The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, which operates in the Upper Midwest of the United States.

Both men and women compete in basketball, cross country, golf, and indoor and outdoor track and field.

Women compete in soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, and volleyball.

In 1992, the NSIC joined NCAA Division II after being long time members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

[5] In the 1998–99 academic year, the NSIC became an expanded eight-team league from a previous seven-member conference by adding Wayne State College, and in 1999–2000 became a 10-member conference by adding Concordia University, St. Paul, and the University of Minnesota Crookston.

These four schools were members of the North Central Conference which disbanded after the 2007–2008 academic year.

On January 20, 2010, the NSIC Board of Directors voted to expand the conference again, this time to 16 members.

[9] Four individuals have won national titles in women's indoor track and field.

Eleven athletes have won national titles in men's outdoor track and field.

[10] Six female athletes have won individual titles in outdoor track and field.

In 1992, the NSIC entered the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

In the Fall of 1995, the NSIC and its member institutions became eligible for championship competition in the NCAA Division II ranks.