Largest US colleges and universities by enrollment

How many students were enrolled in fall 2024, counting online and part-time alongside everyone on campus.

Source U.S. Dept. of Education (ZIP download), as of 15 October 2024 · students (Fall 2024)

NCES (IPEDS) — Fall Enrollment 2024 (EF2024A), the "All students total" stratum, joined to the IPEDS institutional directory (HD2024). Published as institution-level microdata in UNITID order; screened to Title IV participating institutions and ranked here.

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Rank	Entry	students (Fall 2024)
#1	Western Governors University	210,208
#2	Southern New Hampshire University	189,531
#3	Grand Canyon University	113,257
#4	University of Phoenix, Arizona	111,248
#5	Ivy Tech Community College	110,710
#6	Liberty University	104,327
#7	Arizona State University Campus Immersion	79,818
#8	Texas A&M University, College Station	78,321
#9	Lone Star College System	73,077
#10	Arizona State University Digital Immersion	72,994
#11	Dallas College	69,749
#12	University of Central Florida	69,713
#13	University of Maryland Global Campus	63,012
#14	Ohio State University	61,443
#15	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	59,238
#16	Miami Dade College	58,941
#17	Purdue University	58,658
#18	University of Washington, Seattle Campus	56,997
#19	New York University	56,832
#20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	56,666
#21	Northern Virginia Community College	56,457
#22	University of Arizona	56,365
#23	University of Florida	56,311
#24	Florida International University	54,723
#25	The University of Texas at Austin	53,864
#26	Georgia Institute of Technology	53,363
#27	Houston Community College	53,253
#28	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	52,855
#29	Rutgers University, New Brunswick	52,269
#30	Michigan State University	52,089
#31	University of Wisconsin, Madison	51,044
#32	Pennsylvania State University	50,737
#33	American Public University System	50,715
#34	University of South Florida	49,622
#35	Walden University	49,441
#36	Indiana University, Bloomington	48,424
#37	University of Houston	47,980
#38	Kennesaw State University	47,764
#39	Capella University	47,761
#40	Valencia College	47,425
#41	University of California, Los Angeles	47,335
#42	University of North Texas	46,864
#43	Utah Valley University	46,807
#44	University of Southern California	46,566
#45	University of California, Berkeley	45,882
#46	Purdue University Global	45,588
#47	Brigham Young University, Idaho	45,585
#48	University of Cincinnati	45,026
#49	The University of Texas at Arlington	44,956
#50	University of California, San Diego	44,256
#51	Tarrant County College District	43,928
#52	Florida State University	43,889
#53	California State University, Fullerton	43,662
#54	University of Georgia	43,146
#55	California State University, Long Beach	42,003
#56	University of Maryland, College Park	41,725
#57	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	41,705
#58	San Diego State University	41,137
#59	The University of Alabama	40,846
#60	Texas Tech University	40,757
#61	Texas State University	40,674
#62	University of California, Davis	40,065
#63	George Mason University	39,766
#64	Austin Community College District	39,727
#65	Collin County Community College District	39,548
#66	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	38,857
#67	University of Colorado Boulder	38,799
#68	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	38,728
#69	University of South Carolina, Columbia	38,532
#70	North Carolina State University	38,464
#71	California State University, Northridge	38,313
#72	Boston University	37,737
#73	San Jose State University	37,661
#74	University of California, Irvine	37,297
#75	Oregon State University	37,163
#76	University of Utah	36,894
#77	Connecticut State Community College	36,315
#78	Brigham Young University	35,873
#79	The University of Texas at San Antonio	35,770
#80	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	35,724
#81	Columbia University	35,173
#82	Georgia State University	34,944
#83	University of Kentucky	34,709
#84	Auburn University	34,145
#85	Colorado State University, Fort Collins	34,096
#86	University of Illinois Chicago	33,906
#87	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	33,881
#88	East Los Angeles College	33,677
#89	University of Arkansas	33,610
#90	Chamberlain University, Illinois	32,944
#91	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	32,911
#92	Weber State University	32,701
#93	Northeastern University	32,553
#94	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	32,438
#95	California State University, Sacramento	31,943
#96	University at Buffalo	31,903
#97	Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs	31,830
#98	San Jacinto Community College	31,812
#99	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	31,726
#100	Florida Atlantic University	31,607

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