Tennessee Public Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Public Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 22 public colleges in Tennessee with the largest enrollment of full and part time students. The University of Tennessee tops the list with a population of 28,894 students.

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

List of Tennessee Public Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment
	College	Enrollment
T	The University of Tennessee	28,894
M	Middle Tennessee State University	21,631
M	University of Memphis	21,458
E	East Tennessee State University	14,317
T	The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	11,638
A	Austin Peay State University	10,954
P	Pellissippi State Community College	10,894
T	Tennessee Technological University	10,186
S	Southwest Tennessee Community College	9,347
V	Volunteer State Community College	9,154
N	Nashville State Community College	8,284
C	Chattanooga State Community College	8,241
T	Tennessee State University	7,774
T	The University of Tennessee Martin	7,048
M	Motlow State Community College	6,886
C	Columbia State Community College	6,221
W	Walters State Community College	6,144
N	Northeast State Community College	6,139
R	Roane State Community College	5,688
J	Jackson State Community College	4,862