Institutions with significant online enrollments — like Liberty, Western Governors, and Southern New Hampshire Universities, and Brigham Young University-Idaho — stood out in their categories for their exceptionally high student counts. The for-profit University of Phoenix-Arizona had the largest fall-2016 enrollment of any institution, but for-profit institutions had the smallest average enrollment among all categories shown.
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Public institutions
Doctoral
| 1. | Texas A&M U. at College Station | 65,632 |
| 2. | U. of Central Florida | 64,088 |
| 3. | Ohio State U. | 59,482 |
| 4. | Florida International U. | 55,003 |
| 5. | U. of Florida | 52,367 |
| 6. | Arizona State U. | 51,869 |
| 7. | U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 51,579 |
| 8. | U. of Texas at Austin | 51,331 |
| 9. | Michigan State U. | 50,340 |
| 10. | Rutgers U. at New Brunswick | 50,146 |
| | Average for 192 institutions | 24,804 |
Master’s
| 1. | U. of Maryland University College | 57,529 |
| 2. | California State U. at Northridge | 39,916 |
| 3. | California State U. at Long Beach | 37,776 |
| 4. | Utah Valley U. | 34,978 |
| 5. | San Jose State U. | 32,154 |
| 6. | California State U. at Sacramento | 30,510 |
| 7. | California State U. at Los Angeles | 27,827 |
| 8. | Weber State U. | 26,809 |
| 9. | Grand Valley State U. | 25,460 |
| 10. | California State Polytechnic U. at Pomona | 25,326 |
| | Average for 269 institutions | 9,163 |
Baccalaureate
| 1. | City U. of New York, New York City College of Technology | 17,282 |
| 2. | Georgia Gwinnett College | 12,052 |
| 3. | Colorado Mesa U. | 9,735 |
| 4. | State U. of New York College at Farmingdale | 9,235 |
| 5. | City U. of New York, York College | 8,360 |
| 6. | Middle Georgia State U. | 7,714 |
| 7. | City U. of New York Medgar Evers College | 6,819 |
| 8. | U of Arkansas at Fort Smith | 6,584 |
| 9. | Missouri Southern State U. | 6,231 |
| 10. | Purdue U. Northwest | 6,092 |
| | Average for 88 institutions | 2,983 |
Associate and baccalaureate/associate
| 1. | Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana | 78,910 |
| 2. | Lone Star College system | 71,551 |
| 3. | Houston Community College | 57,032 |
| 4. | Miami Dade College | 55,206 |
| 5. | Tarrant County College District | 51,350 |
| 6. | Northern Virginia Community College | 50,835 |
| 7. | Valencia College | 44,515 |
| 8. | Broward College | 43,700 |
| 9. | Austin Community College | 41,543 |
| 10. | East Los Angeles College | 36,970 |
| | Average for 979 institutions | 7,045 |
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Private nonprofit institutions
Doctoral
| 1. | Liberty U. | 75,756 |
| 2. | New York U. | 50,550 |
| 3. | U. of Southern California | 43,871 |
| 4. | Brigham Young U. | 34,240 |
| 5. | Boston U. | 32,695 |
| 6. | Harvard U. | 29,908 |
| 7. | Columbia U. | 29,372 |
| 8. | George Washington U. | 27,159 |
| 9. | U. of Pennsylvania | 24,960 |
| 10. | Drexel U. | 24,232 |
| | Average for 117 institutions | 11,777 |
Master’s
| 1. | Western Governors U. | 84,289 |
| 2. | Southern New Hampshire U. | 73,177 |
| 3. | Excelsior College | 41,658 |
| 4. | Keiser U. at Ft. Lauderdale | 19,688 |
| 5. | National U. | 17,192 |
| 6. | Columbia College (Mo.) | 16,413 |
| 7. | Saint Leo U. | 14,649 |
| 8. | Webster U. | 13,906 |
| 9. | Touro College (N.Y.) | 13,528 |
| 10. | Park U. | 11,227 |
| | Average for 407 institutions | 3,867 |
Baccalaureate
| 1. | Brigham Young U.-Idaho | 44,821 |
| 2. | High Point U. | 4,837 |
| 3. | Ohio Christian U. | 4,661 |
| 4. | U. of Richmond | 4,131 |
| 5. | Bethune-Cookman U. | 3,934 |
| 6. | Calvin College | 3,918 |
| 7. | Cedarville U. | 3,714 |
| 8. | Trine U. | 3,712 |
| 9. | Bucknell U. | 3,626 |
| 10. | U. of Mount Olive | 3,430 |
| | Average for 401 institutions | 1,512 |
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All for-profit institutions
| 1. | U. of Phoenix-Arizona | 131,629 |
| 2. | Grand Canyon U. | 75,834 |
| 3. | Walden U. | 52,565 |
| 4. | American Public U. system | 48,623 |
| 5. | Ashford U. | 41,361 |
| 6. | Capella U. | 37,569 |
| 7. | Kaplan U. at Davenport (Iowa) | 37,494 |
| 8. | Chamberlain U. at Addison (Ill.) | 25,569 |
| 9. | Colorado Technical U. at Colorado Springs | 25,548 |
| 10. | Columbia Southern U. | 21,442 |
| | Average for 1,054 institutions | 1,120 |
Note: Figures include all full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the fall of 2016 at degree-granting institutions in the United States that are eligible to receive Title IV federal student aid. Categories are based on the 2015 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Baccalaureate categories exclude baccalaureate/associate institutions. Associate and baccalaureate/associate private nonprofit institutions are not represented in the table. Colleges vary in whether they report enrollments of all units together or separately. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data