Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
Norton, MA · private, nonprofit · 1,773 undergraduates
Which tennis teams does Wheaton College (Massachusetts) field?
Wheaton College (Massachusetts), in Norton, MA, fields 2 tennis teams, men's tennis and women's tennis, competing in NCAA Division III as a member of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference.
The men's roster is the larger of the two, 8 players against 7, in the school's latest Equity in Athletics filing.
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)'s men's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 8 players in 2025, down from 10 in 2020. That 2025 roster is well below the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference median of 13, by 38%, and about the same distance from the NCAA Division III median. Wheaton College (Massachusetts) lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for men's tennis, which works out to about 4 players per coach, well below the NCAA Division III median of 5.3, by 25%.
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)'s women's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 7 players in 2025, down from 10 in 2020. That 2025 roster is well below the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference median of 12, by 39%, and about the same distance from the NCAA Division III median. Wheaton College (Massachusetts) lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for women's tennis, which works out to about 3.5 players per coach, well below the NCAA Division III median of 5, by 30%.
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 Wheaton College (Massachusetts) fund its athletes?
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) reported 398 athletes across all sports in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing, 197 men and 201 women, close to an even split.
It reported no athletically related student aid for that year, which is what to expect from NCAA Division III: any help with cost here comes through academic or need-based aid, not a tennis scholarship.
Recruiting spending was $50,304 for men's sports and $61,842 for women's, roughly balanced between the two, or about $255 and $308 per athlete.
What is Wheaton College (Massachusetts) like academically?
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) is a small private, nonprofit college whose highest award is the bachelor's degree that admits 68% of applicants, moderately selective by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
Admitted students' SAT scores average 1308, a profile that puts academic standing ahead of tennis for most recruits here.
The full cost of attendance is around $79,311 a year, well above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $29,822 after grants and scholarships, in the top quarter nationally, so aid covers roughly 62% of the sticker price on average.
73% of students finish their degree within six years, in the top quarter of colleges nationally and 82% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $67,725, among the top quarter of colleges.
What can you study at Wheaton College (Massachusetts)?
No single field dominates: the largest, Biological & Biomedical Sciences, is 19% of degrees, with Business, Management & Marketing, Psychology and others close behind.
The bachelor's degree programs below awarded the most degrees in the most recent College Scorecard field-of-study data.
- Psychology, General (53 degrees)
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (52 degrees)
- Biology, General (31 degrees)
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts (30 degrees)
- English Language and Literature, General (27 degrees)
- Fine and Studio Arts (23 degrees)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (23 degrees)
- Political Science and Government (20 degrees)
- History (17 degrees)
- Sociology (17 degrees)
What is Norton Center, MA like to live in?
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) sits in Norton Center, a suburb of a large city of about 2,526 people in Bristol County, Massachusetts.
The median household in Norton Center earns about $114,051, which is above the Massachusetts median ($101,341) but far above the national median ($78,538).
Housing is where the area is cheapest: a typical owner-occupied home is valued around $418,400, 20% below the Massachusetts median and a typical rent of $1,181 a month is 30% under the state figure.
Getting around is quick: the average commute is 20 minutes against a national average near 27, and driving is common but not universal, though 24% of workers walk and 19% work from home.
It reads as a college town: 33% of residents are 20 to 24, roughly 5.0 times the national share, and the median age of 21 is younger than the country's 39.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Wheaton College (Massachusetts) have a tennis program?
- Yes. Wheaton College (Massachusetts) fields men's tennis (NCAA Division III, New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference) and women's tennis (NCAA Division III, New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference), per its Equity in Athletics filing to the U.S. Department of Education.
- Where is Wheaton College (Massachusetts)?
- Wheaton College (Massachusetts) is in Norton, MA, in the New England region of the United States.
- How much does Wheaton College (Massachusetts) cost?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $79,311 a year, and an average net price of $29,822 after grants and scholarships.