World's largest universities

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This list of world's largest universities by enrollment includes total active enrollment across all campuses (including off campus study). Enrollment numbers listed are the sum of undergraduate and graduate students. The initial list of the world's largest universities ('mega-universities') was developed by John Daniel in his seminal text, 'The Mega-universities and Knowledge Media' (1996, Routledge). Since then, many of these universities have grown considerably in size, and others have joined the list. Universities included below confer degrees of bachelor-level or higher and either share a central board of governance and a single figurehead chancellor or confer degrees with the same institution name.

Institution	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment
Indira Gandhi National Open University	India	1985	Public	1.4 million [1]
Shanghai Television University	Shanghai, China	1960	Public	1.3 million
Anadolu University	Eskisehir, Turkey	1982	Public	600,000 [2]
Bangladesh Open University	Gazipur, Bangladesh	1992	Public	600,000 [3]
Allama Iqbal Open University	Islamabad, Pakistan	1974	Public	448,512 [4]
State University of New York	New York, United States	1948	Public	413,000 [5]
California State University	California, United States	1857	Public	405,000 [6]
Universitas Terbuka	Indonesia	1984	Public	350,000 [7]
Universidad de Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires, Argentina	1821	Public	316,050 [8] [9]
National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico City, Mexico	1551	Public	290,000 (Aug 14th, 2006) [10]
University of South Africa	Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa	1873	Public	250,000 [11]
City University of New York	New York, United States	1847	Public	220,727 [12]
University of Delhi	New Delhi, India	1922	Public	220,000 [13]
Korea National Open University	Korea	1982	Public	210,578 [14]
University of California	California, United States	1869	Public	209,080 [15]
University of Phoenix	Phoenix, Arizona, United States	1976	Private	200,000 [16]
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia	Spain	1972	Public	200,000 [17]
University of Calcutta	Kolkata, West Bengal, India	1857	Public	200,000
University of Texas	Texas, United States	1881	Public	185,816 [18]
Payame Noor University	Iran	1987	Public	183,000
Instituto Politecnico Nacional	Mexico	1936	Public	183,000
Open University	Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom	1969	Public	180,000 [19]
University of North Carolina	North Carolina, United States	1789	Public	169,792 [20]
University of Wisconsin	Wisconsin, United States	1848	Public	162,933 [21]
University of London	London, England, United Kingdom	1836	Public	159,000 [22]
Cairo University	Giza, Egypt	1933	Public	155,000 [23]
Tribhuvan University	Nepal	1918	Public	150,000 [24]
University of Rome La Sapienza	Rome, Italy	1303	Public	147,000
University System of Maryland	Maryland, United States	1988	Public	128,052 [25]
Centre national d'enseignement à distance	France	1939	Public	120,000 [26]
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education	Pennsylvania, United States	1982	Public	>109,000 [27]
University of Bologna	Italy	1088	Public	>100,000 [28]
Indiana University	Indiana, United States	1820	Public	98,543 [29]
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Monterrey, Mexico	1943	Private	95,777 [30]