Colby College
Investment & Impact
| Men's tennis expenses | $193,682 |
|---|---|
| Women's tennis expenses | $157,563 |
How much does Colby College spend on men's tennis?
Colby College reported $193,682 in total men's tennis expenses in the 2025 EADA survey, ranking #384 of 962 men's tennis programs nationally. Figures are school-reported to the U.S. Department of Education.
Does Colby College offer athletic scholarships for men's athletes?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Colby College's athletically related student aid averaged about $0 per men's athlete across all men's sports. Aid is reported at the school level, not per team.
How much does Colby College spend on recruiting men's athletes?
Colby College reported $98,667 in total recruiting expenses for men's teams in the 2025 EADA survey (school-wide, all men's sports).
How does Colby College's spending compare between men's and women's tennis?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Colby College reported $193,682 in total men's tennis expenses and $157,563 in total women's tennis expenses.
Can college athletes in Maine earn NIL money?
Maine's college NIL law (LD 1893, signed March 31, 2022) protects college athletes' right to earn NIL compensation. (Verified 2026-06-11; source: https://mpaprof.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/MPA-Handbook.pdf.)
Public DOE EADA filing, 2025 survey · figures are school-reported
How big is the Colby College men's tennis roster?
Colby College listed 12 players on its men's tennis roster in its 2025 filing, in line with the New England Small College Athletic Conference median of 12.
Colby College's men's tennis roster has moved around, as low as 10 in 2024 and as high as 14 in 2022, and ended 2025 at 12.
| Survey year | Players | Coaches |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 12 | 2 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2 |
| 2022 | 14 | 2 |
| 2023 | 11 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 1 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2 |
How many coaches does Colby College men's tennis have?
Colby College lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for men's tennis, which works out to about 6 players per coach, 13% above the NCAA Division III median of 5.3.
More players per coach generally means practice time is shared more widely and an assistant or volunteer coach carries more of the day-to-day work.
What does Colby College spend on men's tennis?
Colby College reported $193,682 in total men's tennis expenses for 2025, 213% above the NCAA Division III median of $61,890.
Day-to-day operating spending on the men's team came to about $4,320 per player in 2025, well above the NCAA Division III median of $1,918, by 125%.
Against the New England Small College Athletic Conference median it is 12% below the New England Small College Athletic Conference median of $4,927.
Recruiting spending, which EADA reports for all men's sports at the school together rather than for tennis alone, was about $252 per male athlete in 2025, well above the NCAA Division III median of $120, by 109%.
Total men's tennis expenses rose 98% between 2020 and 2025, from $97,629 to $193,682.
NCAA Division III programs do not award athletic scholarships; aid at this level is academic and need-based.
What is Colby College like academically?
Colby College is a mid-sized private, nonprofit college whose highest award is the bachelor's degree that admits 7% of applicants, highly selective by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
Admitted students' SAT scores average 1501, a profile that puts academic standing ahead of tennis for most recruits here.
The full cost of attendance is around $85,420 a year, well above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $17,180 after grants and scholarships, in the below the median nationally, so aid covers roughly 80% of the sticker price on average.
89% of students finish their degree within six years, in the top quarter of colleges nationally and 94% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $80,490, among the top quarter of colleges.
What can you study at Colby College?
Social Sciences is the largest field at 29% of degrees, followed by Psychology (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; a recruit should ask the coach how practice and travel fit around a specific major’s lab or clinical hours.
- Economics (89 degrees)
- Political Science and Government (76 degrees)
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research (52 degrees)
- Computer Science (45 degrees)
- International/Globalization Studies (42 degrees)
- Psychology, General (41 degrees)
- Biology, General (38 degrees)
- History (27 degrees)
- Neurobiology and Neurosciences (27 degrees)
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (25 degrees)
What is Waterville, ME like to live in?
Colby College sits in Waterville, a remote town of about 17,000 people in Kennebec County, Maine.
Household incomes in Waterville, a median of about $47,489, sit far below the Maine median and likewise far below the national one, 40% lower than the country as a whole.
Housing is where the area is cheapest: a typical owner-occupied home is valued around $173,700, 35% below the Maine median and a typical rent of $957 a month is 12% under the state figure.
Getting around is quick: the average commute is 17 minutes against a national average near 27, and most people drive, though 9% of workers walk and 16% work from home.
It reads as a college town: 13% of residents are 20 to 24, roughly 2.0 times the national share, and the median age of 35 is younger than the country's 39.
What other teams does Colby College field?
Colby College also fields one other team with a public profile here.
Program Info
| Division | NCAA Division III |
|---|---|
| Conference | New England Small College Athletic Conference |
| Sport | Men's Tennis |
| Location | Waterville, ME |
| Enrollment | 2,407 |
| Type | private-nonprofit |
| Highest degree | Bachelor's |
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Colby College have a men's tennis team?
- Yes. Colby College fields a NCAA Division III men's tennis team in the New England Small College Athletic Conference and reported 12 players in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing.
- What division is Colby College men's tennis?
- Colby College competes in NCAA Division III in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. NCAA Division III programs do not award athletic scholarships; aid at this level is academic and need-based.
- How does the Colby College men's tennis roster compare with other New England Small College Athletic Conference programs?
- With 12 players in 2025, Colby College is in line with the New England Small College Athletic Conference median of 12, based on 10 New England Small College Athletic Conference programs that reported men's tennis that year.
- How many coaches does the Colby College men's tennis team have?
- 2 on the 2025 filing (1 head, 1 assistant), about 6 players per coach, 13% above the NCAA Division III median of 5.3.
- How much does it cost to attend Colby College?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $85,420 a year, and an average net price of $17,180 after grants and scholarships. Athletic aid, where the division allows it, comes on top of that and varies by recruit.
- Where is Colby College?
- Colby College is in Waterville, ME, in the New England region, in what the Department of Education classes as a town.
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