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Baseball at U.S. colleges

Colleges reported $1.1 billion of baseball revenue in the 2024–25 survey year, according to the Education Department’s athletics disclosures.

1,670 colleges fielded baseball, with 70,573 athletes and $1.2 billion of expenses: 5.5% of the revenue colleges attributed to any sport.

Baseball, 2024–25

1,670
Colleges fielding it
$1.1 billion
Revenue, as reported
$1,146,593,270
Not profit.
$1.2 billion
Expenses, as reported
$1,216,840,346
70,573
Athletes
70,573 men and 0 women.
0.0%
Women’s share of athletes
1,691
Head coaches
4,655
Assistant coaches

Revenue and expenses over time

Colleges reported $1.1 billion of baseball revenue in 2024–⁠25, against $401.3 million in 2008–⁠09, in each year's dollars

Revenue and expenses the colleges attributed to baseball each survey year from 2008–⁠09 to 2024–⁠25, with the colleges that fielded it and its athletes. In each year's dollars.

The colleges that fielded the sport each year, not a fixed set of colleges. An athlete on two teams of the sport is counted on each.

Not adjusted for inflation.

Source: The Education Department’s athletics disclosures

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The figures

Colleges reported $1.1 billion of baseball revenue in 2024–25, against $401.3 million in 2008–09, in each year's dollars. Revenue and expenses the colleges attributed to baseball each survey year from 2008–09 to 2024–25, with the colleges that fielded it and its athletes. In each year's dollars.
Survey yearRevenueExpensesCollegesAthletes
2008–⁠09$401.3 million$474.0 million1,64951,308
2009–⁠10$444.6 million$494.5 million1,65552,388
2010–⁠11$471.7 million$523.4 million1,66152,810
2011–⁠12$517.5 million$560.0 million1,65553,492
2012–⁠13$547.7 million$593.0 million1,66254,402
2013–⁠14$582.7 million$635.5 million1,66455,341
2014–⁠15$606.2 million$673.3 million1,66856,954
2015–⁠16$646.1 million$715.4 million1,66557,337
2016–⁠17$683.8 million$754.6 million1,65858,294
2017–⁠18$721.7 million$795.8 million1,68259,382
2018–⁠19$762.5 million$840.9 million1,67860,122
2019–⁠20$677.2 million$761.3 million1,64760,451
2020–⁠21$742.6 million$771.5 million1,52061,568
2021–⁠22$897.5 million$950.5 million1,64665,878
2022–⁠23$1.0 billion$1.1 billion1,67067,058
2023–⁠24$1.1 billion$1.1 billion1,66868,951
2024–⁠25$1.1 billion$1.2 billion1,67070,573

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The colleges reporting the most baseball revenue

The 25 largest of the 1,670 colleges that reported baseball revenue for 2024–25, with the expenses they attributed to it beside it. Neither column is a measure of profit.

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Colleges by reported baseball revenue, 2024–25
RankCollegeRevenue
1University of Mississippi$11.7 million
2The University of Tennessee-Knoxville$10.3 million
3Vanderbilt University$10.1 million
4Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College$10.1 million
5Texas Christian University$8.2 million
6University of South Carolina-Columbia$8.0 million
7Clemson University$7.7 million
8Mississippi State University$7.6 million
9University of Arizona$7.1 million
10Florida State University$6.9 million
11University of Arkansas$6.8 million
12The University of Alabama$6.7 million
13University of Virginia-Main Campus$6.4 million
14University of Miami$5.9 million
15University of Southern California$5.9 million
16Oregon State University$5.8 million
17Texas A&M University-College Station$5.8 million
18University of Central Florida$5.6 million
19North Carolina State University at Raleigh$5.6 million
20The University of Texas at Austin$5.6 million
21Coastal Carolina University$5.2 million
22University of California-Los Angeles$5.2 million
23Wake Forest University$5.2 million
24University of Kentucky$5.2 million
25Arizona State University Campus Immersion$5.1 million

Every sport side by side: college sports by reported revenue and college sports by athletes. How the figures are made: the method.

Sources

Compiled automatically from Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act data — every varsity team, by college and sport by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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