Mid-American Conference
Institution Location Founded Joined Type Enrollment Nickname Primary Conference MAC Sport ( s )
Appalachian State University Boone , North Carolina 1899 2017 Public 19,089 Mountaineers Sun Belt Field hockey
Binghamton University Vestal , New York 1946 2014 Public 16,098 Bearcats America East Men 's tennis
University of Evansville Evansville , Indiana 1854 2009 Private 3,050 Purple Aces Missouri Valley Men 's swimming
Longwood University Farmville , Virginia 1839 2014 Public 4,800 Lancers Big South Field hockey
University of Missouri Columbia , Missouri 1839 2012 Public 34,255 Tigers SEC Wrestling
Missouri State University Springfield , Missouri 1905 2009 Public 21,425 Bears Missouri Valley Men 's swimming
Old Dominion University Norfolk , Virginia 1930 2013 Public 24,730 Monarchs C-USA Wrestling
Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale , Illinois 1869 2009 Public 17,964 Salukis Missouri Valley Men 's swimming
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Edwardsville , Illinois 1957 2017 ( soccer ) 2018 ( wrestling ) Public 14,142 Cougars Ohio Valley Men 's soccer Wrestling
West Virginia University Morgantown , West Virginia 1867 2012 Public 29,616 Mountaineers Big 12 Men 's soccer
Rider University Lawrenceville , New Jersey 1865 2019 Private 5,400 Broncs MAAC Wrestling
George Mason University Fairfax County , Virginia 1957 2019 Public 35,047 Patriots Atlantic 10 Wrestling
Cleveland State University Cleveland , Ohio 1964 2019 Public 17,260 Vikings Horizon League Wrestling
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg , Pennsylvania 1839 2019 Public 9,950 Huskies PSAC ( Division II ) Wrestling
Clarion University of Pennsylvania Clarion , Pennsylvania 1867 2019 Public 5,225 Golden Eagles PSAC ( Division II ) Wrestling
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Edinboro , Pennsylvania 1857 2019 Public 4,834 Fighting Scots PSAC ( Division II ) Wrestling
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Lock Haven , Pennsylvania 1870 2019 Public 4,607 Bald Eagles PSAC ( Division II ) Wrestling
Member schools -- Current affiliate members
Seventeen schools have MAC affiliate membership status . On July 1 , 2012 , Temple joined the Big East Conference for football only ( the school 's other sports would join the Big East/American for 2013–14 ) , and Massachusetts replaced Temple as a football-only member in the MAC East Division . On September 19 , 2012 , the MAC announced Missouri , Northern Iowa and Old Dominion would join as wrestling affiliates ; as the Southeastern and Missouri Valley Conferences do not sponsor wrestling . Missouri and Northern Iowa participated only in the conference tournament in the 2012–13 school year , and began full conference play in 2013–14 . Old Dominion did not begin MAC competition until 2013–14 , when it left the Colonial Athletic Association ( which had sponsored wrestling , but no longer does so ) for Conference USA ( which has never sponsored the sport ) . [ 26 ] On July 1 , 2013 , Florida Atlantic 's men 's soccer program moved with the rest of its athletic program to Conference USA , and Chicago State 's men 's tennis team followed the rest of its sports to the Western Athletic Conference . The 2014–15 school year saw one affiliate member leave for another conference and two new affiliates join . The Hartwick men 's soccer team left the MAC for the Sun Belt Conference , which had announced in February 2014 that it would reinstate men 's soccer , a sport that it last sponsored in 1995 , for the 2014 season . [ 27 ] The new affiliates for 2014–15 were Binghamton in men 's tennis and Longwood in field hockey . [ 28 ] On March 5 , 2019 the conference announced that it would be adding the seven former members of the Eastern Wrestling League as affiliate members in wrestling , making the MAC the second largest wrestling conference for academic year 2019-2020 . [ 34 ] With the addition of women 's lacrosse , the MAC will add affiliate members Detroit Mercy and Youngstown State in the 2020-2021 academic year , both UDM and YSU are all-sport members of the Horizon League . [ 18 ]
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I collegiate athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members located in Illinois, Indiana, and New York. For football, the MAC participates in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision. The MAC is headquartered in the Public Square district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and has two members in the nearby Akron area. The MAC has been referred to as the Conference of Quarterbacks because of the accomplishments of numerous former players in the National Football League. The conference also ranks highest among all ten NCAA Division I FBS conferences for graduation rates.