Category:Former Big East Conference schools

This category includes institutions that were once members of the "Big East Conference". It is intended to include subcategories for the following
 * Institutions that left the original Big East before the 2013 conference split.
 * Institutions that remained in the American Athletic Conference, the football-sponsoring conference that inherited the original Big East's charter and structure, after the 2013 split.
 * Any Institutions that may leave the current Big East in the future.

For athletic programs that left any incarnation of the Big East, see.