Southwestern College
Winfield, KS · private, nonprofit · 924 undergraduates
Which tennis teams does Southwestern College field?
Southwestern College, in Winfield, KS, fields 2 tennis teams, men's tennis and women's tennis, competing in NAIA as a member of the Southern Athletic Association and the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.
The men's roster is the larger of the two, 6 players against 1, in the school's latest Equity in Athletics filing.
Southwestern College's men's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 6 players in 2025, down from 18 in 2020. That 2025 roster is well below the Southern Athletic Association median of 13, by 54%, and about the same distance from the NAIA median. Southwestern College lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for men's tennis, which works out to about 3 players per coach, well below the NAIA median of 7, by 57%.
Southwestern College's women's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 1 players in 2025, down from 18 in 2020. That 2025 roster is well below the Southern Athletic Association median of 11, by 91%, and about the same distance from the NAIA median. Southwestern College lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for women's tennis, which works out to about 0.5 players per coach, well below the Southern Athletic Association median of 5.1, by 90%.
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 Southwestern College fund its athletes?
Southwestern College reported 443 athletes across all sports in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing, 327 men and 116 women, a roster count that leans heavily male.
Athletically related student aid came to $4,663,000, about $10,891 per male athlete and $9,498 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 $26,631 for men's sports and $9,237 for women's, tilted toward the men's side, or about $81 and $80 per athlete.
What is Southwestern College like academically?
Southwestern College is a small private, nonprofit university offering graduate degrees that admits 76% of applicants, moderately selective by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
The full cost of attendance is around $58,432 a year, well above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $29,824 after grants and scholarships, in the top quarter nationally, so aid covers roughly 49% of the sticker price on average.
41% of undergraduates receive federal Pell grants, a sign the school enrolls many families with limited income.
36% of students finish their degree within six years, in the bottom quarter nationally and 56% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $55,646, among the top quarter of colleges.
What can you study at Southwestern College?
Business, Management & Marketing is the largest field at 39% of degrees, followed by Computer & Information Sciences (14%) and Homeland Security & Law Enforcement (10%).
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 (97 degrees)
- Computer Programming (36 degrees)
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (21 degrees)
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (18 degrees)
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (18 degrees)
- Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other (16 degrees)
- Health/Medical Preparatory Programs (15 degrees)
- Psychology, General (14 degrees)
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (14 degrees)
- Computer Science (13 degrees)
What is Winfield, KS like to live in?
Southwestern College sits in Winfield, a town well outside any metro area of about 12,000 people in Cowley County, Kansas.
The median household in Winfield earns about $58,140, which is below the Kansas median ($72,639) but far below the national median ($78,538).
Housing is where the area is cheapest: a typical owner-occupied home is valued around $121,200, 40% below the Kansas median and a typical rent of $770 a month is 25% under the state figure.
Getting around is quick: the average commute is 18 minutes against a national average near 27, and most people drive.
The age mix is close to the national picture, a median of 39, with 21% under 18 and 21% aged 65 or over.
29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, fewer than the Kansas average of 35%.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Southwestern College have a tennis program?
- Yes. Southwestern College fields men's tennis (NAIA, Southern Athletic Association) and women's tennis (NAIA, Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference), per its Equity in Athletics filing to the U.S. Department of Education.
- Where is Southwestern College?
- Southwestern College is in Winfield, KS, in the Plains region of the United States.
- How much does Southwestern College cost?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $58,432 a year, and an average net price of $29,824 after grants and scholarships.