United States Public Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Public Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 1597 public colleges in the United States with the largest enrollment of full and part time students. Lone Star College System tops the list with a population of 73,499 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 Public Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment
	College	Enrollment
L	Lone Star College System The Woodlands, TX	73,499
I	Ivy Tech Community College Central Indiana Indianapolis, IN	72,006
T	Texas A & M University College Station College Station, TX	68,679
C	University of Central Florida Orlando, FL	68,475
O	Ohio State University Columbus, OH	61,170
M	University of Maryland University College Adelphi, MD	60,603
F	Florida International University Miami, FL	57,942
H	Houston Community College Houston, TX	57,200
M	Miami Dade College Miami, FL	54,973
F	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	52,218
T	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	51,832
A	Arizona State University Tempe, AZ	51,585
T	Tarrant County College District Fort Worth, TX	51,100
N	Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, VA	50,929
M	University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	50,734
S	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	50,351
R	Rutgers University New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	50,254
I	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Champaign, IL	49,702
T	The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX	47,899
W	University of Washington Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	47,400