Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference
Established	1896
Association	NCAA
Division	Division I FBS
Members	11 (12 in 2011)
Sports fielded	25 (men's: 12; women's: 13)
Region	Midwestern United States Mid-Atlantic United States (Penn State)
Former names	Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives Big Nine Western Conference
Headquarters	Park Ridge, Illinois
Commissioner	James Delany (since 1989)
Website	http://www.bigten.org/
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The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its eleven member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from the upper MIMAL states in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. 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. Member schools of the Big Ten also are members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a leading educational consortium. Despite the conference's name, since Penn State joined in 1990, there have been 11 schools in the Big Ten. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will join the conference as its 12th member effective July 1, 2011; the name of the conference will remain unchanged.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, which shares a $5.6 billion research fund.

Institution	Location (Population)	Founded	Joined Big Ten	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	Varsity Teams	NCAA Championships (As of May 21, 2010)[1] (excludes football)	Big Ten Championships (As of Spring 2009)[2]
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	Urbana (41,250) and Champaign, Illinois (81,055)	1867	1896	Public	41,918	Fighting Illini	21	17	228
Indiana University	Bloomington, Indiana (69,291)	1820	1899 (Athletics 1900)	Public	42,646	Hoosiers	24	23	162
University of Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa (67,062)	1847	1899 (Athletics 1900)	Public	30,825	Hawkeyes	24	25	104
University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, Michigan (114,024)	1817	1896 (Inactive 1907–1916)	Public	41,924 [3]	Wolverines	27	33	347
Michigan State University	East Lansing, Michigan (46,525)	1855	1950 (Athletics 1953)	Public	47,131	Spartans	25	19	81
University of Minnesota	Minneapolis, Minnesota (388,020)	1851	1896	Public	51,721[4]	Golden Gophers	23	15	154
University of Nebraska–Lincoln [5]	Lincoln, Nebraska (251,624)	1869	2011	Public	24,610	Cornhuskers	21	23	0
Northwestern University	Evanston, Illinois (74,239)	1851	1896	Private	16,475	Wildcats	19	6	69
Ohio State University	Columbus, Ohio (747,755)	1870	1912	Public	64,077[6]	Buckeyes	35	21	185
Pennsylvania State University	University Park, Pennsylvania (38,420)	1855	1990 (Athletics 1993)	Public	44,817*[7]	Nittany Lions	29	38	50
Purdue University	West Lafayette, Indiana (28,778)	1869	1896	Public	39,726	Boilermakers	18	4	67
University of Wisconsin–Madison	Madison, Wisconsin (223,389)	1848	1896	Public	42,099 [8]	Badgers	23	27	180

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