This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

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, such as the College of Charleston.
  • 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

South Dakota

South Dakota State

Full NCAA Division I member colleges in South Dakota.
– FCS Football

Team	School	City	Conference	Sport sponsorship
				Foot- ball	Basketball		Base- ball	Soft- ball	Soccer
					M	W			M	W
South Dakota Coyotes	University of South Dakota	Vermillion	Summit	FCS [lower-alpha 1]
South Dakota State Jackrabbits	South Dakota State University	Brookings	Summit	FCS [lower-alpha 1]

1. 1 2 South Dakota and South Dakota State's football teams compete in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.

Division II

Augustana

Black Hills State

Northern State

South Dakota Mines

Sioux Falls

Full NCAA Division II member colleges in South Dakota.

Team	School	City	Conference	Sport sponsorship
				Foot- ball	Basketball		Base- ball	Soft- ball	Ice hockey		Soccer
					M	W			M	W	M	W
Augustana Vikings	Augustana University	Sioux Falls	Northern Sun						[lower-alpha 1]
Black Hills State Yellow Jackets	Black Hills State University	Spearfish	Rocky Mountain
Northern State Wolves	Northern State University	Aberdeen	Northern Sun
South Dakota Mines Hardrockers	South Dakota School of Mines & Technology	Rapid City	Rocky Mountain
Sioux Falls Cougars	University of Sioux Falls	Sioux Falls	Northern Sun

1. ↑ Augustana's men's ice hockey team competes in Division I as a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

NAIA

Team	School	City	Conference	Sport sponsorship
				Foot- ball	Basketball		Base- ball	Soft- ball	Soccer
					M	W			M	W
Dakota State Trojans	Dakota State University	Madison	North Star
Dakota Wesleyan Tigers	Dakota Wesleyan University	Mitchell	Great Plains
Mount Marty Lancers	Mount Marty University	Yankton	Great Plains

See also

• List of NCAA Division I institutions
• List of NCAA Division II institutions
• List of NCAA Division III institutions
• List of NAIA institutions
• List of USCAA institutions
• List of NCCAA institutions