Talk:List of United States public university campuses by enrollment

Error with 2011–2012 enrollment

Someone is screwing around with the Texas A&M enrollment, table needs to be fixed. Rauschpotato (talk) 00:21, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

NYU

NYU is not a single campus. It has never been a school with a single campus. It has many subdivisions in numerous nations London, Paris, Florence, Prague, Madrid, Berlin, Accra, Shanghai, and Buenos Aires. [4] It recently merged with Polytech which is located in Downtown Brooklyn. Polytech has at least 2800 students there. [5]. We should take a look at lowering some of the numbers because I'm 100% sure NYU used numbers from all of these campus' 208.120.47.96 (talk) 21:23, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

If there is a way to find the exact number for their main campus, then we should use it. i searched all over their site and couldn't find a campus by campus breakdown. I do know that NYU is the largest NPO private school in the US, so the number may be lower, but I am still sure it is the largest single campus. Dgreco (talk) 22 February 2009.

what is npo? at the very least you can subtract 2800 from the current total of 38,000. i guess we can find out what the current number of students in each location is. 208.120.47.96 (talk) 05:46, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Not-For-Profit Organization. Sorry. Dgreco (talk) 22 February 2009.

the virtual map shows that it is simply a bunch of buildings. http://www.nyu.edu/about/virtual.html this would be the closest to a campus. This link here [[6]] shows what is around the washington square park location.

• Washington Square Center
  
• College of Arts and Science/CAS (1832)
  
• School of Law/LAW (1835)
  
• Graduate School of Arts and Science/GSAS (1886)
  
• Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development/ED (1890)
  
• Leonard N. Stern School of Business/STERN (1900)
  
• Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/CIMS (1934)
  
• School of Continuing and Professional Studies/SCPS (1934)
  
• Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service/WAGNER (1938)
  
• School of Social Work/ESSW (1960)
  
• Tisch School of the Arts/TSOA (1965)
  
• Gallatin School of Individualized Study/GAL (1972)
  

Which means that:

• NYU School of Medicine (550 First Avenue)
  
• David B. Kriser Dental Center (324 East 24th Street)
  
• Institute of Fine Arts (1 East 78th Street)
  
• New York University Midtown Center (11 West 42nd Street ), as well as Poly Tech are not there. If the numbers of eac of these other schools can be found. Than a more exact number can be found. 208.120.47.96 (talk) 05:56, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

alright, well with that being considered. i'll be adding Touro College 208.120.47.96 (talk) 20:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

NYU also has two very distinct areas Washington Square Park, New York and Union Square (New York City) which serve as student centers.[7] . This adds to its no "true" campus. 208.120.47.96 (talk) 09:28, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

If we were to keep NYU as is. What is really the difference between it and Touro College which as 23,651 students. [8]

i added touro college to the list 208.120.47.96 (talk) 09:16, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Aren't you (anon) arguing that NYU shouldn't be on the list because it has multiple campuses? But Touro also has multiple campuses so neither should be on the list. (Unless the enrollment of the Washington Square Park campus of NYU can be verified.) -Nick^talk 18:00, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

i'm saying its number should be lowered to basically its largest campus. the same can be done for touro. i have already made a list of the campus' . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.120.47.96 (talk) 18:33, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Start subtracting from Columbia University

map of columbia

[9]

medical center 3,231 total [10]

address 630 West 168th Street New York, NY 10032 [11]

40 blocks away.. so it is a different campus. so subtract 3,231 from original number. 208.120.47.96 (talk) 06:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposed Move

The page List of largest United States universities by enrollment (whose talk page redirects here by the way) appears to list both colleges and universities. I think that the name of the page should reflect this. Perhaps “List of largest United States colleges and universities by enrollment” GromXXVII (talk) 13:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

