Largest Universities and University Systems by In-Person Enrollment
About This Dataset
Largest Universities and University Systems by In-Person Enrollment
The world's biggest institutions by headcount are often distance-learning universities. This chart leaves those out and ranks universities and university networks by in-person enrollment, using the latest figure reported for each; several entries are affiliating universities or multi-campus systems rather than a single campus.
Analysis
National University, Bangladesh has the largest in-person enrollment at 3,425,832 students, 1.9 times the 1,800,000 of California Community Colleges. 3 of the 12 institutions shown are in India. Together they enroll 11,282,927 students in person; the smallest figure on this chart, State University System of Florida, is 430,000.
Key Findings
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National University, Bangladesh leads in Students enrolled (in-person) with 3,425,832 in 2026.
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Average Students enrolled (in-person) in 2026: 940,244 · median: 554,716.
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Gap in 2026: National University, Bangladesh is 8× larger than State University System of Florida.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of largest universities and university networks by enrollment
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 2026 · 12 observations
- Measure
- Students enrolled (in-person)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2026.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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