
Number of college scholarships by sport and gender 2020
College sports scholarships are available to students at the top of their respective sports and can help them with college tuition fees which otherwise run into the tens of thousands of U.S. dollars. Overall, there were over 177 thousand sports scholarships available to students in 2019/20, with over 7,500 more scholarships available to male athletes than female athletes. Football alone accounted for over 30,000 scholarships in this year.