FSU

There have been some edits trying to list Florida State on this list. I don't know where all of the info is coming from, but the official standardized enrollment count for FSU in Fall of 2008 (which is what this table lists) is 38,682, thus it does not appear in the top 15. -Nick^talk 16:54, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I've doubled checked FSU's enrollment numbers from their site and indeed they are not in the top 15. --Scpmarlins (talk) 07:31, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Fall 2009 enrollment

Here's the table from the main article. As you become aware of the fresh enrollment numbers from FALL 2009 put them into the correct spot (do what's necessary) and when it's completed we can put it in the main article.--Scpmarlins (talk) 22:01, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

(List is in same order to make it easier to edit for now)

List of schools updated:

• University of Central Florida
• University of Florida
• Arizona State University
• University of South Florida
• Texas A&M University
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Minnesota
• Michigan State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• DePaul University
• Ohio State University
• Nova Southeastern University
• Liberty University
• Boston University
• Columbia University
• New York University
• Brigham Young University

Swapped UCF into third position (University that was in third put into UCF's old position) according to news articles Jerr (talk) 02:27, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Note - Ohio State is on the quarter system, so their 21st day enrollment figures probably won't be out for a few weeks. -Nick^talk 05:08, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Also Note: Refs for UCF and OSU contradict each other. News articles are not reporting UCF as one of the top five, but UCF's press release claims that it's third. -Nick^talk 02:31, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

UCF third largest university in nation as reported by nine different independent news organizations:
[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
Currently working on getting the numbers for the private colleges. --Scpmarlins (talk) 03:32, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Ten Largest Public University Campuses as of Fall 2009
Ranking	University	Location	Enrollment
1	Arizona State University	Tempe, Arizona	55,552
2	Ohio State University	Columbus, Ohio	55,014
3	University of Central Florida	Orlando, Florida	53,537
4	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota	51,659
5	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, Texas	51,032
6	University of Florida	Gainesville, Florida	49,679
7	Texas A&M University	College Station, Texas	48,787
8	Michigan State University	East Lansing, Michigan	47,100
9	University of South Florida	Tampa, Florida	46,612
10	Pennsylvania State University	University Park, Pennsylvania	43,998

Ten Largest Private University Campuses as of Fall 2009
Ranking	University	Location	Enrollment
1	New York University	Manhattan, New York, New York	44,404
2	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, California	33,747
3	Liberty University	Lynchburg, Virginia	33,604
4	Brigham Young University	Provo, Utah	32,955
5	Boston University	Boston, Massachusetts	31,766
6	Nova Southeastern University	Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida	28,378
7	DePaul University	Chicago, Illinois	25,072
8	Northeastern University	Boston, Massachusetts	24,752
9	Long Island University	Brooklyn, New York, New York	24,449
10	Columbia University	Manhattan, New York, New York	23,196

References

Grand Canyon

I'm a little suspicious of Grand Canyon University as the #10 spot. GCU is primarily an online school, but they have a small campus in Phoenix, AZ. I am positive that their total includes online students (which aren't counted in this list). I will look into it. -Nick^talk 00:11, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

I could not find a place to get exact numbers, but I think you may be right. I added them just for the time being since we definitely know Columbia isn't in the top 10. I also think there could be a few others we have missed, such as UPenn, Stanford, Northwestern, etc... I will continue to search though Dgreco (talk) 01:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

UCF

When you update for 2010 and 2011, put UCF as #2. See article: "The University of Central Florida has become the second-largest university in the nation in student enrollment, surpassing Ohio State."

http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=0024004107a42ec8a012b4426d5b3002e0d&subject_id=0024004102975ad83011b2b83251c0c35

Zach0220 (talk) 09:55, 12 November 2010 (UTC) zach0220

UCF has eleven regional campuses, are you guys certain that the 53,000 student number only includes the Orlando campus? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danwoodard (talk • contribs) 21:49, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

This is addressed by Note B in the respective sections. UCF does not release enrollment for the individual campuses.--Scpmarlins (talk) 23:08, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Liberty University

Liberty University does not belong on this list per this source, which is from the school itself:

