United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Private Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 1398 private colleges in the United States with the largest enrollment of full and part time students. Western Governors University tops the list with a population of 185,015 students.

List of United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment
School Enrollment
Western Governors University

Salt Lake City, UT

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185,015
Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester, NH

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184,099
Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

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103,068
New York University

New York, NY

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57,335
University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

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47,147
Brigham Young University Idaho

Rexburg, ID

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42,996
University of the People

Pasadena, California

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42,867
Boston University

Boston, MA

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36,624
Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY

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35,279
Brigham Young University Provo

Provo, UT

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35,074
Northeastern University

Boston, MA

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31,159
Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

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30,386
Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

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30,362
University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

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28,711
Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

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26,264
George Washington University

Washington, DC

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25,568
Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

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23,203
Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

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22,948