One current MIVA member changed its institutional and athletic identity after the 2018 men's volleyball season. The next change in membership will come in 2023 with the arrival of Queens. The most recent change in MIVA membership was in 2017, when Grand Canyon left the MIVA for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

^ Purdue Fort Wayne began operating as a standalone institution in 2018, but inherited its athletic program from Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne, established in 1964.

A ninth team will join in 2023 (2024 season). The MIVA comprises eight teams from the NCAA's Division I and Division II. Loyola won the national championship in both 20, and Ohio State won the title in 2011, 2016, and 2017. Lewis' 2003 title was later vacated by the school due to player eligibility issues, and the NCAA no longer recognizes the title. Three MIVA teams have won the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship, although only two are officially recognized by the NCAA. Another transitional D-I school, Queens University of Charlotte, will join the MIVA in July 2023.

The current membership is made up of five D-I (including two charter members) and three D-II institutions, with Lindenwood University having started a transition from D-II to D-I in July 2022.

Over the years, more than forty schools from Divisions I, II, and III, as well as a couple of junior colleges, have participated as members of the MIVA. The league name was later changed to the Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA). The league came about largely through the efforts of Jim Coleman of Wittenberg College and Don Shondell of Ball State University. On Februthe Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Conference, the nation's first men's college volleyball league, was started in Lansing, Michigan by representatives of Ball State University, Detroit Institute of Technology, Earlham College, George Williams College, Lansing College, Michigan State University, Ohio State University, and Wittenberg College. The two other pre-2017 major volleyball conferences, the EIVA ( Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) and the MPSF ( Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), also send their league tournament champions to the tournament, as do Conference Carolinas (since the 2014 season) and the Big West Conference (from the 2018 season forward). The MIVA Tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship, which now consists of seven teams playing in a single-elimination format to determine the national champion. Many of the conference's schools also participate in the similarly named Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association in men's volleyball at the club level. The conference footprint is centered in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Missouri in the west to Ohio in the east a North Carolina school will join in 2023. The Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association ( MIVA) is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball.

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