Friends University
Wichita, KS · private, nonprofit · 1,048 undergraduates
Which tennis teams does Friends University field?
Friends University, in Wichita, KS, fields 2 tennis teams, men's tennis and women's tennis, competing in NAIA as a member of the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.
The men's roster is the larger of the two, 10 players against 6, in the school's latest Equity in Athletics filing.
Friends University's men's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 10 players in 2025, down from 14 in 2020. That 2025 roster is in line with the NAIA median of 11, and about the same distance from the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference median. Friends University lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for men's tennis, which works out to about 5 players per coach, well below the NAIA median of 7, by 29%.
Friends University's women's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 6 players in 2025, down from 13 in 2020. That 2025 roster is well below the NAIA median of 9, by 33%, and about the same distance from the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference median. Friends University lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for women's tennis, which works out to about 3 players per coach, well below the NAIA median of 5, by 40%.
Each team page below covers roster size and its trend, coaching staff, spending per player against conference and division medians, and what the school and town are like for a recruit.
How does Friends University fund its athletes?
Friends University reported 713 athletes across all sports in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing, 407 men and 306 women, a roster count that leans heavily male.
Athletically related student aid came to $4,109,123, about $6,119 per male athlete and $5,290 per female athlete across all sports; tennis's share of that is not reported separately, so a recruit should ask the coach directly what a tennis award typically covers.
Recruiting spending was $20,844 for men's sports and $25,462 for women's, roughly balanced between the two, or about $51 and $83 per athlete.
What is Friends University like academically?
Friends University is a small private, nonprofit university offering graduate degrees that admits 55% of applicants, moderately selective by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
Admitted students' SAT scores average 1080.
The full cost of attendance is around $50,482 a year, well above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $27,715 after grants and scholarships, in the top quarter nationally, so aid covers roughly 45% of the sticker price on average.
43% of students finish their degree within six years, below the median of 52% and 65% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $52,113, above the median of $40,747.
What can you study at Friends University?
Business, Management & Marketing is the largest field at 26% of degrees, followed by Liberal Arts & Sciences (12%) and Biological & Biomedical Sciences (11%).
The bachelor's degree programs below awarded the most degrees in the most recent College Scorecard field-of-study data.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (51 degrees)
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (39 degrees)
- Psychology, General (27 degrees)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (16 degrees)
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (15 degrees)
- Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management (15 degrees)
- Accounting and Related Services (11 degrees)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (11 degrees)
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General (8 degrees)
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (8 degrees)
What is Wichita, KS like to live in?
Friends University sits in Wichita, a large city of about 396,000 people in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
Household incomes in Wichita, a median of about $63,072, sit below the Kansas median and likewise below the national one, 20% lower than the country as a whole.
Housing is where the area is cheapest: a typical owner-occupied home is valued around $179,500, 12% below the Kansas median and rents are typical for the state, about $960 a month.
Getting around is quick: the average commute is 19 minutes against a national average near 27, and nearly everyone drives alone.
The age mix is close to the national picture, a median of 36, with 25% under 18 and 15% aged 65 or over.
31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, fewer than the Kansas average of 35%.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Friends University have a tennis program?
- Yes. Friends University fields men's tennis (NAIA, Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) and women's tennis (NAIA, Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference), per its Equity in Athletics filing to the U.S. Department of Education.
- Where is Friends University?
- Friends University is in Wichita, KS, in the Plains region of the United States.
- How much does Friends University cost?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $50,482 a year, and an average net price of $27,715 after grants and scholarships.