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List of NCAA Division I men's soccer programs

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This is a list of men's college soccer programs in the United States, that play in NCAA Division I. As of the 2016 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, 206 schools in the United States sponsor Division I varsity men's soccer; 202 of these schools are full Division I members. Three are in transition from Division II to Division I, and one is a Division III school.(See † note below) This list reflects each team's conference affiliation as of the 2016 season.

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Current Division I schools

  • ¶ = Schools in transition from Division II to Division I,
  • † = Prior to the introduction of Division II men's soccer in 1972, all schools competed in one division. All Division II and III schools moved into Division II in 1972, but a number of schools that desired to compete at a higher level returned to Division I in 1973 and were allowed to grant the same number of scholarships as full Division I schools (15 at that time versus 9.9 today). Hartwick College, a Division III school, was one of those schools that returned to Division I in 1973, and the school won the 1977 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. In 2004, Hartwick was one of eight Division III schools allowed under the NCAA's Proposal 65-1 to maintain their one traditional Division I sport (along with one women's sport). (Two of the eight have since moved those sports to Division III.) Although three schools are in transition from Division II to Division I, Hartwick is now the only true non-Division I school playing Division I men's soccer.

    • Scheduled additions

    Two schools are currently scheduled to add men's soccer to their athletic programs. A third school that currently sponsors men's soccer at the Division II level has announced that it will transition to Division I in the near future.

  • ‡ = Chicago State was expected to add men's soccer by 2014. The school eventually budgeted the sport for the 2016–17 school year. However, the ongoing State of Illinois budgetary crisis and the school's own critical financial problems have set this back once more. With the school's current financial situation and the needs of the athletic program, in April 2016, the University Budget Committee recommended that the Athletic Department "... study the benefits of being Division 1 or another division."

    • References

    List of NCAA Division I men's soccer programs Wikipedia
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