United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Private Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 1421 private colleges in the United States with the largest enrollment of full and part time students. Southern New Hampshire University tops the list with a population of 164,091 students.

List of United States Private Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment
School Enrollment
Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester, NH

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164,091
Western Governors University

Salt Lake City, UT

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156,935
Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

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96,709
New York University

New York, NY

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59,144
University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

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48,945
Brigham Young University Idaho

Rexburg, ID

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43,023
Boston University

Boston, MA

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36,714
Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY

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34,782
Brigham Young University Provo

Provo, UT

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34,464
University of the People

Pasadena, California

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34,192
Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

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31,275
Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

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30,631
Northeastern University

Boston, MA

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30,013
University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

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28,201
George Washington University

Washington, DC

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25,939
Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

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25,898
Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

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23,161
Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

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22,698