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=6925

--Scpmarlins (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Ohio State

I noticed in one of the sections it was referred to as "Ohio State University" and in another section it was referred to as "Ohio State University." This is inconsistent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.205.152 (talk) 14:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Fixed.--Scpmarlins (talk) 19:25, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I question the claim that the enrollment at OSU Columbus was identical in two consecutive years (12-13 & 13-14). That seems more likely to be an error or double report of the same statistic than an actual identical count (the exact number must be subject to chance variation (sickness, death, accidents, costs constraints, etc.) Since the links provided are NOT RELEVANT to the numbers reported here, I am unable to check this claim. (At least not quickly).Abitslow (talk) 00:18, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

2010 Enrollment Table

Another year, another table. The quarter schools should be reported by now. I'll put up a table later to start filling. In the mean time, here's OSU: http://www.osu.edu/news/newsitem2917, and here's ASU: http://asunews.asu.edu/20100909_enrollment samadam (talk) 21:24, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

The table for 2010-2011 academic year should be up shortly, I've been working on it for the past few days now. If you have any more links or information, please feel to post it here. --Nemesis63 (talk) 15:04, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

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2016-2017 TAMU Ranking

Why is TAMU ranked second largest when its enrollment is the ninth largest (50,000)? 70.190.185.57 (talk) 19:41, 20 October 2017 (UTC) Steve

• They are actually 60K+. May have been a typo/formatting error at the time that's been fixed. Buffs (talk) 22:14, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

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Uniform sources

Shouldn't this wiki try to use the most uniform source available for any given university from one year to the next? The values currently in the tables seem a little wobbly. Did ASU really lose more than 10,000 students between 2013 and 2015? Also, where is the table for 2014-2015?

It seems that the Common Data Set should be the universal source for each university. If anyone disagrees, I would like to hear. Otherwise, someone can take the job of updating this, or I'm happy to do it myself when I can. AmericanNinja80 (talk) 21:33, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Extensions of Main University Campuses for Specific Schools, Colleges, or Departments

I think it's worth discussing that some universities have run out of space on their primary campuses, or in some cases just want to spread around their host cities a bit more, and have decided to move colleges into separate mini-campuses around their host cities. Texas A&M did this with their medical school, UCF did this with both their Hospitality and Medical Colleges, and schools like NYU have been this way for a long time. Although physically separate, these Universities consider these mini-campuses and their primary campus all part of their "Main Campus". Students generally take specific classes at these mini-campuses, but still take general education classes and some electives at the primary campus in each city. Should we start considering these factors when posting counts of enrollment? After all, these aren't the same as regional campuses that generally exist more than an hour away from a main campus and duplicate existing classes and majors offered elsewhere. Magicalbill (talk) 23:02, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Agree. I am going to try to go through and correct this as I just caught a major error in how ASU and UCF have been reported on this table versus their actual reported numbers. DesertVulture (talk) 00:42, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

18-19 draft

Starting here in order to get it ready:

Things I discovered

• We probably need to better specify/check that this is by single geographic campuses.
• Georgia State claims 50K+ in this, but it appears to be from multiple campuses...haven't found a single campus readout yet. Sticking with these numbers for now based on what I could find. Most sources seem to site 30-35K @ main campus.
• USF's placement on this list was based on the total of all 3 campuses, not just its largest in Tampa...
• UF includes about 3K PaCE enrollments (have to manually exclude them from the count in the reference). We need to exclude these...virtual stuff complicates things...

