United States Public Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment

List of Public Colleges by Enrollment

Below is a ranking of the 1636 public colleges in the United States with the largest enrollment of full and part time students. Ivy Tech Community College Central Indiana tops the list with a population of 100,077 students.

List of United States Public Colleges Ranked by Largest Enrollment
School Enrollment
Parkland College

Champaign, IL

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6,018
University of Nebraska at Kearney

Kearney, NE

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6,017
Metropolitan State University

Saint Paul, MN

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6,005
Contra Costa College

San Pablo, CA

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5,997
Sonoma State University

Rohnert Park, CA

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5,990
Lord Fairfax Community College

Middletown, VA

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5,935
St Charles Community College

Cottleville, MO

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5,902
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin

Odessa, TX

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5,899
South Louisiana Community College

Lafayette, LA

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5,887
Paradise Valley Community College

Phoenix, AZ

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5,880
Gaston College

Dallas, NC

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5,871
City Colleges of Chicago Harold Washington College

Chicago, IL

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5,859
Clayton  State University

Morrow, GA

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5,842
Northcentral Technical College

Wausau, WI

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5,838
City Colleges of Chicago Richard J Daley College

Chicago, IL

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5,836
College of Alameda

Alameda, CA

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5,833
New Jersey City University

Jersey City, NJ

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5,833
Walters State Community College

Morristown, TN

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5,833