List of largest universities by enrollment

This list of largest universities by enrollment in the world includes total active enrollment across all campuses, as well as off-campus study. The enrollment numbers listed are the sum of undergraduate and graduate students in active enrollment. The universities included below confer degrees of bachelor-level or higher, and either share a central board of governance and a single chancellor or president, or confer degrees with the same institution name.

Many of these universities, particularly those in the United States, are actually systems of separate university campuses, and may not accurately represent a comparable study body. For example, the enrollment listed for the University of California is the population of the entire student body in the University of California system, which is composed of several individual campuses statewide. All University of California campuses are entitled "University of California" and then denoted further by the campus location, such as "University of California, Irvine". Other states organize their public universities differently in ways that further complicate any direct comparisons.

Rank	Institution	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Ref
1	Indira Gandhi National Open University	Delhi, India	1985	Public	3,500,000	^[1]^[2]
2	Islamic Azad University	Tehran, Iran	1982	Private	2,000,000	^[3]
3	Anadolu University	Eskisehir, Turkey	1958	Public	1,974,343	^[4]
4	Allama Iqbal Open University	Islamabad, Pakistan	1974	Public	1,326,948	^[5]
5	Bangladesh National University	Gazipur, Bangladesh	1992	Public	1,000,000	^[6]
6	Payame Noor University	Tehran, Iran	1987	Public	818,150	^[7]
7	Bangladesh Open University	Gazipur, Bangladesh	1992	Public	650,000	^[8]
8	Universitas Terbuka	Jakarta, Indonesia	1984	Public	646,467	^[9]
9	Tribhuvan University	Kirtipur, Nepal	1959	Public	604,437	^[10]
10	University of Mumbai	Mumbai, India	1857	Public	549,432	^[11]
11	Ramkhamhaeng University	Bangkok, Thailand	1971	Public	525,000	^[12]
12	University of Pune	Pune, India	1948	Public	496,531	^[13]
13	University System of Ohio	Ohio, United States	2007	Public	478,000	^[14]
14	State University of New York	New York, United States	1948	Public	467,845	^[15]
15	University of the Punjab	Lahore, Pakistan	1882	Public	450,000	^[16]
16	Andhra Pradesh Open University	Andhra Pradesh, India	1982	Public	450,000	^[17]
17	California State University	California, United States	1857	Public	417,000	^[18]
18	University of Delhi	New Delhi, India	1922	Public	400,000	^[19]
19	Sikkim Manipal University	Sikkim, India	1995	Private	390,000	^[20]
20	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico City, Mexico	1551	Public	324,413	^[21]^[22]
22	University System of Georgia	Georgia, United States	1931 (first university est. 1785)	Public	318,027	^[23]
22	University of Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires, Argentina	1821	Public	316,050	^[24]^[25]
23	Spiru Haret University	Bucharest, Romania	1991	Private	311,928	^[26]
24	State University System of Florida	Florida, United States	1954	Public	302,513	^[27]
25	Osmania University	Hyderabad, India	1918	Public	300,000	^[28]
26	City University of New York	NYC, New York, United States	1847	Public	516,000	^[29]
27	National University of Distance Education	Spain	1972	Public	260,079	^[30]^[31]
28	Rajiv Gandhi Technical University	Bhopal, India	1998	Public	260,000	^[32]
29	Open University	Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom	1969	Public	253,075	^[33]
30	University of South Africa	Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa	1873	Public	300,221	^[34]
31	Estácio de Sá University	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1970	Private	215,000	^[35]
32	Korea National Open University	South Korea	1972	Public	210,978	^[36]
33	University of Guadalajara	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico	1791	Public	209,406	^[37]
34	University of California	California, United States	1869	Public	209,080	^[38]
35	Technical College System of Georgia	Georgia, United States	1970	Public	191,567	^[39]
36	University of Texas System	Texas, United States	1881	Public	190,000	^[40]
37	King Abdulaziz University	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	1976	Public	177,234	^[41]
38	Autonomous University of Santo Domingo	Santo Domingo	1538 (reopened 1914)	Public	170,530	^[42]^[42]
39	University of Karachi	Karachi, Pakistan	1951	Public	174,000	^[43]
39	Utah System of Higher Education	Utah, United States	1894	Public	171,291	^[44]
40	Ain Shams University	Cairo, Egypt	1950	Public	170,000	^[45]
41	University of North Carolina	North Carolina, United States	1789	Public	169,792	^[46]
42	National Polytechnic Institute	Mexico City, Mexico	1936	Public	166,738	^[47]
43	University of Wisconsin System	Wisconsin, United States	1848	Public	162,933	^[48]
44	Cairo University	Giza, Egypt	1908	Public	155,000	^[49]
45	Uttar Pradesh Technical University	Lucknow, India	2000	Public	150,000	^[50]
46	Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University	Bhopal, India	1991	Public	150,000	^[51]
47	Sapienza University of Rome	Rome, Italy	1303	Public	147,000	^[52]
48	University System of Maryland	Maryland, United States	1988	Public	144,363	^[53]
49	Modern University for the Humanities	Moscow, Russia	1992	Public	140,000	^[54]
50	Norte do Paraná University	Londrina, Paraná, Brazil	1972	Private	130,000	^[55]
51	University of San Carlos of Guatemala	Guatemala City, Guatemala	1676	Public	124,000	^[56]
52	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Thessaloniki, Greece	1925	Public	120,000	^[57]
53	National Centre for Distance Education	France	1939	Public	120,000	^[58]
54	Texas A&M University System	Texas, United States	1876	Public	114,691	^[59]
55	National University of Córdoba	Córdoba, Argentina	1613	Public	113,558	^[60]
56	Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education	Pennsylvania, United States	1982	Public	110,428	^[61]
57	Oregon University System	Oregon, United States	1929	Public	103,074	^[62]
58	Shanghai Open University	Shanghai, China	1960	Public	101,218	^[36]
59	University of Bologna	Bologna, Italy	1088	Public	100,000	^[63]
60	MARA University of Technology	Shah Alam, Malaysia	1956	Public	100,000	^[64]