Best Colleges for Swimming & Diving Recruiting 2026

31 colleges with Swimming & Diving programs, ranked by program strength using 2025-26 NCAA performance data.

Top Swimming & Diving Programs

1. 1. The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX (score 99)
2. 2. University of Virginia-Main Campus — Charlottesville, VA (score 98)
3. 3. Stanford University — Stanford, CA (score 96)
4. 4. University of Florida — Gainesville, FL (score 95)
5. 5. University of California-Berkeley — Berkeley, CA (score 94)
6. 6. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI (score 93)
7. 7. Arizona State University Campus Immersion — Tempe, AZ (score 92)
8. 8. University of California-Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA (score 91)
9. 9. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC (score 90)
10. 10. Ohio State University-Main Campus — Columbus, OH (score 90)
11. 11. Texas A&M University-College Station — College Station, TX (score 90)
12. 12. Indiana University-Bloomington — Bloomington, IN (score 90)
13. 13. University of Georgia — Athens, GA (score 90)
14. 14. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville — Knoxville, TN (score 90)
15. 15. Auburn University — Auburn, AL (score 90)
16. 16. Cornell College — Mount Vernon, IA (score 89)
17. 17. University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI (score 88)
18. 18. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities — Minneapolis, MN (score 87)
19. 19. Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA (score 86)
20. 20. Cornell University — Ithaca, NY (score 85)
21. 21. Duke University — Durham, NC (score 84)
22. 22. Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN (score 82)
23. 23. Princeton University — Princeton, NJ (score 80)
24. 24. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL (score 78)
25. 25. Yale University — New Haven, CT (score 76)
26. 26. Harvard University — Cambridge, MA (score 74)
27. 27. Purdue University-Main Campus — West Lafayette, IN (score 72)
28. 28. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Atlanta, GA (score 70)
29. 29. University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA (score 68)
30. 30. Northwestern University — Evanston, IL (score 66)
31. 31. California Institute of Technology — Pasadena, CA (score 60)

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