The Top 50 Largest College Libraries

These are the Paul Bunyons of college libraries. Make sure you leave breadcrumbs when you go looking for a book. Colleges are listed in order of the number of volumes in the university library.

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  1. Harvard University: 15,826,570 (Cambridge, MA) (8 scholarships available)
  2. Yale University: 12,368,757 (New Haven, CT) (16 scholarships available)
  3. University of Toronto: 10,536,868 (Toronto, ON) (2 scholarships available)
  4. University of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign: 10,524,935 (Champaign, IL) (16 scholarships available)
  5. University of California -- Berkeley: 10,094,417 (Berkeley, CA) (16 scholarships available)
  6. Columbia University: 9,455,312 (New York, NY) (17 scholarships available)
  7. University of Texas -- Austin: 9,022,363 (Austin, TX) (34 scholarships available)
  8. University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor: 8,273,050 (Ann Arbor, MI) (14 scholarships available)
  9. University of California -- Los Angeles: 8,157,182 (Los Angeles, CA) (20 scholarships available)
  10. University of Wisconsin -- Madison: 8,015,081 (Madison, WI) (8 scholarships available)
  11. Cornell University: 7,785,263 (Ithaca, NY) (14 scholarships available)
  12. University of Chicago: 7,765,583 (Chicago, IL) (12 scholarships available)
  13. Indiana University Bloomington: 7,374,784 (Bloomington, IN) (6 scholarships available)
  14. University of Washington: 7,111,065 (Seattle, WA) (10 scholarships available)
  15. University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities: 6,713,629 (Minneapolis, MN) (17 scholarships available)
  16. Princeton University: 6,618,464 (Princeton, NJ) (10 scholarships available)
  17. University of Alberta: 6,416,254 (Edmonton, CAN) (13 scholarships available)
  18. Ohio State University -- Columbus: 6,180,744 (Columbus, OH) (20 scholarships available)
  19. University of Pennsylvania: 5,880,460 (Philadelphia, PA) (8 scholarships available)
  20. The University of British Columbia: 5,820,527 (Vancouver, CAN) (3 scholarships available)
  21. University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: 5,816,677 (Chapel Hill, NC) (6 scholarships available)
  22. Duke University: 5,665,241 (Durham, NC) (10 scholarships available)
  23. University of Arizona: 5,533,482 (Tucson, AZ) (13 scholarships available)
  24. New York University: 5,144,879 (New York, NY) (15 scholarships available)
  25. University of Virginia: 5,102,954 (Charlottesville, VA) (3 scholarships available)
  26. Pennsylvania State University -- University Park: 5,069,854 (University Park, PA) (7 scholarships available)
  27. University of Oklahoma: 4,918,351 (Norman, OK) (109 scholarships available)
  28. University of Pittsburgh: 4,909,264 (Pittsburgh, PA) (13 scholarships available)
  29. Michigan State University: 4,864,603 (East Lansing, MI) (26 scholarships available)
  30. Northwestern University: 4,687,828 (Evanston, IL) (15 scholarships available)
  31. University of Iowa: 4,592,560 (Iowa City, IA) (13 scholarships available)
  32. University of Georgia: 4,345,939 (Athens, GA) (15 scholarships available)
  33. Arizona State University: 4,254,719 (Tempe, AZ) (48 scholarships available)
  34. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey -- New: 4,203,237 (Piscataway, NJ) (6 scholarships available)
  35. University of Kansas: 4,194,283 (Lawrence, KS) (22 scholarships available)
  36. University of Florida: 4,178,355 (Gainesville, FL) (174 scholarships available)
  37. University of Southern California: 3,968,814 (Los Angeles, CA) (27 scholarships available)
  38. Washington University in St. Louis: 3,947,725 (St. Louis, MO) (27 scholarships available)
  39. Brigham Young University -- Provo: 3,738,847 (Provo, UT) (5 scholarships available)
  40. North Carolina State University -- Raleigh: 3,687,733 (Raleigh, NC) (8 scholarships available)
  41. Johns Hopkins University: 3,686,575 (Baltimore, MD) (14 scholarships available)
  42. University of Colorado -- Boulder: 3,641,096 (Boulder, CO) (79 scholarships available)
  43. McGill University: 3,631,326 (Montreal, CAN) (1 scholarships available)
  44. University of Connecticut: 3,629,755 (Storrs, CT) (16 scholarships available)
  45. University of Rochester: 3,607,310 (Rochester, NY) (11 scholarships available)
  46. Texas A&M University -- College Station: 3,581,226 (College Station, TX) (25 scholarships available)
  47. Brown University: 3,568,944 (Providence, RI) (8 scholarships available)
  48. University of California -- Davis: 3,549,004 (Davis, CA) (14 scholarships available)
  49. University of South Carolina -- Columbia: 3,532,538 (Columbia, SC) (16 scholarships available)
  50. University of Maryland -- College Park: 3,501,054 (College Park, MD) (21 scholarships available)

Source: Martha Kyrillidou and Mark Young. ARL Statistics 2005-06, Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 2007. To order print copies, email pubs@arl.org.

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1/13/10 10:58 AM
Kt G.
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Just wanna throw out there that the five college library system in MA belongs between Harvard and Yale...even though each individual college has fewer books.
11/12/09 9:36 AM
Alloy P.
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nice list!

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