The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the main topics of discussion. On January 11, 1895, the presidents of University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Northwestern University, Purdue University and Lake Forest College met in Chicago to discuss the regulation and control of intercollegiate athletics. The Big Ten sponsors the following 25 sports: Data provided by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute as of June 30, 2010.Lake Forest College attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but did not join it.The University of Chicago was a co-founder of the conference and still maintains affiliation through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.Maryland ! University of Maryland, College Park University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign NCAA Championships (As of September 1, 2011) īig Ten Championships (As of December 2011) See also: List of Big Ten National Championshipsīig Ten institutions are also, along with charter member the University of Chicago, part of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, which shares a $5.6 billion research fund. It is not to be confused with the Big 12 Conference, which, paradoxically, has only ten schools and represents a different region of the country. Member schools of the Big Ten also are members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a leading educational consortium.ĭespite the conference's name, the Big 10 actually consists of fourteen schools, following the addition of Pennsylvania State University in 1993 and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2011. The conference competes in the NCAA's Division I its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport. Its fourteen member institutions (which are primarily flagship research universities in their respective states, well-regarded academically, and with relatively large student enrollment) are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Nebraska in the west to New Jersey in the east, and from Maryland in the south to Minnesota in the north. The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference.
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