Currently 612 Division I and II institutions are NLI members. No Division III institutions, NAIA institutions, preparatory schools, junior colleges or community colleges are members of the NLI program. All members of the NLI program are required to offer athletics scholarships. For a list of member institutions, please see the searchable list of institutions

If an NCAA Division I or Division II conference would like to participate in the NLI program, the conference commissioner should notify the NLI office of the conference's desire to join and include a listing of the member schools. Each member school is then required to complete and file with its conference office a National Letter of Intent Institutional Commitment Form, thereby agreeing to abide by the provisions and rules of the NLI program.

If an institution wishes to participate in the NLI program independent of its conference, the institution must first find a NLI member conference to administer the National Letter of Intent on its behalf. Once the institution secures a sponsoring conference, the institution and conference should notify the NLI program that the institution desires to join the program.

Once a conference becomes a member of the NLI program, its participating institutions are given access to the National Letter of Intent via the Internet. While participating institutions are responsible for the actual preparation and dissemination of the NLI, the conference office is responsible for ensuring the NLI is executed in compliance with NLI provisions, is valid and is filed within 21 days of final signature. The conference office is responsible for NLI data entry of prospective student-athletes who have signed an NLI with one of its member institutions.

For answers to additional questions about an institution joining the NLI program, please contact the NLI office at (317) 223-0706.