List of college athletic programs in Connecticut
This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
| Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foot- ball |
Basketball | Base- ball |
Soft- ball |
Ice hockey | Soccer | |||||||
| M | W | M | W | M | W | |||||||
| Central Connecticut Blue Devils | Central Connecticut State University | New Britain | Northeast | FCS | ||||||||
| Connecticut Huskies[a] | University of Connecticut | Storrs | Big East | FBS[b] | ||||||||
| Fairfield Stags | Fairfield University | Fairfield | MAAC | |||||||||
| New Haven Chargers | University of New Haven[d] | West Haven | Northeast | FCS | ||||||||
| Quinnipiac Bobcats | Quinnipiac University | Hamden | MAAC | |||||||||
| Sacred Heart Pioneers | Sacred Heart University | Fairfield | MAAC | FCS[f] | ||||||||
| Yale Bulldogs | Yale University | New Haven | Ivy League | FCS | ||||||||
- ^ While national media use "Connecticut" in score listings and standings, the short form of "UConn" is widely used as well.
- ^ Connecticut's football team competes as an independent.
- ^ a b Connecticut's ice hockey teams compete in Hockey East.
- ^ As of the 2025–26 academic year, New Haven is in the first year of a three-year transition to Division I and will be an active member in 2028–29.
- ^ a b c d Quinnipiac and Yale's men's and women's ice hockey teams all compete in ECAC Hockey.
- ^ Sacred Heart's football team competes as an independent.
- ^ Sacred Heart's men's ice hockey team competes in Atlantic Hockey America.
- ^ Sacred Heart's women's ice hockey team competes in the New England Women's Hockey Alliance.
| Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foot- ball |
Basketball | Base- ball |
Soft- ball |
Ice hockey | Soccer | |||||||
| M | W | M | W | M | W | |||||||
| Bridgeport Purple Knights | University of Bridgeport | Bridgeport | Central Atlantic | |||||||||
| Post Eagles | Post University | Waterbury | Central Atlantic | |||||||||
| Southern Connecticut Owls | Southern Connecticut State University | New Haven | Northeast-10 | |||||||||
- ^ Post's football team competes in the Northeast-10 Conference as an affiliate.
- ^ Post's men's ice hockey team competes as an affiliate in the Northeast-10 Conference.
- ^ Post's women's ice hockey team competes in Division I as a member of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance.
- ^ Albertus Magnus's men's ice hockey team competes as an independent.
- ^ Albertus Magnus;s women's ice hockey team competes in the NCHA.
- ^ Western Connecticut's football team competes in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference.
| Team | School | City | Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Lions | Gateway Community College | New Haven | Massachusetts CC |
| UConn–Avery Point Pointers | University of Connecticut at Avery Point | Groton | Massachusetts CC |