California Public Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Public Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 146 public colleges in California with the largest enrollment of full and part time students. University of California Los Angeles tops the list with a population of 44,537 students.

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

List of California Public Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment
	College	Enrollment
C	University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	44,537
C	University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA	42,501
C	California State University Fullerton Fullerton, CA	40,280
C	California State University Northridge Northridge, CA	40,212
C	University of California Davis Davis, CA	38,167
C	University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA	37,887
C	California State University Long Beach Long Beach, CA	37,466
C	University of California Irvine Irvine, CA	36,032
E	East Los Angeles College Monterey Park, CA	35,403
S	San Jose State University San Jose, CA	35,400
S	San Diego State University San Diego, CA	35,303
C	California State University Sacramento Sacramento, CA	31,902
A	American River College Sacramento, CA	31,366
S	San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA	29,778
M	Mt. San Antonio College Walnut, CA	29,346
S	Santa Monica College Santa Monica, CA	28,800
S	Santa Ana College Santa Ana, CA	28,425
C	California State University Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	28,036
C	City College of San Francisco San Francisco, CA	27,008
P	Pasadena City College Pasadena, CA	26,862