List of largest universities by enrollment

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This list of largest universities by enrollment in the world includes total active enrollment across all campuses (including off campus study). Enrollment numbers listed are the sum of undergraduate and graduate students in active enrollment. 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
1	Indira Gandhi National Open University	New Delhi, India	1985	Public	3,500,000
2	Allama Iqbal Open University	Islamabad, Pakistan	1974	Public	1,806,214
3	Islamic Azad University	Tehran, Iran	1982	Private	1,500,000
4	Anadolu University	Eskisehir, Turkey	1958	Public	1,041,180
5	Bangladesh National University	Gazipur, Bangladesh	1992	Public	800,000
6	Universitas Terbuka	Jakarta, Indonesia	1984	Public	646,467
7	Bangladesh Open University	Gazipur, Bangladesh	1992	Public	600,000
8	Ramkhamhaeng University	Bangkok, Thailand	1971	Public	525,000
9	Tribhuvan University	Kirtipur, Nepal	1959	Public	500,000
10	University of Pune	Pune, India	1948	Public	496,531
11	University System of Ohio	Ohio, United States	2007	Public	478,000
12	State University of New York	New York, United States	1948	Public	467,845
13	University of the Punjab	Lahore, Pakistan	1882	Public	450,000
14	Andhra Pradesh Open University	Andhra Pradesh, India	1982	Public	450,000
15	California State University	California, United States	1857	Public	417,000
16	University of Delhi	New Delhi, India	1922	Public	400,000
17	Sikkim Manipal University	Sikkim, India	1995	Private	390,000
18	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires, Argentina	1821	Public	316,050
19	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico City, Mexico	1910	Public	314,557
20	Spiru Haret University	Bucharest, Romania	1991	Private	311,928
21	University System of Georgia	Georgia, United States	1931, (first university est. 1785)	Public	311,442
22	State University System of Florida	Florida, United States	1954	Public	302,513
23	Osmania University	Hyderabad, India	1918	Public	300,000
24	City University of New York	New York City, United States	1847	Public	259,515
25	Open University	Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom	1969	Public	253,075
26	University of South Africa	Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa	1873	Public	250,000
27	National Polytechnic Institute	Mexico City, Mexico	1936	Public	229,070
28	Estácio de Sá University	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1970	Private	215,000
29	Korea National Open University	South Korea	1982	Public	210,978
30	University of Guadalajara	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico	1791	Public	209,406
31	University of California	California, United States	1869	Public	209,080
32	University of Texas System	Texas, United States	1881	Public	190,000
33	Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	1538. Reopened 1914.	Public	180,000
33	Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia	Spain	1972	Public	180,000
34	University of Karachi	Karachi, Pakistan	1951	Public	174,000
35	Ain Shams University	Cairo, Egypt	1950	Public	170,000
36	University of North Carolina	North Carolina, United States	1789	Public	169,792
37	Utah System of Higher Education	Utah, United States	1894	Public	164,860
38	University of Wisconsin System	Wisconsin, United States	1848	Public	162,933
39	Cairo University	Giza, Egypt	1933	Public	155,000
40	Uttar Pradesh Technical University	Lucknow, India	2000	Public	150,000
40	Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University	Bhopal, India	1991	Public	150,000
41	Sapienza University of Rome	Rome, Italy	1303	Public	147.000
42	University System of Maryland	Maryland, United States	1988	Public	144,363
43	Modern University for the Humanities	Moscow, Russia	1992	Public	140,000
44	Universidade Norte do Paraná	Londrina, Paraná, Brazil	1972	Private	130,000
45	Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala	Guatemala City, Guatemala	1676	Public	124,000
46	Centre national d'enseignement à distance	France	1939	Public	120,000
47	Texas A&M University System	Texas, United States	1876	Public	114,691
48	Universidad Nacional de Córdoba	Córdoba, Argentina	1613	Public	113,558
49	Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education	Pennsylvania, United States	1982	Public	110,428
50	Shanghai Television University	Shanghai, China	1960	Public	101,218
51	University of Bologna	Bologna, Italy	1088	Public	100,000
51	Universiti Teknologi MARA	Shah Alam, Malaysia	1956	Public	100,000