Largest colleges by total enrollment

Method notes

Underlying institution file: EDsmart Data processed College Scorecard extract merged to IPEDS 2023 directory for HBCU and Carnegie fields.
ROI column matches the processed college_roi_rankings series in this site build; see College Scorecard ROI methodology.
School profile links use generated slugs; not every campus has a published profile page yet—use the Scorecard site as fallback.

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Rank	Institution	State	Control	Enrollment	Primary metric	Also see
1	Southern New Hampshire University	NH	Private nonprofit	163,164	163,164	ROI $42,544
2	Western Governors University	UT	Private nonprofit	155,088	155,088	ROI $270,388
3	University of Phoenix-Arizona	AZ	Private for-profit	85,991	85,991	ROI $115,354
4	Grand Canyon University	AZ	Private nonprofit	73,371	73,371	ROI $109,865
5	Arizona State University Campus Immersion	AZ	Public	64,674	64,674	ROI $215,990
6	Texas A&M University-College Station	TX	Public	59,615	59,615	ROI $222,804
7	University of Central Florida	FL	Public	59,146	59,146	ROI $211,954
8	Ivy Tech Community College	IN	Public	58,267	58,267	ROI $165,865
9	Arizona State University Digital Immersion	AZ	Public	53,782	53,782	ROI —
10	Liberty University	VA	Private nonprofit	50,012	50,012	ROI $61,271
11	University of Maryland Global Campus	MD	Public	49,664	49,664	ROI $195,026
12	Miami Dade College	FL	Public	46,182	46,182	ROI $178,218
13	Ohio State University-Main Campus	OH	Public	45,638	45,638	ROI $193,448
14	Lone Star College System	TX	Public	45,188	45,188	ROI $153,114
15	Purdue University-Main Campus	IN	Public	44,503	44,503	ROI $260,795
16	Brigham Young University-Idaho	ID	Private nonprofit	44,397	44,397	ROI $227,038
17	Dallas College	TX	Public	43,869	43,869	ROI $182,008
18	The University of Texas at Austin	TX	Public	42,855	42,855	ROI $241,848
19	University of Arizona	AZ	Public	42,537	42,537	ROI $190,028
20	Tarrant County College District	TX	Public	42,300	42,300	ROI $180,503
21	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	PA	Public	42,284	42,284	ROI $134,948
22	Kennesaw State University	GA	Public	41,254	41,254	ROI $187,954
23	Michigan State University	MI	Public	40,922	40,922	ROI $210,660
24	Houston City College	TX	Public	40,503	40,503	ROI $158,200
25	American Public University System	WV	Private for-profit	40,074	40,074	ROI $135,394
26	Florida International University	FL	Public	39,508	39,508	ROI $224,516
27	Valencia College	FL	Public	39,486	39,486	ROI $170,779
28	California State University-Fullerton	CA	Public	38,546	38,546	ROI $248,396
29	University of Houston	TX	Public	38,380	38,380	ROI $218,816
30	Indiana University-Bloomington	IN	Public	37,806	37,806	ROI $213,468
31	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	NJ	Public	37,751	37,751	ROI $216,913
32	University of South Florida	FL	Public	37,207	37,207	ROI $218,380
33	University of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	Public	36,902	36,902	ROI $255,566
34	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	IL	Public	36,258	36,258	ROI $295,067
35	Texas State University	TX	Public	36,177	36,177	ROI $176,516
36	California State University-Long Beach	CA	Public	35,924	35,924	ROI $233,102
37	University of Florida	FL	Public	35,629	35,629	ROI $289,958
38	San Diego State University	CA	Public	35,377	35,377	ROI $221,714
39	University of California-San Diego	CA	Public	34,948	34,948	ROI $319,354
40	University of North Texas	TX	Public	34,341	34,341	ROI $180,506
41	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	Public	34,177	34,177	ROI $326,971
42	Connecticut State Community College	CT	Public	33,645	33,645	ROI $158,618
43	University of California-Los Angeles	CA	Public	33,475	33,475	ROI $295,349
44	The University of Alabama	AL	Public	33,227	33,227	ROI $167,105
45	University of California-Berkeley	CA	Public	33,068	33,068	ROI $353,372
46	Northern Virginia Community College	VA	Public	33,048	33,048	ROI $204,930
47	Brigham Young University	UT	Private nonprofit	32,952	32,952	ROI $255,650
