NCAA transfer portal
Type of site | Student athlete database Compliance tool |
|---|---|
| Owner | National Collegiate Athletic Association |
| Services | Student athlete college transfer |
| URL | https://apps.ncaa.org |
| Registration | Access limited to NCAA members |
| Launched | October 15, 2018 |
The NCAA transfer portal is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) application, database, and compliance tool that facilitates student athletes' transfers between member institutions. It is intended to bring greater transparency to the transfer process and to enable student athletes to publicize their desire to transfer. The transfer portal is an NCAA-wide database covering all three NCAA divisions, although most media coverage of the transfer portal involves its use in the top-level Division I (D-I).
The portal launched on October 15, 2018. Regulations adopted in 2021 allowed student-athletes in D-I football, men's and women's basketball, men's ice hockey, and baseball to transfer schools using the portal once without sitting out a year. In 2024, the NCAA authorized athletes unlimited transfers.