1949 NCAA swimming and diving championships
Host city	Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Date(s)	March 1949
Venue(s)	Bowman Gray Pool University of North Carolina
Teams	20
Events	12
← 1948 1950 →

The 1949 NCAA swimming and diving championships were contested in March 1949 at the Bowman Gray Pool at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the 13th 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.^[1]

After finishing second in 1948, Ohio State once again topped the team standings, claiming their fourth title in five years and their fifth title overall.

• One event, 150-yard individual medley, was re-added to the NCAA championships program this year; it was contested once before, in 1930.

• (H) = Hosts
• (DC) = Defending champions
• Italics = Debut appearance

Rank	Team	Points
	Ohio State	49
	Iowa	35
	Michigan (DC)	32
4	Yale	18
5	La Salle	12
6	Purdue	11
7	Michigan State	10
	Northwestern
9	North Carolina (H)	7
10	Rutgers	6
	USC
12	Dartmouth	4
	Stanford
	Washington
15	Harvard	3
16	Cincinnati	2
	Duke
	Penn
	Texas
20	Iowa State	1

• List of college swimming and diving teams