Largest Public Colleges With Most Students

Key Admission and Academic Facts of Largest Public Colleges With Most Students

Arizona State University Campus Immersion is the largest school with 80,065 students and Texas A & M University-College Station has the second largest population with 74,014 students. We note again that colleges with more than 50% of online students are excluded for the ranking.

Arizona State University Campus Immersion ranked 1st, up 1 place from 2nd last year. Texas A & M University-College Station ranked 2nd, up 3 places from 5th last year.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $32,771 and graduate tuition & fees is $31,530 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 52.73% and the average SAT score is 1,324 at the schools.

The following table compares the tuition and other academic characteristics between 25 Largest Public Colleges With Most Students.

Table. Largest Public Colleges With Most Students Comparison
	School Name	Total Population	Undergraduate Enrollment	Graduation Enrollment	Men Enrollment	Women Enrollment	Online Enrollment	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 1	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ Public, four-years	80,065 5,270	65,492	14,573	41,414	38,651	4,395	19 to 1
2 3	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX Public, four-years	74,014 3,596	57,512	16,502	39,380	34,634	3,414	18 to 1
3 3	Lone Star College System The Woodlands, TX Public, four-years	68,415 1,694	68,415	-	28,040	40,375	22,589	21 to 1
4 -	University of Central Florida Orlando, FL Public, four-years	68,346 3,535	58,662	9,684	30,531	37,815	13,565	29 to 1
5 2	Dallas College Dallas, TX Public, four-years	64,156 10,625	64,156	-	26,171	37,985	26,527	22 to 1
6 1	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH Public, four-years	60,540 829	46,123	14,417	29,012	31,528	3,835	17 to 1
7 3	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL Public, four-years	56,916 4,237	35,120	21,796	31,000	25,916	9,915	21 to 1
8 -	Florida International University Miami, FL Public, four-years	55,609 3,227	45,688	9,921	23,855	31,754	14,804	24 to 1
9 -	University of Florida Gainesville, FL Public, four-years	55,211 1,839	34,552	20,659	23,787	31,424	8,791	16 to 1
10 1	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN Public, four-years	54,955 2,938	39,248	15,707	24,390	30,565	1,978	16 to 1
11 2	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Public, four-years	52,384 1,908	41,309	11,075	23,099	29,285	375	18 to 1
12 4	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA Public, four-years	52,319 4,170	36,213	16,106	24,831	27,488	1,207	21 to 1
13 7	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN Public, four-years	51,528 4,873	38,593	12,935	29,790	21,738	4,437	14 to 1
14 4	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Public, four-years	51,225 3,318	32,695	18,530	24,739	26,486	1,525	12 to 1
15 1	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Public, four-years	50,637 226	36,344	14,293	23,354	27,283	3,758	15 to 1
16 15	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA Public, four-years	50,028 39,788	41,745	8,283	26,390	23,638	116	15 to 1
17 2	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Public, four-years	50,023 328	39,201	10,822	23,541	26,482	2,728	17 to 1
18 6	University of South Florida Tampa, FL Public, four-years	49,600 1,026	38,047	11,553	21,001	28,599	8,621	22 to 1
19 4	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ Public, four-years	49,403 3,802	38,751	10,652	21,985	27,418	9,617	17 to 1
20 4	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI Public, four-years	48,956 4,316	36,306	12,650	22,993	25,963	1,384	18 to 1
21 -	Miami Dade College Miami, FL Public, four-years	47,245 722	47,245	-	19,732	27,513	17,085	19 to 1
22 5	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN Public, four-years	47,005 3,941	35,660	11,345	24,008	22,997	3,617	17 to 1
23 4	University of Houston Houston, TX Public, four-years	46,700 390	37,943	8,757	22,359	24,341	5,579	21 to 1
24 1	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Public, four-years	46,430 1,841	32,423	14,007	19,869	26,561	607	18 to 1
25 3	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA Public, four-years	45,307 2,980	32,479	12,828	20,985	24,322	1,622	19 to 1
	Average	55,081	43,197	13,504	25,850	29,230	6,884	19 to 1

Largest Public Colleges, But Fewer Online Students