Student debating societies

The Baltimore Urban Debate League (BUDL, pronounced "boodle"), is an American, non profit, urban debate league that aims to educate and mentor inner city middle school and high school students in the Baltimore, Maryland area.

The Bancroft Literary Association and the Carrollton-Wight Literary Society are two competing forensic societies at the Baltimore City College and are the formal names for the school's speech and debates teams.

The Rhode Island Urban Debate League (RIUDL) is an American urban debate league located in Rhode Island.

The Tarheel Forensic League is the speech and debate league for North Carolina.

The Texas Forensic Association (TFA) is an organization that provides and regulates competition in speech and debate (forensics) for Texas high school students.

The Washington Literary Society and Debating Union (also known as "the Washington Society" or "the Wash") is a literary and debating group at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

The Boston University Debate Society is a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association (also known as APDA).

The National Catholic Forensic League (NCFL) is a speech and debate league that was formed in 1951.

The Long Island Forensic Association is a non-profit organization which direct high school competitive speech events.

The Berkeley Forum, commonly referred to simply as "the Forum", is a student organization at the University of California, Berkeley, founded in 2012.

The American Forensic Association was founded in 1949 in Chicago.

The American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall, the other being the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA).

The American Whig–Cliosophic Society (Whig-Clio) is a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University and the oldest debate union in the United States.

The Peithologian Society was an undergraduate debate society at Columbia University.

The Glasgow University Dialectic Society, re-instituted in 1861, is a student society at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, committed to the promotion of debating, logic, ethics and literary discussion at the University.

Linonia is a literary and debating society founded in 1753 at Yale University.

The Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team.

The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University, founded in 1934 by Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold.

The Queen's Debating Union is the largest and only English speaking debating society at Queen's University in the city of Kingston, Ontario.

Stoa USA, also referred to as Stoa, is a Christian homeschool forensics organization in the United States.

The Royal Olivaint Conference of Belgium NPO is a Belgian independent, multilingual leadership organisation and debating union for students founded in 1954.

The Philolexian Society of Columbia University is one of the oldest college secret literary and debate societies in the United States, and the oldest student group at Columbia.

The Philodemic Society is a student debating organization and literary society at Georgetown University.

The Philomathean Society /ˌfaɪloʊˈmeɪθiən/ of the University of Pennsylvania is a collegiate literary society, the oldest student group at the university, and a claimant to the title of the oldest continuously-existing literary society in the United States.

The Asociación Mexicana de Debate (Mexican Debate Association) (AMD) is the regulating body for debate in México, formed by students, former students and debate coaches with experience at the most important debating competitions in the world, such as the World Universities Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship in Spanish and the World Schools Debating Championship, and it is the only body that organizes British Parliamentary, Karl Popper and World Schools debate competitions in the country, including two national championships (one in Spanish and one in English).

The National Christian Forensics and Communications Association is a speech and debate league for Christian homeschooled students in the United States.

The National Speech and Debate Association, formerly the National Forensic League, is an interscholastic speech and debate organization serving middle school, high school, and college students in the United States.

National Debate Federation Bangladesh (NDF) is one of the largest debate associations in Bangladesh.

The Philomathean Society of Phillips Academy is the second oldest secondary school debate union in the United States.

The Calliopean Society is a literary and debating society founded at Yale College in 1819 by a group of members of Linonia dissatisfied by the result of an election for the presidency of the latter society.

The Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID generally, and SUCDI in French) is the national organization which governs all competitive university debating and public speaking in Canada.

The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) (/sidə/ SEE-duh) is the largest intercollegiate policy debate association in the United States.

The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, commonly known as Di Phi, are the original collegiate debating societies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and together comprise the oldest student organization at the University.

The Irving Literary Society (also known as the Irving Literary Association or simply The Irving) was a literary society at Cornell University active from 1868 to 1887.