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 in active enrolment (eg. in first semester of academic year; not cumulative over the life of the institution). The initial list of the world's largest universities ('mega-universities') was developed by Sir 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	New Delhi, India	1985	Public	1.4 million [1],[2]
Islamic Azad University	Tehran, Iran	1982	Private	1.2 million^{[citation needed]}
Anadolu University	Eskişehir, Turkey	1982	Public	884,081 [3] [4]
Bangladesh Open University	Gazipur, Bangladesh	1992	Public	600,000 [5]
Allama Iqbal Open University	Islamabad, Pakistan	1974	Public	456,126 [6] [7]
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University	Andhra Pradesh, India	1982	Public	450,000 [8]
State University of New York	New York, United States	1948	Public	413,000 [9]
California State University	Long Beach, California, United States	1857	Public	405,000 [10]
Universitas Terbuka	Jakarta, Indonesia	1984	Public	350,000 [11]
Universidad de Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires, Argentina	1821	Public	316,050 [12] [13]
National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico City, Mexico	1551	Public	290,000 (Aug 14th, 2006) [14]
University of South Africa	Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa	1873	Public	250,000 [15]
Instituto Politecnico Nacional	Mexico City, Mexico	1936	Public	229,070 [16]
City University of New York	New York City, United States	1847	Public	220,727 [17]
University of Delhi	New Delhi, India	1922	Public	220,000 [18]
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University	Nashik, India	1989	Public	218,000
University of California	California, United States	1869	Public	209,080 [19]
Open University	Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom	1969	Public	203,744 [20] [21]
University of Phoenix	Phoenix, Arizona, United States	1976	Private	200,000 [22]
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia	Spain	1972	Public	200,000 [23]
University of Calcutta	Kolkata, West Bengal, India	1857	Public	200,000
Korea National Open University	Korea	1982	Public	196,402 [24]
University of Texas	Texas, United States	1881	Public	185,816 [25]
Payame Noor University	Tehran, Iran	1987	Public	183,000
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University	Bangkok, Thailand	1978	Public	181,372
University of North Carolina	North Carolina, United States	1789	Public	169,792 [26]
University of Wisconsin	Wisconsin, United States	1848	Public	162,933 [27]
University of London	London, England, United Kingdom	1836	Public	159,000 [28]
Cairo University	Giza, Egypt	1933	Public	155,000 [29]
Tribhuvan University	Kirtipur, Nepal	1918	Public	150,000 [30]
Madhya Pradesh Bhoj (Open) University	Bhopal, India	1991	Public	150,000 [31]
University of Rome La Sapienza	Rome, Italy	1303	Public	147,000
University System of Maryland	Maryland, United States	1988	Public	144,363 [32]
Modern University for the Humanities	Russia	1992	Public	140,000 [33]
Centre national d'enseignement à distance	France	1939	Public	120,000 [34]
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba	Córdoba, Argentina	1613	Public	113,558 [35]
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education	Pennsylvania, United States	1982	Public	>109,000 [36]
Shanghai Television University	Shanghai, China	1960	Public	101,218 [37]
University of Bologna	Bologna, Italy	1088	Public	>100,000 [38]
Universiti Teknologi MARA	Shah Alam, Malaysia	1956	Public	100,000 [39]
Indiana University	Indiana, United States	1820	Public	98,543 [40]
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Monterrey, Mexico	1943	Private	95,777 [41]