Private Colleges with the Largest Enrollment in the United States

List of Private Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 1988 private colleges in the United States with the largest enrollment of full and part time students. University of Phoenix Online Campus tops the list with a population of 252,238 students.

Data is reported for the 2017/18 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.

List of United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment
	College	Enrollment
P	University of Phoenix Online Campus	252,238
S	Southern New Hampshire University	90,955
G	Grand Canyon University	83,284
L	Liberty University	75,044
B	Brigham Young University Idaho	51,881
N	New York University	51,123
A	American Public University System	46,420
S	University of Southern California	45,687
C	Capella University	36,284
B	Brigham Young University Provo	34,334
B	Boston University	33,355
P	Purdue Global Davenport Campus	33,287
D	DeVry University Illinois	31,554
H	Harvard University	31,120
C	Columbia University in the City of New York	30,454
G	George Washington University	27,973
C	Chamberlain College of Nursing Illinois	27,099
C	Colorado Technical University Colorado Springs	25,517
P	University of Pennsylvania	25,367
J	Johns Hopkins University	25,151

United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Private Colleges by Enrollment