United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Private Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 1327 private colleges in the United States with the largest enrollment of full and part time students. Southern New Hampshire University tops the list with a population of 145,533 students.

List of United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment
School Enrollment
Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester, NH

145,533
Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

94,709
New York University

New York, NY

58,226
University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

49,318
Brigham Young University Idaho

Rexburg, ID

44,304
Boston University

Boston, MA

36,104
Brigham Young University Provo

Provo, UT

34,811
Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY

33,776
Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY

33,776
Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

32,049
Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

31,345
Northeastern University

Boston, MA

28,167
University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

28,038
George Washington University

Washington, DC

26,457
Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

25,582
Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

23,409
Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

23,216
Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

21,772