United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Private Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 1321 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 104,068 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
S	Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH	104,068
L	Liberty University Lynchburg, VA	79,152
N	New York University New York, NY	51,847
S	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	47,310
B	Brigham Young University Idaho Rexburg, ID	42,341
B	Boston University Boston, MA	34,657
B	Brigham Young University Provo Provo, UT	34,499
H	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	31,566
C	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	31,077
G	George Washington University Washington, DC	28,172
J	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	26,152
P	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	25,860
D	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA	24,634
C	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	23,600
S	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	22,803
D	DePaul University Chicago, IL	22,437
N	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	22,127
S	St John's University New York Queens, NY	21,635
N	Northeastern University Boston, MA	21,627
N	Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, FL	20,435