| 1944 NCAA swimming and diving championships | |
| Hostcity: | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Dates: | March 1944 |
| Venues: | Payne Whitney Gymnasium Yale University |
| Teams: | 15 |
| Events: | 11 |
| Previous: | 1943 |
| Next: | 1945 |
The 1944 NCAA swimming and diving championships were contested in March 1944 at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut at the eighth annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving among its member programs in the United States.
Hosts Yale topped the team standings, thus capturing the Bulldogs' second title in program history. Yale finished one point ahead of perennial power Michigan.[1]
| Yale (H) | 39 | ||
| 38 | |||
| 24 | |||
| Ohio State (DC) | |||
| 22 | |||
| 14 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 6 | |||
| Rochester | |||
| Cornell | 5 | ||
| Bowdoin | 4 | ||
| 3 | |||
| 2 |
| 50-yard freestyle | Yale | 22.2 | ||
| 100-yard freestyle | Yale | 49.7 | ||
| 220-yard freestyle | Columbia | 2:11.0 | ||
| 440-yard freestyle | Ohio State (DC) | 4:47.0 | ||
| 1,500-meter freestyle | Ohio State (DC) | 20:02.2 | ||
| 150-yard backstroke | Yale | 1:36.8 | ||
| 200-yard butterfly | Brown | 2:28.3 | ||
| 400-yard freestyle relay | Michigan (DC) | 3:35.0 | ||
| 300-yard medley relay | Navy | 3:01.1 |
| One-meter diving | Columbia | 122.40 | ||
| Three-meter diving | Columbia | 138.56 |