48	California State University-Northridge	CA	Public	32,691	32,691	ROI $223,868
49	Texas Tech University	TX	Public	32,394	32,394	ROI $192,353
50	The University of Texas at Arlington	TX	Public	32,294	32,294	ROI $242,396
51	University of California-Davis	CA	Public	32,253	32,253	ROI $277,662
52	Florida State University	FL	Public	32,212	32,212	ROI $222,714
53	University of Georgia	GA	Public	32,137	32,137	ROI $245,766
54	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	WA	Public	31,942	31,942	ROI $283,648
55	University of Colorado Boulder	CO	Public	31,939	31,939	ROI $189,536
56	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	MN	Public	31,855	31,855	ROI $233,570
57	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	VA	Public	30,923	30,923	ROI $250,282
58	Purdue University Global	IN	Public	30,828	30,828	ROI $167,686
59	University of Maryland-College Park	MD	Public	30,760	30,760	ROI $298,522
60	Oregon State University	OR	Public	30,743	30,743	ROI $188,680
61	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	LA	Public	30,594	30,594	ROI $179,190
62	The University of Texas at San Antonio	TX	Public	30,580	30,580	ROI $206,258
63	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	TN	Public	30,418	30,418	ROI $175,542
64	University of California-Irvine	CA	Public	30,197	30,197	ROI $270,102
65	Austin Community College District	TX	Public	30,189	30,189	ROI $183,560
66	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus	OH	Public	29,882	29,882	ROI $130,816
67	University of South Carolina-Columbia	SC	Public	29,820	29,820	ROI $170,586
68	NUC University	PR	Private for-profit	28,918	28,918	ROI $112,892
69	University of Arkansas	AR	Public	28,677	28,677	ROI $179,436
70	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	TX	Public	28,666	28,666	ROI $192,905
71	New York University	NY	Private nonprofit	28,663	28,663	ROI $187,398
72	Utah Valley University	UT	Public	28,453	28,453	ROI $234,450
73	California State University-Sacramento	CA	Public	28,350	28,350	ROI $244,217
74	Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs	CO	Private for-profit	28,086	28,086	ROI $93,650
75	DeVry University-Illinois	IL	Private for-profit	27,825	27,825	ROI $189,766
76	East Los Angeles College	CA	Public	27,753	27,753	ROI $178,153
77	George Mason University	VA	Public	27,752	27,752	ROI $251,850
78	San Jose State University	CA	Public	27,601	27,601	ROI $284,194
79	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	NC	Public	27,371	27,371	ROI $233,282
80	University of Utah	UT	Public	27,264	27,264	ROI $225,018
81	College of Southern Nevada	NV	Public	27,252	27,252	ROI $155,962
82	Auburn University	AL	Public	26,816	26,816	ROI $181,146
83	Georgia State University	GA	Public	26,623	26,623	ROI $133,527
84	Collin County Community College District	TX	Public	26,449	26,449	ROI $191,614
85	Mt San Antonio College	CA	Public	26,140	26,140	ROI $183,744
86	Full Sail University	FL	Private for-profit	25,777	25,777	ROI $-24,425
87	American River College	CA	Public	25,621	25,621	ROI $160,944
88	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	CO	Public	25,538	25,538	ROI $171,200
89	Iowa State University	IA	Public	25,367	25,367	ROI $200,986
90	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona	CA	Public	25,042	25,042	ROI $259,913
91	Broward College	FL	Public	24,922	24,922	ROI $144,768
92	University of Kentucky	KY	Public	24,763	24,763	ROI $171,834
93	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	Public	24,622	24,622	ROI $193,850
94	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	NC	Public	24,453	24,453	ROI $186,392
95	El Paso Community College	TX	Public	24,214	24,214	ROI $150,274
96	University of Missouri-Columbia	MO	Public	23,929	23,929	ROI $189,324
97	Florida Atlantic University	FL	Public	23,757	23,757	ROI $213,482
98	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	MA	Public	23,671	23,671	ROI $219,860
99	Clemson University	SC	Public	23,300	23,300	ROI $215,115
100	University of California-Santa Barbara	CA	Public	23,113	23,113	ROI $253,290