Tennis Scholarship

College tennis has the highest percentage of international athletes competing in an NCAA sponsored sport. In 2017, 34.3 percent of men’s tennis players competing at the NCAA Division 1 level were international athletes. When a men's NCAA Division 1 and Division 2 tennis program is fully funded, college coaches have a maximum of 4.5 full-ride equivalent scholarships to award. These full-rides are generally reserved for international athletes. Division 3 and Ivy League schools do not offer athletic scholarships. Instead, recruits can look to academic scholarships for financial funding. D1 and D2 programs have an average team size of 10 athletes. Whilst D1 men's Tennis has 255 programs, D2 has 163. There are also 107 NAIA men's tennis programs and 82 JUCO tennis programs that offer 9 scholarships.

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When an NCAA Division 1 women’s tennis programs is fully funded, the coach can offer full-ride scholarships to a maximum of eight athletes; there are 317 D1 women's programs. For fully funded Division 2 programs, college coaches can offer a maximum of six full-ride equivalent scholarships; there are 167 D2 women's programs. Full rides are more common at the Division 1 level although both D1 and D2 have an average team size of 9 athletes. The NAIA does not limit the number of scholarships a program can award for women's tennis and there are 115 programs offering scholarships with an average team size of 9 also. Lastly, there are 79 JUCO programs offering a max of 9 women's tennis scholarships per program with an average team size of 7.

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