List of Atlantic Coast Conference national championships
Institution Nickname Location Founded Joined Conference Varsity Sports NCAA Championships ( as of January 9 , 2017 ) Pre-ACC Championships
Boston College Eagles Chestnut Hill , Massachusetts 1863 2005 31 6 2
Clemson University Tigers Clemson , South Carolina 1889 1953 19 6 0
Duke University Blue Devils Durham , North Carolina 1838 1953 20 17 0
Florida State University Seminoles Tallahassee , Florida 1851 1991 17 7 4
Georgia Institute of Technology Yellow Jackets Atlanta , Georgia 1885 1978 17 1 0
University of Louisville Cardinals Louisville , Kentucky 1798 2014 21 3 3
University of Miami Hurricanes Coral Gables , Florida 1925 2004 17 21 21
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels Chapel Hill , North Carolina 1789 1953 27 38 0
North Carolina State University Wolfpack Raleigh , North Carolina 1887 1953 25 2 0
University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish South Bend , Indiana 1842 2013 23 16 15
University of Pittsburgh Panthers Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 1787 2013 19 0 0
Syracuse University Orange Syracuse , New York 1870 2013 20 12 12
University of Virginia Cavaliers Charlottesville , Virginia 1819 1953 25 27 1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Hokies Blacksburg , Virginia 1872 2004 21 0 0
Wake Forest University Demon Deacons Winston-Salem , North Carolina 1834 1953 18 9 0
Totals by school
The following table ranks the current ACC schools by the number of NCAA recognized national championships each school has won as an ACC member . This does not include Division I-A/FBS football championships , or Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women championships .
The list of ACC national champions begins in the Atlantic Coast Conference's first full academic year of competition in 1953 and totals 120 NCAA-sanctioned team national championships. ACC members won a total of four national championships in the 2017-18 school year - in fencing (Notre Dame), women's basketball (Notre Dame), men's tennis (Wake Forest), and softball (Florida State). Listed below are all championship teams of NCAA sponsored events, as well as the titles won in football, which is not an official NCAA-sanctioned championship. Up to 1982, teams representing member schools also claimed five Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women championships.