The country’s largest colleges aren’t always a single enormous campus packed with students.
From giant historic flagships to statewide community colleges, the biggest school in each state can look very different. But those who prefer larger colleges gain access to more majors, extracurriculars, and a diverse student body.
Business Insider compiled a list of every state’s largest college using provisional fall 2024 data from the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).
To better reflect the size of colleges’ in-person student populations, we subtracted students enrolled exclusively online from each…
