List of NAIA conferences

Football conferences

Non-football conferences

Defunct conferences

• American Mideast Conference
• Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference
• Central States Intercollegiate Conference
• Dakota Athletic Conference
• Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• Evergreen Conference
• Great Plains Athletic Conference
• Hoosier–Buckeye Conference
• Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference
• Midwest Collegiate Conference
• Missouri College Athletic Union
• Nebraska College Conference
• North Dakota College Athletic Conference, merged with South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference to form Dakota Athletic Conference
• Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference
• Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference
• Pacific Northwest Athletic Conference
• South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference, merged with North Dakota College Athletic Conference to form Dakota Athletic Conference
• South East Atlantic Conference, football only, members became NAIA football independents
• Sunrise Athletic Conference
• TranSouth Athletic Conference
• Tri-State Conference
• Volunteer State Athletic Conference
• West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, transferred to the NCAA in 1994

  Former conferences

• Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
• Dixie Conference, became the USA South Athletic Conference in 2003
• Conference Carolinas, known as Carolinas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference after 1961, held dual membership with the NCAA for two years starting in 1993
• Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, known as Northern Intercollegiate Conference after 1962
• Northwest Conference, Pacific Northwest Conference before 1984 and Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges until 1996
• Upper Midwest Athletic Conference