Largest Pennsylvania Colleges

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus is the largest Pennsylvania college with 50,028 students. The percentage of online students is 0.23% at the school.

University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus with 33,767 students and Temple University with 33,196 students are following it in the largetst Pennsylvania college ranking.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% of online students. Instead, you can check them at the largest Pennsylvania online colleges.

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus stays at first place of the largest college ranking since last year. University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus ranked 2nd, up 1 place from 3rd last year.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $43,346 and graduate tuition & fees is $31,812 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 57.50% and the average SAT score is 1,320 at the schools.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% online students. Instead, you can check largest online colleges at the largest online colleges.

Table. Largest Pennsylvania Colleges With Most Students Comparison
School NameTotal PopulationUndergraduate EnrollmentGraduation EnrollmentMen EnrollmentWomen EnrollmentOnline EnrollmentStudents to Faculty Ratio
1
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Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PAPublic, 4-year 50,028
38,886
41,7458,28326,39023,63811615 to 1
2
1
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PAPublic, 4-year 33,767
537
24,4209,34714,13119,63688113 to 1
3
1
Temple University Philadelphia, PAPublic, 4-year 33,196
2,430
24,1069,09014,23218,9642,61212 to 1
4
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University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PAPrivate, 4-year 28,201
163
11,25016,95112,36615,8352,7338 to 1
5
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Drexel University Philadelphia, PAPrivate, 4-year 22,344
872
14,0218,32310,17412,1704,4779 to 1
6
-
West Chester University of Pennsylvania West Chester, PAPublic, 4-year 17,275
339
14,3922,8836,78010,4951,77020 to 1
7
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Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PAPrivate, 4-year 16,002
945
7,0598,9438,9737,0295725 to 1
8Pennsylvania Western University California, PAPublic, 4-year 12,7789,4043,3744,5328,2464,50918 to 1
9Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg, PAPublic, 4-year 12,07411,0161,0584,5967,4781,57919 to 1
10
2
Villanova University Villanova, PAPrivate, 4-year 10,383
487
6,9893,3944,8005,5831,26710 to 1
Average23,60516,4407,16510,69712,9072,05213 to 1