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2023 Top Kentucky Women's D2 Basketball Schools

Student athletes have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Colleges for Division II Women's Basketball in Kentucky ranking - to help you make that decision.

We analyzed 3 colleges and universities across Kentucky to determine which were the best for D2 Women's Basketball athletes in Kentucky. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the athletic competitiveness of the school and the school's overall quality. This means that a school must provide students with a great education in addition to having a good sports team if it wants to rank well.

Get more details on our ranking methodology.

Customizing Your List

We know that one set of rankings doesn't always help you determine the best school for you, so we've created the ability to narrow your list by location as well as alternative rankings that prioritize different factors such as those of importance to online students or returning adults or those who value diversity and value for your money.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you're torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Top Colleges in Kentucky for D2 Women's Basketball athletes in Kentucky

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Bellarmine University
Louisville, Kentucky

#5 in Quality in Kentucky

$1,346,150 Team Revenue

$45,630 Avg Tuition & Fees

Bellarmine University tops this year’s ranking as the best school for D2 Women’s Basketball athletes in Kentucky. Bellarmine U is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Louisville, Kentucky. It awarded 660 bachelor’s degrees in . The D2 Women’s Basketball team at Bellarmine U brought home $1,346,150 in revenue in a single year. Bellarmine U also took the #5 spot in our overall quality rankings. Full Bellarmine University Sports Report

2

Kentucky Wesleyan College
Owensboro, Kentucky

#20 in Quality in Kentucky

$642,553 Team Revenue

$31,300 Avg Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Kentucky Wesleyan College landed the #2 spot on the list. Wesleyan is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Owensboro, Kentucky. It awarded 165 bachelor’s degrees in . The D2 Women’s Basketball team at Wesleyan made $642,553 in revenue, while incurring $623,846 in expenses. Happily, this means that the team turned a profit of $18,707. Read More…

3

Kentucky State University
Frankfort, Kentucky

$381,157 Team Revenue

$12,932 Avg Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend Kentucky State University. The school came in at #3 in this year’s ranking. Frankfort, Kentucky is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 150 students in . On the financial side of things, the D2 Women’s Basketball team at KY State made $381,157 in revenue. Full Kentucky State University Sports Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 3 schools only.

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Revenue and expense information comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics Data Analysis (EADA) website.
• The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.