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Biggest Schools in the World by Country 2024

  • Table displays the single largest university in each country when sorted by attendance.
  • It is entirely possible for a given university to have a larger physical area than the university listed, but a lower overall attendance.
  • Attendance for Trinidad and Tobago's University of the West Indies is listed at source as 60,000+, so the value displayed is a minimum.

67 countries

Country
Biggest Schools Enrollment
Biggest Schools Name
India7.1MIndira Gandhi National Open University
Bangladesh2.1MNational University, Bangladesh
Turkey2MAnadolu University
Indonesia1MUniversitas Terbuka
Iran1MIslamic Azad University
Nepal604.4KTribhuvan University
Thailand525KRamkhamhaeng University
France350KCentre national d'enseignement à distance
Mexico349.5KNational Autonomous University of Mexico
South Africa328.2KUniversity of South Africa
Romania311.9KSpiru Haret University
Argentina311.2KUniversity of Buenos Aires
Spain260.1KNational University of Distance Education
United Kingdom253.1KOpen University
Brazil215KEstácio S.A.
Russia200KModern University for the Humanities
Saudi Arabia177.2KKing Abdulaziz University
South Korea173.8KKorea National Open University
Dominican Republic170.5KUniversidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
Egypt170KAin Shams University
Pakistan165KVirtual University of Pakistan
Uruguay144.1KUniversity of the Republic
Germany130KIU International University of Applied Sciences
Guatemala124KUniversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Italy112.6KSapienza University of Rome
Greece104KNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Malaysia100KUniversiti Teknologi MARA
Austria91KUniversity of Vienna
Algeria85KConstantine University
Kenya84KUniversity of Nairobi
Canada84KUniversity of Toronto
China80KShanghai Open University
Australia73.8KMonash University
United States73.3KTexas A&M University
Croatia72.5KUniversity of Zagreb
Japan70.7KNihon University
Philippines68.2KPolytechnic University of the Philippines
Trinidad and Tobago60KUniversity of the West Indies
Belgium55.5KKU Leuven
Colombia53.6KNational University of Colombia
North Macedonia50KUniversity of Skopje
Slovenia48.8KUniversity of Ljubljana
Portugal48.1KUniversity of Lisbon
Poland44.4KUniversity of Warsaw
Denmark43.6KAarhus University
Costa Rica42.8KUniversidad de Costa Rica
Venezuela41.1KUniversidad Central de Venezuela
Norway39KNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Singapore38.3KNational University of Singapore
Peru37KNational University of San Marcos
Finland36.5KUniversity of Helsinki
Albania35KUniversity of Tirana
New Zealand33KUniversity of Auckland
Ireland32.9KUniversity College Dublin
Hong Kong32KHong Kong Polytechnic University
Botswana32KUniversity of Botswana
Taiwan31.8KNational Taiwan University
Netherlands31.2KUniversity of Amsterdam
Bosnia and Herzegovina30.9KUniversity of Sarajevo
Sweden30.6KLund University
Angola29.8KAgostinho Neto University
Switzerland26.4KUniversity of Zurich
Israel26KTel Aviv University
Belarus25.5KBelarusian State University
Bulgaria18.9KSofia University
Iceland13.8KUniversity of Iceland
Macau10.4KMacau University of Science and Technology

Which country has the largest school in the world?

With 7.1 million students, the country with the largest school system in the world is India. The next country in size is Bangladesh, but this country only has 2.1 million students.

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