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	73,499
I	Ivy Tech Community College Central Indiana	72,006
T	Texas A & M University College Station	68,679
C	University of Central Florida	68,475
O	Ohio State University	61,170
M	University of Maryland University College	60,603
F	Florida International University	57,942
H	Houston Community College	57,200
M	Miami Dade College	54,973
F	University of Florida	52,218
T	The University of Texas at Austin	51,832
A	Arizona State University	51,585
T	Tarrant County College District	51,100
N	Northern Virginia Community College	50,929
M	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	50,734
S	Michigan State University	50,351
R	Rutgers University New Brunswick	50,254
I	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	49,702
T	The University of Texas at Arlington	47,899
W	University of Washington Seattle Campus	47,400