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
Regent University

Virginia Beach, VA

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10,168
Villanova University

Villanova, PA

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10,111
Chapman University

Orange, CA

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9,961
Maryville University of Saint Louis

Saint Louis, MO

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9,883
University of New Haven

West Haven, CT

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9,830
Pepperdine University

Malibu, CA

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9,545
Seton Hall University

South Orange, NJ

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9,494
The New School

New York, NY

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9,434
Santa Clara University

Santa Clara, CA

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9,340
University of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

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9,212
Mercer University

Macon, GA

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9,124
University of St Thomas

Saint Paul, MN

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9,121
Wake Forest University

Winston Salem, NC

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9,121
University of San Diego

San Diego, CA

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9,110
Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

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8,922
Quinnipiac University

Hamden, CT

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8,918
Belmont University

Nashville, TN

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8,862
Stevens Institute of Technology

Hoboken, NJ

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8,842