City | Conference |
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Calvary Warriors | Calvary University | Kansas City | |
Central Christian Saints | Central Christian College of the Bible | Moberly | |
College of the Ozarks Bobcats | College of the Ozarks | Point Lookout | |
Mission Patriots | Mission University | Springfield | |
Ozark Christian Ambassadors | Ozark Christian College | Joplin | |
Spurgeon College Knights | Spurgeon College | Kansas City |
Team | School | City | Division | Defunct |
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St. Louis Christian Soldiers | St. Louis Christian College | Florissant | ACCA | 2022 [lower-alpha 1] |
The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Its fourteen member institutions, of which all but one are public schools, are located in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. The MIAA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Missouri.
The Heart of America Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Member institutions are located in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska in the United States.
The Mid-States Football Association (MSFA) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA. Member institutions are located in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The MSFA was organized in 1993, and on-field competition began in 1994. The MSFA is divided into two leagues, the Mideast and the Midwest.
Lindenwood University is a private university in St. Charles, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1832 by George Champlin Sibley and Mary Easton Sibley as The Lindenwood School for Girls, it is the second-oldest higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River.
NAIA independent schools are four-year institutional members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) that do not have formal conference affiliations. NAIA schools that are not members of any other athletic conference are members of the Continental Athletic Conference (CAC), formerly the Association of Independent Institutions (AII), which provides member services to the institution and allows members to compete in postseason competition. The CAC has one member institution in Canada's British Columbia. It provides services to the member institutions that are not fitting in any other NAIA conference and allows members to compete in postseason competition. The AII renamed itself the Continental Athletic Conference at the end of June 2021, citing the need to identify as a proper conference.
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic powers, with large budgets, more elaborate and nicer facilities and a few more athletic scholarships than Divisions II and III as well as many smaller schools committed to the highest level of intercollegiate competition.
The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Its fifteen member institutions are located in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri. There are also four associate members who participate in sports not sponsored by their home conference.
NCAA Division I independent schools are four-year institutions that compete in college athletics at the NCAA Division I level, but do not belong to an established athletic conference for a particular sport. These schools may however still compete as members of an athletic conference in other sports. A school may also be fully independent, and not belong to any athletic conference for any sport at all. The reason for independent status varies among institutions, but it is frequently because the school's primary athletic conference does not sponsor a particular sport.
The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III which is located in the Midwestern and Southern United States. There are 10 full member institutions as of the 2023–24 academic year.
The American Midwest Conference (AMC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) with 12 member institutions located in Arkansas and Missouri in the United States.
The Saint Louis Billikens are the collegiate athletic teams that represent Saint Louis University, located in St. Louis, Missouri. The Billikens compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference. The school has nationally recognized soccer programs for men and women. The school has heavily invested in its on-campus athletic facilities since the 1990s with the creation of Hermann Stadium and Chaifetz Arena. Chris May is the current director of athletics of the St. Louis Billikens.
The Lindenwood Lions and Lady Lions are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Lindenwood University, located in St. Charles, Missouri, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the NCAA Division I ranks, primarily competing in the Ohio Valley Conference for most of its sports since the 2022–23 academic year.
Fontbonne University is a private Catholic university in Clayton, Missouri. Fontbonne University, established in 1923 as Fontbonne College, initially served as a women's college. Fontbonne College became co-educational in the 1970s. Its athletic teams compete in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. In 2023, there were 874 students enrolled.