Since the 2024–25 school year, the EIVA has had seven member teams, six from the
NCAA's
Division I. The University of Charleston of
Division II joined the conference for competition in 2016 after spending the 2015 season as an independent. The most recent changes in membership were the 2022 departure of Sacred Heart, St. Francis Brooklyn, and Saint Francis (PA) for the NEC, followed in 2024 by Sacred Heart's return to the EIVA. Through the 2014 season,
Division III Rutgers–Newark had been the EIVA's eighth member but spent its final years in the EIVA transitioning to Division III men's volleyball and left for the D-III
Continental Volleyball Conference in 2015. Because Rutgers–Newark traditionally competed in the former University Division in men's volleyball before the NCAA created its current three-division setup in 1972, it had been allowed to award scholarships in that sport, making it one of only
seven D-III schools then allowed to do so in any sport. As part of its D-III transition, it stopped awarding scholarships to new athletes in the 2011 season.