Editing Big South Conference (section)

===Former full members===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
!Institution
!Location
!Founded
!Joined
!Left
!Type
!Nickname
!class="unsortable"|Colors
!Current<br>conference
|-
| '''[[Armstrong State University]]'''
| [[Savannah, Georgia]]
| 1935
| rowspan="2"|1983
| 1987
| rowspan="2"|Public
| [[Armstrong State Pirates and Lady Pirates|Pirates]]
| {{college color boxes|Armstrong State Pirates}}
| ''none''{{efn|group=former|Armstrong State, which was last a member of the [[NCAA Division II]] [[Peach Belt Conference]], dropped intercollegiate athletics at the end of the 2016–17 school year due to its impending consolidation with [[Georgia Southern University]].}}
|-
| '''[[Augusta University]]'''{{efn|group=former|Formerly known as [[Augusta State University]] until January 2013, when it merged with another Augusta institution ([[Georgia Health Sciences University]]) to create '''Georgia Regents University'''. At the time of the merger, only GRU (as Augusta State) had an athletic program, and GRU's sports teams continued to compete as "Augusta State" through the end of the 2012–13 school year. The school changed its name again to the current '''Augusta University''' in 2015.}}
| [[Augusta, Georgia]]
| 1785
| 1990
| [[Augusta Jaguars|Jaguars]]
| {{college color boxes|Augusta Jaguars}}
| [[Peach Belt Conference|Peach Belt]]{{efn|group=former|name=D2|Currently an [[NCAA Division II]] athletic conference.}}
|-
| '''[[Birmingham–Southern College]]'''
| [[Birmingham, Alabama]]
| 1856
| 2000
| 2007
| Private<br />{{small|([[United Methodist Church|Methodist]])}}
| [[Birmingham–Southern Panthers|Panthers]]
| {{college color boxes|Birmingham–Southern Panthers}}
| Closed in 2024
|-
| '''[[Campbell University]]'''
| [[Buies Creek, North Carolina]]
| 1887
| 1983{{efn|group=full|Campbell was a founding member of the Big South in 1983. The Fighting Camels left the Big South after the 1993–94 school year to join the [[ASUN Conference|Trans Atlantic Athletic Conference]] (TAAC; later the Atlantic Sun Conference, now the ASUN Conference); before rejoining effective the 2011–12 school year for all sports, except for their football program, which remained in the [[Pioneer Football League]] until joining Big South football in the 2018 fall season (2018–19 school year). Campbell then left the Big South again in 2023 to the Colonial Athletic Association as its primary athletic conference.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://gocamels.com/news/2022/8/3/news-campbell-university-to-join-colonial-athletic-association-in-2023.aspx | title=Campbell University to join Colonial Athletic Association in 2023 | access-date=August 4, 2022 | work=Campbell University Fighting Camels | date=August 3, 2022}}</ref>}};<br>2011
| 1994;<br>2023
| Private <br />{{small|([[Southern Baptist]])}}
| [[Campbell Fighting Camels and Lady Camels|Fighting Camels]]
| {{college color boxes|Campbell Fighting Camels}}
| [[Coastal Athletic Association|CAA]]
|-
| '''[[Coastal Carolina University]]'''
| [[Conway, South Carolina]]
| 1954
| 1983
| 2016
| Public
| [[Coastal Carolina Chanticleers|Chanticleers]]
| {{college color boxes|Coastal Carolina Chanticleers}}
| [[Sun Belt Conference|Sun Belt]]
|-
| '''[[Davidson College]]'''
| [[Davidson, North Carolina]]
| 1837
| 1990
| 1992
| Private<br />{{small|([[PCUSA]])}}
| [[Davidson Wildcats|Wildcats]]
| {{college color boxes|Davidson Wildcats}}
| [[Atlantic 10]]
|-
| '''[[Elon University]]'''
| [[Elon, North Carolina]]
| 1889
| 1999
| 2003
| Private<br />{{small|(Nonsectarian)}}
| [[Elon Phoenix|Phoenix]]
| {{college color boxes|Elon Phoenix}}
| [[Coastal Athletic Association|CAA]]
|-
| '''[[Hampton University]]'''
| [[Hampton, Virginia]]
| 1868
| 2018
| 2022
| Private<br />{{small|(Nonsectarian, [[HBCU]])}}
| [[Hampton Pirates|Pirates]]
| {{college color boxes|Hampton Pirates}}
| [[Coastal Athletic Association|CAA]]
|-
| '''[[Liberty University]]'''
| [[Lynchburg, Virginia]]
| 1971
| 1991{{efn|group=former|Liberty was ineligible for the Big South football title in its final conference season of 2017 (2017–18 school year), as it had started a transition to [[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|FBS football]] in that season.}}
| 2018
| Private<br />{{small|([[Nondenominational Christianity|Nondenominational]])}}<!--Historically Baptist, but now officially nondenominational.-->
| [[Liberty Flames and Lady Flames|Flames and Lady Flames]]
| {{college color boxes|Liberty Flames}}
| [[Conference USA|CUSA]]
|-
| {{sort|Maryland–Baltimore County|'''[[University of Maryland, Baltimore County]]'''}}
| [[Catonsville, Maryland]]
| 1966
|1992
| 1998
|Public
| [[UMBC Retrievers|Retrievers]]
| {{college color boxes|UMBC Retrievers}}
| [[America East]]
|-
| '''[[North Carolina A&T State University]]'''
| [[Greensboro, North Carolina]]
| 1891
| 2021
| 2022
| Public<br />{{small|([[University of North Carolina|UNC]], [[HBCU]])}}
| [[North Carolina A&T Aggies|Aggies]]
| {{college color boxes|North Carolina A&T Aggies}}
| [[Coastal Athletic Association|CAA]]
|-
| {{sort|North Carolina Greensboro|'''[[University of North Carolina at Greensboro]]'''}}
| [[Greensboro, North Carolina]]
| 1891
| 1992
| 1997
| Public
| [[UNC Greensboro Spartans|Spartans]]
| {{college color boxes|UNC Greensboro Spartans}}
| [[SoCon]]
|-
| '''[[Towson University]]'''
| [[Towson, Maryland]]
| 1866
| 1992
| 1995
| Public
| [[Towson Tigers|Tigers]]
| {{college color boxes|Towson Tigers}}
| [[Coastal Athletic Association|CAA]]
|- 
| '''[[Virginia Military Institute]]'''
| [[Lexington, Virginia]]
| 1839
| 2003
| 2014
| [[Senior Military College]]
| [[VMI Keydets|Keydets]]
| {{college color boxes|VMI Keydets}}
| [[SoCon]]
|}

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