List of largest universities by enrollment

Rank	Institution	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment
1	Allama Iqbal Open University	Islamabad, Pakistan	1974	Public	1,806,214[1]
2	Indira Gandhi National Open University	New Delhi, India	1985	Public	1,800,000 [2]
3	Islamic Azad University	Tehran, Iran	1982	Private	1,300,000 [3]
4	Anadolu University	Eskişehir, Turkey	1958	Public	884,081 [4]
5	Bangladesh National University	Gazipur, Bangladesh	1992	Public	800,000 [5]
6	Universitas Terbuka	Jakarta, Indonesia	1984	Public	646,467[6]
7	Bangladesh Open University	Gazipur, Bangladesh	1992	Public	600,000 [7]
8	Ramkhamhaeng University	Bangkok, Thailand	1971	Public	525,000 [8]
9	University of Pune	Pune, India	1948	Public	496,531 [9]
10	University System of Ohio	Ohio, United States	2007	Public	478,000 [10]
11	University of the Punjab	Lahore, Pakistan	1882	Public	450,000 [11]
12	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University	Andhra Pradesh, India	1982	Public	450,000 [12]
13	State University of New York	New York, United States	1948	Public	439,000 [13]
14	California State University	California, United States	1857	Public	417,000 [14]
15	University of Delhi	New Delhi, India	1922	Public	400,000 [15]
16	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires, Argentina	1821	Public	316,050 [16]
17	State University System of Florida	Florida, United States	1905	Public	301,570[17]
18	Osmania University	Hyderabad, India	1918	Public	300,000 [18]
19	Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University	Nashik, India	1989	Public	300,000
20	Spiru Haret University	Bucharest, Romania	1991	Private	311,928 [19]
21	Tribhuvan University	Kirtipur, Nepal	1959	Public	290,833 [20]
22	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico City, Mexico	1551	Public	290,000[21]
23	University of South Africa	Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa	1873	Public	250,000 [22]
24	City University of New York	New York City, United States	1847	Public	244,000 [23]
25	National Polytechnic Institute	Mexico City, Mexico	1936	Public	229,070 [24]
26	Estácio de Sá University	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1970	Private	215,000[25]
27	Gujarat University	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India	1949	Public	215,000
28	Korea National Open University	South Korea	1982	Public	210,978 [26]
29	University of Guadalajara	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico	1791	Public	209,406[27]
30	University of California	California, United States	1869	Public	209,080 [28]
31	Open University	Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom	1969	Public	203,744 [26][29]
32	University of Phoenix	Phoenix, Arizona, United States	1976	Proprietary	476,500 [30]
33	Cairo University	Cairo, Egypt	1905	Public	200,000
34	University of Calcutta	Kolkata, West Bengal, India	1857	Public	200,000
35	University of Texas System	Texas, United States	1881	Public	190,000 [31]
36	Payame Noor University	Tehran, Iran	1987	Public	183,000
37	Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University	Bangkok, Thailand	1978	Public	181,372
38	Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia	Spain	1972	Public	180,000 [32][33]
39	University of Karachi	Karachi, Pakistan	1951	Public	174,000[34]
40	University of North Carolina	North Carolina, United States	1789	Public	169,792 [35]
41	Utah System of Higher Education	Utah, United States	1894	Public	164,860 [36]
42	University of Wisconsin	Wisconsin, United States	1848	Public	162,933 [37]
43	University of London	London, England, United Kingdom	1836	Public	159,000 [38]
44	Cairo University	Giza, Egypt	1933	Public	155,000 [39]
45	Uttar Pradesh Technical University	Lucknow, India	2000	Public	150,000 [40]
46	Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University	Bhopal, India	1991	Public	150,000 [41]
47	University of Rome La Sapienza	Rome, Italy	1303	Public	147,000
48	University System of Maryland	Maryland, United States	1988	Public	144,363 [42]
49	Modern University for the Humanities	Moscow, Russia	1992	Public	140,000 [43]
50	Universidade Norte do Paraná	Londrina, Paraná, Brazil	1972	Private	130,000 [44]
51	Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala	Guatemala City, Guatemala	1676	Public	124,000 [45]
52	Centre national d'enseignement à distance	France	1939	Public	120,000 [46]
53	Universidad Nacional de Córdoba	Córdoba, Argentina	1613	Public	113,558 [47]
54	Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education	Pennsylvania, United States	1982	Public	110,428 [48]
55	Texas A&M University System	Texas, United States	1876	Public	103,449 [49]
56	Shanghai Television University	Shanghai, China	1960	Public	101,218 [26]
57	University of Bologna	Bologna, Italy	1088	Public	>100,000 [50]
58	Universiti Teknologi MARA	Shah Alam, Malaysia	1956	Public	100,000 [51]
59	Universidad Complutense de Madrid	Madrid, Spain	1499	Public	98,142 [52]
60	Indiana University	Indiana, United States	1820	Public	98,543 [53]
61	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Monterrey, Mexico	1943	Private	95,777 [54]
62	Netaji Subhas Open University	Kolkata, West Bengal, India	1997	Public	95,027 [55]
63	University of Wales	Wales, United Kingdom	1893	Public	95,000 [56]