New York Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Private Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 143 private colleges in New York with the largest enrollment of full and part time students. New York University tops the list with a population of 51,847 students.

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

List of New York Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment
	College	Enrollment
N	New York University New York, NY	51,847
C	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	31,077
C	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	23,600
S	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	22,803
S	St John's University New York Queens, NY	21,635
F	Fordham University Bronx, NY	16,515
R	Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY	16,463
L	Long Island University C W Post Campus Brookville, NY	15,196
P	Pace University New York New York, NY	13,326
R	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	11,817
T	Touro College New York, NY	11,800
H	Hofstra University Hempstead, NY	10,871
N	The New School New York, NY	10,544
M	Mercy College Dobbs Ferry, NY	9,031
A	Adelphi University Garden City, NY	8,146
R	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	7,895
N	New York Institute of Technology Old Westbury, NY	7,173
L	Long Island University Brooklyn Campus Brooklyn, NY	6,982
M	Marist College Poughkeepsie, NY	6,624
I	Ithaca College Ithaca, NY	6,517