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The '''Big Ten Conference''' is the [[United States]]' oldest Division I [[college]] [[Sport|athletic]] [[conference]]. Most of its 18 member institutions are in the [[Midwest]]ern [[United States]]. The conference footprint expanded to the country's [[West Coast of the United States|Pacific coast]] in 2024.

==Members==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Institution
!Location
!Founded
!Joined Conference
!Affiliation
!Enrollment
!Nickname
!Varsity Teams
!NCAA Championships (as of January 1, 2014) <ref name="ncaachampionships">{{cite web|url = https://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html|title = How many NCAA Division I championships has your school won?|publisher = National Collegiate Athletic Association|accessdate = 2014-03-05|archive-date = 2008-04-19|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080419050813/http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html|url-status = dead}}</ref> <br /><small>(excludes football)</small>
|-
|[[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]
|[[Urbana, Illinois|Urbana]] and [[Champaign, Illinois]]
|1867
|1896
|Public
|42,728
|Fighting Illini
|21
|18
|-
|[[Indiana University Bloomington]]
|[[Bloomington, Indiana]]
|1820
|1899<br>(Athletics 1900)
|Public
|39,990
|Hoosiers
|24
|24
|-
|[[University of Iowa]]
|[[Iowa City, Iowa]]
|1848
|1899<br>(Athletics 1900)
|Public
|30,409
|Hawkeyes
|24
|25
|-
| <span style="display:none">Maryland</span>[[University of Maryland|University of Maryland, College Park]]
| [[College Park, Maryland]]
| 1856
| 2014
| Public
| 37,631
| [[Turtle|Terrapins]]
| 20
| 25
|-
|[[University of Michigan]]
|[[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
|1817
|1896 <br>Inactive <br> 1907-1916
|Public
|40,025
|[[Wolverine]]s
|27
|35
|-
|[[Michigan State University]]
|[[East Lansing, Michigan]]
|1855
|1950 <br>(Athletics 1953)
|Public
|45,520
|Spartans
|25
|19
|-
|[[University of Minnesota]]
|[[Minneapolis]] and [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]]
|1851
|1896
|Public
|51,194
|| [[Minnesota Golden Gophers|Golden Gophers]]
|23
|17
|-
|[[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]]
|[[Lincoln, Nebraska]]
|1869
|2011
|Public
|24,593
|Cornhuskers
|21
|17
|-
|[[Northwestern University]]
|[[Evanston, Illinois]]
|1851
|1896
|Private/Non-[[sectarian]]
|13,407
| [[Bobcat|Wildcats]]
|19
|8
|-
|[[Ohio State University]]
|[[Columbus, Ohio]]
|1870
|1912
|Public
|52,568
|[[Buckeye]]s
|35
|25
|-
|[[Pennsylvania State University]]
|[[Penn State University Park|University Park, Pennsylvania]]
|1855
|1990 <br>(Athletics 1993)
|Public
|42,914*<ref name="psuenrollment">Includes only University Park campus.  {{cite web|url = http://www.budget.psu.edu/FactBookConversion/StudentDynamic/UGEnrollSummary.aspx?YearCode=2007Enr|title = Undergraduate Enrollment by Level|publisher = Penn State Bursar|accessdate = 2008-07-04|archive-date = 2007-11-13|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071113053640/http://www.budget.psu.edu/FactBookConversion/StudentDynamic/UGEnrollSummary.aspx?YearCode=2007Enr|url-status = dead}}</ref>
| [[Puma|Nittany Lions]] (Lady Lions for women's basketball only)
|31
|43
|-
|[[Purdue University]]
|[[West Lafayette, Indiana]]
|1869
|1896
|Public
|39,333
|Boilermakers
|18
|3
|-
| [[Rutgers University]]
| [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]] and [[Piscataway, New Jersey]]
| 1766
| 2014
| Public
| 41,565
| Scarlet Knights
| 27
| 1
|-
|[[University of Wisconsin-Madison|University of Wisconsin]]
|[[Madison, Wisconsin]]
|1848
|1896
|Public
|41,466
|[[Badger]]s
|23
|28
|}

== Newest members ==
The Big Ten added four members after the 2023–24 school year, all from the [[Pac-12 Conference]].
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Institution
!Location
!Founded
!Joining Conference
!Affiliation
!Enrollment
!Nickname
!Varsity Teams
!NCAA Championships (as of 2022–23) <ref name="ncaachampionships">{{cite web|url = https://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html|title = How many NCAA Division I championships has your school won?|publisher = National Collegiate Athletic Association|accessdate = 2014-03-05|archive-date = 2008-04-19|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080419050813/http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html|url-status = dead}}</ref> <br /><small>(excludes football)</small>
|-
| [[University of Oregon]]
| [[Eugene, Oregon]]
| 1876
| 2024
| Public
| 23,202
| Ducks
| 20
| 34
|-
| [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA)
| [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]]
| 1919
| 2024
| Public
| 45,900
| Bruins
| 25
| 121
|-
| [[University of Southern California]] (USC)
| [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]]
| 1880
| 2024
| Private
| 49,500
| Trojans
| 23
| 112
|-
| [[University of Washington]]
| [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]]
| 1861
| 2024
| Public
| 49,522
| Huskies
| 22
| 9
|}

===Associate members===
The Big Ten gained its first "associate member"—i.e., a school playing only a small number of sports (in this case, one) in the conference—in 2014. The same school brought a second sport into the Big Ten in 2016. A second school became an associate member in 2017.
{| class="wikitable sortable"  style="text-align:center; width:100%;"
|-
! School !! Location !! Founded !! Joined !! Type<br>(affiliation) !! Enrollment !! Nickname !! Big Ten<br>sports !! Main Conference
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Johns Hopkins University]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Baltimore|Baltimore, Maryland]]
| rowspan=2 | 1876
| 2014
| rowspan=2 | Private<br>(nonsectarian)
| rowspan=2 | 5,066
| rowspan=2 | Blue Jays
| {{sortname|Men's|lacrosse|nolink=y}}
| rowspan=2 | [[Centennial Conference]] (Div. III)
|-
| 2016
| {{sortname|Women's|lacrosse|nolink=y}}
|-
| {{sort|Notre Dame|[[University of Notre Dame]]}}
| [[Notre Dame, Indiana]]
| 1842
| 2017
| Private<br>(Catholic)
| 11,773
| Fighting Irish
| {{sortname|Men's|ice hockey|nolink=y}}
| [[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]]
|}

== References ==
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