List of charter members of the NCAA

The forerunner of the NCAA, the IAAUS, was founded in 1905. At that time, the following 39 schools joined.^[1]

Footnotes[edit]

^ Since 1965, when the original university became a multi-campus system with the opening of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, this school has legally been the University of Colorado Boulder.
^ Legally the University of Missouri–Columbia since the creation of the University of Missouri System in 1963; however, the university only uses its geographic identifier on official documents within the UM System.
^ Since 1968, when the original university became a multi-campus system with its absorption of what is now the University of Nebraska Omaha, this school has legally been the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
^ Since 1963, when the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina became the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, this school's formal name has been University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The term "University of North Carolina" has referred to the state's entire public university system since 1972.

^ Randy R Grant, John C Leadley, Zenon X Zygmont (2015). The Economics of Intercollegiate Sports: Second Edition. ISBN 978-9814583398.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)