The women's individual recurve archery competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held in the National Taiwan Sport University Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan between August 20–24.

Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows.

The ranking round took place on 20 August 2017 to determine the seeding for the elimination rounds.

It consisted of two rounds of 36 arrows, with a maximum score of 720.

[1] [2] Note: An asterisk (*) denotes a win from a one-arrow shoot-off Source:[3]