This is a list of college athletic programs in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Notes:
- This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
- Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
- Full name of school.
- Location of school.
- Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
- Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
- Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools, such as Boston College and Boston University, or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school (formerly the case for the College of Charleston, but media now use "Charleston" for that school's athletic program).
- Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name "University of North Carolina" may variously be found at "C" (Charlotte), "N" (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and "U" (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
- The prefix "St.", as in "Saint", is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.
NCAA
Division I
- Duquesne's football team competes in the Northeast Conference.
- Mercyhurst's men's and women's ice hockey teams compete in Atlantic Hockey America.
- Penn additionally fields a team in sprint football, a weight-restricted form of football not governed by the NCAA, as a member of the Collegiate Sprint Football League.
- The women's basketball team uses "Lady Lions"; all other women's teams use "Nittany Lions".
- Penn State's women's ice hockey team competes in Atlantic Hockey America.
- Robert Morris's football team competes in the Northeast Conference.
- Villanova's football team competes in CAA Football, the technically separate football league operated by the all-sports Coastal Athletic Association.
Division II
- Chestnut Hill and Mansfield field teams in sprint football, a weight-restricted form of football not governed by the NCAA, as a member of the Collegiate Sprint Football League.
- The U.S. Postal Service considers Lincoln University to be its own entity, separate from the nearest borough of Oxford.
- Lincoln's baseball and women's soccer teams compete in the East Coast Conference.
- As of the 2025–26 academic year, Point Park is in the second year of a three-year transition to Division II and will become an active Division II member in 2027–28.
Division III
Albright
Allegheny
Alvernia
Carlow
Carnegie Mellon
Cedar Crest
Chatham
DeSales
Dickinson
Etown
F&M
Geneva
Gettysburg
Grove City
Juniata
Keystone
King's
La Roche
LBC
LVC
Lycoming
Marywood
Messiah
Misericodia
Moravian
Mount Aloysius
Muhlenburg
Penn College
PS Altoona
PS Behrend
PS Berks
PS Harrisburg
Pitt Bradford
Pitt Greensburg
Scranton
St. Vincent
Susquehanna
Theil
W&J
Waynesburg
Westminster
Wilkes
Wilson
York
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4.3miles
Arcadia
Widener
Valley Forge
Ursinus
Swarthmore
Rosemont
PS Brandywine
PS Abington
Neumann
Immaculata
Haverford
Gwynned Mercy
Eastern
Delaware Valley
Cairn
Bryn Mawr
Full NCAA Division III member colleges in Pennsylvania (Greater Philadelphia Area only).
- Football, - Non-football, - Non-football (Closing)
- Football, 
- Non-football, 
- Non-football (Closing)- The men's and women's ice hockey teams of Arcadia, Chatham, King's, Lebanon Valley, and Neumann, as well as the men's ice hockey team of Wilkes and the women's team of Alvernia, compete in the United Collegiate Hockey Conference.
- Carnegie Mellon's football team competes in the Presidents' Athletic Conference.
- Eastern additionally fields a women's flag football team; Eastern is an associate member of the Atlantic East for flag football.
- Immaculata and Neumann field women's flag football teams.
- Keystone's football team competes in the Landmark Conference.
- Wilkes's women's ice hockey team competes as an independent.