The Largest Colleges

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  1. Ohio State University -- Columbus: 51,818 (Columbus, OH) (20 scholarships available)
  2. University of Florida: 50,912 (Gainesville, FL) (174 scholarships available)
  3. University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities: 50,402 (Minneapolis, MN) (17 scholarships available)
  4. University of Texas -- Austin: 49,697 (Austin, TX) (34 scholarships available)
  5. University of Central Florida: 46,719 (Orlando, FL) (29 scholarships available)
  6. University of South Florida: 43,636 (Tampa, FL) (15 scholarships available)
  7. Pennsylvania State University -- University Park: 42,914 (University Park, PA) (7 scholarships available)
  8. University of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign: 42,728 (Champaign, IL) (17 scholarships available)
  9. University of Wisconsin -- Madison: 41,466 (Madison, WI) (8 scholarships available)
  10. New York University: 40,870 (New York, NY) (15 scholarships available)
  11. University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor: 40,025 (Ann Arbor, MI) (14 scholarships available)
  12. Florida State University: 39,973 (Tallahassee, FL) (19 scholarships available)
  13. University of Washington: 39,524 (Seattle, WA) (10 scholarships available)
  14. Florida International University: 37,997 (Miami, FL) (12 scholarships available)
  15. University of California -- Los Angeles: 38,218 (Los Angeles, CA) (20 scholarships available)
  16. California State University -- Fullerton: 35,921 (Fullerton, CA) (24 scholarships available)
  17. California State University -- Long Beach: 35,574 (Long Beach, CA) (22 scholarships available)
  18. University of Maryland -- College Park: 35,052 (College Park, MD) (21 scholarships available)
  19. California State University -- Northridge: 34,560 (Northridge, CA) (14 scholarships available)
  20. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey -- New: 34,392 (Piscataway, NJ) (6 scholarships available)
  21. San Diego State University: 34,305 (San Diego, CA) (13 scholarships available)
  22. University of Georgia: 33,959 (Athens, GA) (15 scholarships available)
  23. University of California -- Berkeley: 33,933 (Berkeley, CA) (17 scholarships available)
  24. Temple University: 33,865 (Philadelphia, PA) (29 scholarships available)
  25. University of North Texas: 33,443 (Denton, TX) (14 scholarships available)
  26. University of Southern California: 33,389 (Los Angeles, CA) (27 scholarships available)
  27. Boston University: 31,574 (Boston, MA) (16 scholarships available)
  28. North Carolina State University -- Raleigh: 31,130 (Raleigh, NC) (8 scholarships available)
  29. Virginia Commonwealth University: 30,381 (Richmond, VA) (5 scholarships available)
  30. George Mason University: 29,889 (Fairfax, VA) (14 scholarships available)
  31. San Francisco State University: 29,628 (San Francisco, CA) (15 scholarships available)
  32. San Jose State University: 29,604 (San Jose, CA) (13 scholarships available)
  33. University of California -- Davis: 28,815 (Davis, CA) (14 scholarships available)
  34. California State University -- Sacramento: 28,529 (Sacramento, CA) (14 scholarships available)
  35. Virginia Tech: 28,470 (Blacksburg, VA) (88 scholarships available)
  36. SUNY -- University at Buffalo: 27,823 (Buffalo, NY) (19 scholarships available)
  37. University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: 27,717 (Chapel Hill, NC) (6 scholarships available)
  38. University of South Carolina -- Columbia: 27,390 (Columbia, SC) (16 scholarships available)
  39. University of Pittsburgh: 26,860 (Pittsburgh, PA) (13 scholarships available)
  40. University of California -- San Diego: 26,247 (La Jolla, CA) (21 scholarships available)
  41. Georgia State University: 26,134 (Atlanta, GA) (29 scholarships available)
  42. Nova Southeastern University: 25,960 (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) (14 scholarships available)
  43. Florida Atlantic University: 25,385 (Boca Raton, FL) (26 scholarships available)
  44. Northern Illinois University: 25,313 (DeKalb, IL) (15 scholarships available)
  45. University of California, Irvine: 25,229 (Irvine, CA) (15 scholarships available)
  46. University of Illinois -- Chicago: 24,644 (Chicago, IL) (17 scholarships available)
  47. George Washington University: 24,531 (Washington, DC) (28 scholarships available)
  48. University of Virginia: 24,068 (Charlottesville, VA) (5 scholarships available)
  49. University of Connecticut: 23,557 (Storrs, CT) (16 scholarships available)
  50. Grand Valley State University: 23,295 (Allendale, MI) (17 scholarships available)
  51. Middle Tennessee State University: 22,863 (Murfreesboro, TN) (11 scholarships available)
  52. SUNY -- Stony Brook: 22,522 (Stony Brook, NY) (15 scholarships available)
  53. St. John's University: 20,069 (Queens, NY) (15 scholarships available)
  54. Columbia University: 22,317 (New York, NY) (17 scholarships available)
  55. California State University -- Fresno: 22,098 (Fresno, CA) (16 scholarships available)
  56. Old Dominion University: 21,625 (Norfolk, VA) (8 scholarships available)
  57. University of California -- Santa Barbara: 21,082 (Santa Barbara, CA) (12 scholarships available)
  58. CUNY -- Hunter College: 20,899 (New York, NY) (10 scholarships available)
  59. California State University -- Los Angeles: 20,565 (Los Angeles, CA) (13 scholarships available)
  60. Illinois State University: 20,521 (Normal, IL) (17 scholarships available)
  61. University of Hawaii -- Manoa: 20,357 (Honolulu, HI) (26 scholarships available)
  62. University of Colorado -- Denver and Health Scienc: 20,162 (Denver, CO) (74 scholarships available)

Source: Wintergreen Orchard House.

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7/8/10 11:05 PM
Michelle B.
How outdated is this list? The University of Central Florida has long surpassed UF and is now the 3rd most populous university in the nation.

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