We need to audit previous years to check for the same issues

2018–19 enrollment

Ten largest public university campuses by enrollment during the 2017–18 academic year
Ranking	University	Location	Enrollment	Reference(s)
1	Texas A&M University	College Station, Texas	69,367
2	University of Central Florida	Orlando, Florida	68,558
3	Ohio State University	Columbus, Ohio	61,170
4	Florida International University	Miami, Florida	58,063
5	University of Florida	Gainesville, Florida	56,079
6	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota	50,943
7	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, Texas	51,832
8	Arizona State University	Tempe, Arizona	51,585
9	Georgia State University	Atlanta, Georgia	52,814
10	University of South Florida	Tampa, Florida	43,866

References

Texas A&M Enrollment numbers 2014 and onwards include non-main-campus

As noted here: https://dars.tamu.edu/Data-and-Reports/Student/files/Overall_Enrollment_Historical.aspx "Beginning Fall 2014 includes out-of-state distance ed, Galveston campus, Health Science Center Campus, School of Law, Bush School Certificates and Qatar. Excludes ELI and late registrations and some study-abroad students. Unduplicated headcount as reported to IPEDS with the addition of Qatar."

The numbers shown here (69k+) are these inflated numbers and are therefore incorrect for the purposes of this topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.155.176 (talk) 13:37, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

So, the Health Science Center is part of the main campus as is the Bush school. Galveston and Qatar are considered by Texas A&M to be part of their main campus (when students Graduate, their diplomas say "A&M College Station"). Distance education requires them to be enrolled in A&M in-person. Those that are out of state are there temporarily, not exclusively/permanently distance education (such as a study abroad program or medical situation). BUT the exact numbers + any clarifications should definitely be made and included or specific locations excluded. Buffs (talk) 15:05, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

TAMU is largest now

TAMU is now the largest US university (Fall 2018 numbers):

UCF Fall 2018 Enrollment 68,571 https://www.ucf.edu/about-ucf/facts/

TAMU Fall 2018 Enrollment 69,367 https://www.tamu.edu/about/at-a-glance.html

This seems like a really poorly thought out article.

Why do we have the top 10 list for many years in a row?

What would be useful is the most recent year, but extending the list to something like the top 100, or more.

Is there some sort of competition going on to "win" this category? Because the way this article is organized is more like one would expect to find for the Women's World Cup football match or something.

Can anyone explain the value of this article as it is currently constructed?

I came here to find out how does Univ. of Washington (48,000 students) rank? No help from this article.

ZeroXero (talk) 18:34, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Rutgers New Brunswick Campus records far more students than USF. https://newbrunswick.rutgers.edu/about/facts-figures Encycjwp (talk) 20:09, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

@ZeroXero, this is Wikipedia. You are welcome to make improvements! Thanks! Oldag07 (talk) 20:53, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

UIUC?

I wonder why UIUC is not on any of the top 10 lists? They have about [52k students for Fall 2019](http://www.dmi.illinois.edu/stuenr/class/enrfa19.htm), which easily puts them in the top 10. Also, the 2018-2019 table is broken, it doesn't actually sort by rank, if you sort by enrollment you can see the rank goes 1-2-3-4-5-9-7-8-6-10, but I don't know how to fix it. Any help or clarification appreciated, I may dive in and try to add/fix/break stuff in a few days if I don't hear back :) SemanticMantis (talk) 17:08, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Arizona State Data

The data for how Arizona State University is reported has changed in 2019 but it does not reflect that and it seems like the same note is being used. I will try to correct - but looking at the ASU Data it actually makes them the largest University. They report via online and in-person, separate, while all others report as one number.

It seems like this is an error in the merging of the data. I may try to correct for the previous years - but I need to see when it went from being Tempe only to All IN Person versus online. DesertVulture (talk) 00:40, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

I am now seeing this in several universities. I am going to edit this list and try to bring some of these challenges discussed here to the forefront. It seems like this discussion/talk has not been as active. If anyone disagrees with edits feel free to revert some of the changes. DesertVulture (talk) 00:44, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Rutgers University Enrollment Stat is for Entire University System

For 2022–23 enrollment, the statistic for Rutgers includes three separate physical campuses, New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden. However the article says the list does not include "University systems, or universities that have multiple physical campuses". Total enrollment for the New Brunswick campus was 43,859 in 2022-2023. Thaquib (talk) 15:48, 29 August 2024 (UTC)