Largest U.S. Colleges by Undergraduate Enrollment
Size shapes everything from class availability to campus life. This ranking lists U.S. colleges by fall undergraduate enrollment, and includes both traditional campuses and large online universities that enroll students nationwide.
We ranked 2,326 main campuses and show the 50 with the most undergraduates. Southern New Hampshire University ranks first. The 50th school still enrolls 31,939 undergraduates, while the median across all schools is 1,983. Texas has the most entries with 11. The median net price across all schools is $16,847.
Enrollment counts every undergraduate, including part-time and online students, so large totals do not always mean a large campus. A handful of online universities enroll tens of thousands of students. Compare graduation rates and earnings to see how these big institutions perform.
Big universities offer many majors and resources, but also large classes and more complex systems to navigate. Open a profile to see student-to-faculty ratio, programs and what graduates earn.
How this list is built
A college appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Colleges considered
- All degree-granting colleges in the dataset, 2-year and 4-year
- Ranked by undergraduates, highest first. Ties are broken by larger undergraduate enrollment, then by name.
- Main campuses only, with at least 60% of core data fields reported
- At least 1 undergraduate students enrolled (fall 2024)
- A reported undergraduates value (schools without one are not ranked)
- Data period
- Enrollment: undergraduate students, fall 2024.
- Net price: average for students receiving aid, academic year 2023-24.
- Graduation rate: first-time, full-time students who started in fall 2018 (4-year) or fall 2021 (2-year), finishing within 150% of normal time.
- Earnings: median earnings four years after completing, measured in 2022 and 2023 for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 cohorts, in 2024 dollars.
- Acceptance rate: fall 2024 applicants admitted.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, June 2026 release.
Showing the top 50 of 2,326 qualifying schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table.
| 1 | Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH Private nonprofit · 4-year | 163,164 | $36,708 | 44% | $67,139 | 100% |
| 2 | Western Governors University Salt Lake City, UT Private nonprofit · 4-year · Open admission | 155,088 | $12,548 | 48% | $87,445 | — |
| 3 | University of Phoenix-Arizona Phoenix, AZ For-profit · 4-year · Open admission | 85,991 | $13,520 | 20% | $61,486 | — |
| 4 | Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ Private nonprofit · 4-year | 73,371 | $22,472 | 43% | $74,343 | 79% |
| 5 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 64,674 | $14,967 | 68% | $66,968 | 90% |
| 6 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 59,615 | $21,315 | 84% | $76,234 | 57% |
| 7 | University of Central Florida Orlando, FL Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 59,146 | $10,411 | 77% | $61,355 | 40% |
| 8 | Liberty University Lynchburg, VA Private nonprofit · 4-year | 50,012 | $29,357 | 64% | $57,700 | 99% |
| 9 | University of Maryland Global Campus Adelphi, MD Public · 4-year · Open admission | 49,664 | $22,063 | 31% | $87,025 | — |
| 10 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH Public · 4-year | 45,638 | $17,339 | 88% | $70,682 | 61% |
| 11 | Lone Star College System The Woodlands, TX Public · 4-year · Open admission · Hispanic-Serving | 45,188 | $11,252 | 20% | $52,634 | — |
| 12 | Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN Public · 4-year | 44,503 | $14,600 | 83% | $81,751 | 50% |
| 13 | Dallas College Dallas, TX Public · 4-year · Open admission · Hispanic-Serving | 43,869 | $3,214 | 34% | $53,130 | — |
| 14 | The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Public · 4-year | 42,855 | $19,857 | 88% | $79,115 | 27% |
| 15 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 42,537 | $16,674 | 67% | $67,420 | 86% |
| 16 | Tarrant County College District Fort Worth, TX Public · 2-year · Open admission · Hispanic-Serving | 42,300 | $4,337 | 29% | $50,928 | — |
| 17 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA Public · 4-year | 42,284 | $32,875 | 86% | $76,659 | 61% |
| 18 | Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA Public · 4-year | 41,254 | $15,048 | 50% | $68,306 | 69% |
| 19 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Public · 4-year | 40,922 | $19,680 | 81% | $74,093 | 85% |
| 20 | Houston City College Houston, TX Public · 4-year · Open admission · Hispanic-Serving | 40,503 | $5,737 | 17% | $50,591 | — |
| 21 | American Public University System Charles Town, WV For-profit · 4-year · Open admission | 40,074 | $9,597 | 55% | $70,107 | — |
| 22 | Florida International University Miami, FL Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 39,508 | $9,288 | 74% | $62,192 | 55% |
| 23 | California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 38,546 | $6,555 | 70% | $63,753 | 91% |
| 24 | University of Houston Houston, TX Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 38,380 | $14,276 | 65% | $68,091 | 74% |
| 25 | Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN Public · 4-year | 37,806 | $16,264 | 81% | $74,511 | 78% |
| 26 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Public · 4-year | 37,751 | $24,406 | 84% | $77,933 | 58% |
| 27 | University of South Florida Tampa, FL Public · 4-year | 37,207 | $9,812 | 76% | $62,079 | 43% |
| 28 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI Public · 4-year | 36,902 | $17,354 | 89% | $78,974 | 45% |
| 29 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL Public · 4-year | 36,258 | $14,355 | 85% | $79,628 | 42% |
| 30 | Texas State University San Marcos, TX Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 36,177 | $16,805 | 56% | $58,786 | 89% |
| 31 | California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 35,924 | $10,440 | 69% | $63,140 | 46% |
| 32 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL Public · 4-year | 35,629 | $6,541 | 91% | $77,321 | 24% |
| 33 | San Diego State University San Diego, CA Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 35,377 | $15,364 | 77% | $68,268 | 36% |
| 34 | University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 34,948 | $12,470 | 87% | $83,130 | 27% |
| 35 | University of North Texas Denton, TX Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 34,341 | $15,649 | 60% | $58,743 | 72% |
| 36 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Public · 4-year | 34,177 | $13,138 | 93% | $96,159 | 16% |
| 37 | Connecticut State Community College New Britain, CT Public · 2-year · Open admission · Hispanic-Serving | 33,645 | $11,513 | 21% | $50,130 | — |
| 38 | University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 33,475 | $12,548 | 93% | $77,677 | 9% |
| 39 | The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL Public · 4-year | 33,227 | $22,420 | 74% | $70,439 | 77% |
| 40 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA Public · 4-year | 33,068 | $13,481 | 93% | $96,018 | 11% |
| 41 | Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, VA Public · 2-year · Open admission · Hispanic-Serving | 33,048 | $9,919 | 35% | $57,487 | — |
| 42 | Brigham Young University Provo, UT Private nonprofit · 4-year | 32,952 | $15,564 | 82% | $77,018 | 68% |
| 43 | California State University-Northridge Northridge, CA Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 32,691 | $7,021 | 57% | $59,664 | 93% |
| 44 | Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 32,394 | $19,070 | 68% | $66,144 | 73% |
| 45 | The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 32,294 | $13,951 | 55% | $79,176 | 80% |
| 46 | University of California-Davis Davis, CA Public · 4-year · Hispanic-Serving | 32,253 | $14,741 | 85% | $73,086 | 42% |
| 47 | Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Public · 4-year | 32,212 | $11,297 | 84% | $66,924 | 24% |
| 48 | University of Georgia Athens, GA Public · 4-year | 32,137 | $13,936 | 89% | $74,144 | 38% |
| 49 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA Public · 4-year | 31,942 | $14,091 | 84% | $82,515 | 39% |
| 50 | University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO Public · 4-year | 31,939 | $25,346 | 75% | $76,850 | 78% |
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