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Excellent question. The very best universities don't intermingle them... MIT, Caltech, Stanford come to mind. I know MIT has lots of intramural sports, where

by wjy 18y ago

Excellent question. The very best universities don't intermingle them... MIT, Caltech, Stanford come to mind. I know MIT has lots of intramural sports, where the focus is on healthy recreation for students. But they don't have ANY NCAA-style teams.

llimllib 18y ago
but they all have teams, and some of Stanford's are very good, such as their basketball team.
- waldrews 18y ago
  Umm... Caltech sports teams? There's a whole movie, Quantum Hoops, about how we historically never won any game.
  - llimllib 18y ago
    ermmm... yeah I meant stanford's teams are often very good. Edited to make sense.
arockwell 18y ago
This is just not true. MIT competes in Division III and has 41 varsity teams according to wikipedia. I'm not sure if they give out any athletic scholarships.
- tesseract 18y ago
  You can't give athletic scholarships in D3. MIT has one D1 sport, rowing. I'm not sure whether they give athletic scholarships for it, but without bothering to check, I suspect not.
menloparkbum 18y ago
Stanford has one of the country's biggest and most successful NCAA Division 1 athletics programs. "Stanford has won the NACDA Director's Cup for Division I, awarded annually to the college or university with the most success in collegiate athletics, for 14 consecutive years (1994-95 to 2007-08)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Cardinal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Cardinal
blang 18y ago
I'm not really sure as to what you mean by NCAA-style teams. Stanford is actually the school that the sports world points to as the shinning example of excellence in sports not interfering with excellence in academics. In fact last year Stanford Basketball went to the sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament. Before his career as pro-quarterback John Elway was a Stanford student-athlete. Furthermore every university in the academically vaulted Ivy league is also a member of the NCAA Division I.
- gabbro 18y ago
  Tell you what, though: when I chose between Stanford with its athletic program and Caltech with its lack thereof, I considered the athletics a knock against Stanford. I ultimately chose Stanford, but despite the athletics, not because of them. Some people just don't care about sports.

by wjy 18y ago

llimllib 18y ago

but they all have teams, and some of Stanford's are very good, such as their basketball team.

waldrews 18y ago
Umm... Caltech sports teams? There's a whole movie, Quantum Hoops, about how we historically never won any game.
- llimllib 18y ago
  ermmm... yeah I meant stanford's teams are often very good. Edited to make sense.

arockwell 18y ago

This is just not true. MIT competes in Division III and has 41 varsity teams according to wikipedia. I'm not sure if they give out any athletic scholarships.

tesseract 18y ago
You can't give athletic scholarships in D3. MIT has one D1 sport, rowing. I'm not sure whether they give athletic scholarships for it, but without bothering to check, I suspect not.

menloparkbum 18y ago

Stanford has one of the country's biggest and most successful NCAA Division 1 athletics programs. "Stanford has won the NACDA Director's Cup for Division I, awarded annually to the college or university with the most success in collegiate athletics, for 14 consecutive years (1994-95 to 2007-08)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Cardinal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Cardinal

blang 18y ago

I'm not really sure as to what you mean by NCAA-style teams. Stanford is actually the school that the sports world points to as the shinning example of excellence in sports not interfering with excellence in academics. In fact last year Stanford Basketball went to the sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament. Before his career as pro-quarterback John Elway was a Stanford student-athlete. Furthermore every university in the academically vaulted Ivy league is also a member of the NCAA Division I.

gabbro 18y ago
Tell you what, though: when I chose between Stanford with its athletic program and Caltech with its lack thereof, I considered the athletics a knock against Stanford. I ultimately chose Stanford, but despite the athletics, not because of them. Some people just don't care about sports.