List of the largest United States colleges and universities by enrollment

Phoenix

Ivy Tech

Ashford

APUS

MDC

Lone Star

Liberty

PSU

HCCS

ASU

Kaplan

The ten largest colleges and universities by enrollment in the United States.
 – Private
 – Public

This is a list of the largest United States colleges and universities by enrollment for colleges and universities in the United States.

What this list includes:

• Colleges and universities within the United States
• University systems if the system is run under a single administration
• Enrollment is the sum of the headcount of undergraduate and graduate students
• Enrollment is counted by the Integrated Post-secondary Education System within the U.S. Department of Education.
• Enrollment is the 12-month unduplicated headcount, indicating the number of unique students who attended the university during the year.

What this list does not include:

• Any indication of how many of the enrolled students are full or part-time (e.g., some universities may have a high enrollment, but have most students enrolled in only a single class)
• Any indication of how many students are online-only.

For other lists that measure university enrollment, see the see also section below.

RankingsEdit

The United States Department of Education's Integrated Post-secondary Education Data System contains information on all 7,316 officially-recognized institutions of higher education in the United States. The following is a list of the thirty largest institutions of higher education by Fall 2013 enrollment, meaning it is the number of unique individuals who were enrolled in at least one class on the 21st day of the Fall 2013 semester. Whether a system of individual campuses is counted as one or multiple institutions depends on how that institution is accredited and chartered. All data can be verified on the IPEDS system website.^[1]

U.S. Department of Education Fall 2013 Enrollment[2]
Rank	College	Classification	Location	Enrollment
1	State University of New York System	Public	New York	606,232
2	University of Phoenix	Private	Arizona	442,033
3	University of North Carolina System	Public	North Carolina	222,322
4	Ivy Tech Community College	Public	Indiana	175,313
5	Ashford University	Private	Iowa	169,843
6	American Public University System	Private	West Virginia	110,644
7	Liberty University	Private	Virginia	110,000
8	Miami Dade College	Public	Florida	100,855
9	Lone Star College System	Public	Texas	98,313
10	The Pennsylvania State University	Public	Pennsylvania	94,441
11	Houston Community College System	Public	Texas	93,625
12	Arizona State University	Public	Arizona	81,789
13	Kaplan University	Private	Iowa	77,566
14	Northern Virginia Community College	Public	Virginia	76,552
15	Walden University	Private	Minnesota	75,895
16	Tarrant County College District	Public	Texas	75,547
17	Grand Canyon University	Private	Arizona	71,712
18	Austin Community College District	Public	Texas	70,452
19	University of Central Florida	Public	Florida	69,086
20	The Ohio State University	Public	Ohio	64,930
21	University of Maryland	Public	Maryland	64,737
22	University of Minnesota	Public	Minnesota	63,929
23	Broward College	Public	Florida	62,796
24	Florida International University	Public	Florida	60,592
25	Valencia College	Public	Florida	60,469
26	University of Florida	Public	Florida	56,683
27	East Los Angeles College	Public	California	56,395
28	College of Southern Nevada	Public	Nevada	56,364
29	Rio Salado College	Public	Arizona	56,031
30	Capella University	Private	Minnesota	56,009
31	Portland Community College	Public	Oregon	55,558

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