Below are the 1996– 1997 women’s college squash final team rankings:
- Harvard University
- Princeton University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Yale University
- Dartmouth College
- Trinity College
- Brown University
- Amherst College
- Williams College
- Bowdoin College
- Wesleyan University
- Bates College
- Franklin & Marshall College
- Colby College
- Middlebury College
- Tufts University
- Cornell University
- Colgate University
- Hamilton College
- Smith College
- Connecticut College
- Mount Holyoke College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Vassar College
- Wellesley College
- Haverford College
- Bard College