United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Private Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 1423 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 164,091 students.

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

Manchester, NH

164,091
Western Governors University

Salt Lake City, UT

156,935
Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

96,709
New York University

New York, NY

59,144
University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

48,945
Brigham Young University Idaho

Rexburg, ID

43,023
Boston University

Boston, MA

36,714
Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY

34,782
Brigham Young University Provo

Provo, UT

34,464
University of the People

Pasadena, California

34,192
Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

31,275
Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

30,631
Northeastern University

Boston, MA

30,013
University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

28,201
George Washington University

Washington, DC

25,939
Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

25,898
Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

23,161
Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

22,698