The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs among smaller institutions, primarily across the United States but also outside the US. The NAIA has two members in Canada and at one point had another in the Bahamas, which made it the only international intercollegiate athletic association in North America until 2009. As of October 2013, the NAIA reports having 255 member institutions.