May 25, 2012

Largest Higher Education Institutions by Enrollment

The higher-education institutions listed below represent the biggest colleges and universities in the United States by enrollment. The 2009 AS&U Higher Education 20 — a compilation of the nation's 20 largest higher education institutions — also provides the following data:

Rank	Institution	2007-08 Enrollment
1	University of Phoenix-Online Campus	224,880
2	Miami Dade College	54,094
3	Ohio State University-Main Campus	52,568
4	University of Florida	51,725
5	Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus	51,481
6	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	50,883
7	The University of Texas at Austin	50,170
8	University of Central Florida	48,398
9	Texas A & M University	46,542
10	City College of San Francisco	46,411
11	Michigan State University	46,045
12	University of South Florida	44,870
13	Houston Community College System	43,518
14	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	43,252
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	42,326
16	New York University	41,783
17	University of Wisconsin-Madison	41,563
18	Northern Virginia Community College	41,266
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	41,042
20	Florida State University	40,555

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