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One thing that is important to consider is the fact that there are a number of ways to measure the sizes of schools. However, one common metric to use when comparing the sizes of schools is the total number of students actively enrolled in schools. If you go by this criteria, then the largest school in the world is the Indira Gandhi National Open University. The Indira Gandhi National Open University is located in the city of New Delhi in the country of India. There are more than 7.14 million students actively enrolled at the Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Country | Biggest Schools Enrollment | Biggest Schools Name |
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India | 7.1M | Indira Gandhi National Open University |
Bangladesh | 2.1M | National University, Bangladesh |
Turkey | 2M | Anadolu University |
Indonesia | 1M | Universitas Terbuka |
Iran | 1M | Islamic Azad University |
Nepal | 604.4K | Tribhuvan University |
Thailand | 525K | Ramkhamhaeng University |
France | 350K | Centre national d'enseignement à distance |
Mexico | 349.5K | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
South Africa | 328.2K | University of South Africa |
Another one of the biggest schools in the world is Allama Iqbal Open University. You can find this university in the city of Islamabad in Pakistan. The Allama Iqbal Open University was founded in 1974. A total of 1.4 million students are actively enrolled at the Allama Iqbal Open University.
The next largest school on the list by active enrollment is actually a system of community colleges, specifically the California Community Colleges System. Obviously, this system is in the state of California. In terms of students actively enrolled in this system of community colleges, there are 2,133,846 students in total.
After the California Community Colleges System, the largest school in the world by active enrollment is the National University, Bangladesh. This university is in Gazipur, Bangladesh. This is a somewhat newer university, since it was founded in 1992. 2,097,182 students are actively enrolled at the National University, Bangladesh.
The trend of most of these schools being in Asia continues with the fifth-largest school in the world by active enrollment. Anadolu University is a university in the city of Eskisehir in the country of Turkey. Nearly two million students are actively enrolled at Anadolu University. More specifically, the exact figure is 1,974,343 students.
Aside from active enrollment, the most common factor used to determine the biggest school in the world is the size of the campus. This is difficult to determine, since many schools do not share the exact area of their campus. However, based on the information that is available, the largest school in the world by area is the City Montessori School in the city of Lucknow, India. The City Montessori School in Lucknow, India has approximately 14 branches spread out all across the city.
There are many universities in the US that have a large number of students. If we go by active enrollment, then the largest university in the United States is Texas A&M University, College Station. The total number of actively enrolled students is unclear, but the figure is approximately 67,580 students.
The second largest university in the US by enrollment is the University of Central Florida. The University of Central Florida is located in the city of Orlando. There are 66,183 students actively enrolled at the University of Central Florida.
Country | Biggest Schools Enrollment | Biggest Schools Name |
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India | 7.1M | Indira Gandhi National Open University |
Bangladesh | 2.1M | National University, Bangladesh |
Turkey | 2M | Anadolu University |
Indonesia | 1M | Universitas Terbuka |
Iran | 1M | Islamic Azad University |
Nepal | 604.4K | Tribhuvan University |
Thailand | 525K | Ramkhamhaeng University |
France | 350K | Centre national d'enseignement à distance |
Mexico | 349.5K | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
South Africa | 328.2K | University of South Africa |
Romania | 311.9K | Spiru Haret University |
Argentina | 311.2K | University of Buenos Aires |
Spain | 260.1K | National University of Distance Education |
United Kingdom | 253.1K | Open University |
Brazil | 215K | Estácio S.A. |
Russia | 200K | Modern University for the Humanities |
Saudi Arabia | 177.2K | King Abdulaziz University |
South Korea | 173.8K | Korea National Open University |
Dominican Republic | 170.5K | Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo |
Egypt | 170K | Ain Shams University |
Pakistan | 165K | Virtual University of Pakistan |
Uruguay | 144.1K | University of the Republic |
Germany | 130K | IU International University of Applied Sciences |
Guatemala | 124K | Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala |
Italy | 112.6K | Sapienza University of Rome |
Greece | 104K | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
Malaysia | 100K | Universiti Teknologi MARA |
Austria | 91K | University of Vienna |
Algeria | 85K | Constantine University |
Kenya | 84K | University of Nairobi |
Canada | 84K | University of Toronto |
China | 80K | Shanghai Open University |
Australia | 73.8K | Monash University |
United States | 73.3K | Texas A&M University |
Croatia | 72.5K | University of Zagreb |
Japan | 70.7K | Nihon University |
Philippines | 68.2K | Polytechnic University of the Philippines |
Trinidad and Tobago | 60K | University of the West Indies |
Belgium | 55.5K | KU Leuven |
Colombia | 53.6K | National University of Colombia |
North Macedonia | 50K | University of Skopje |
Slovenia | 48.8K | University of Ljubljana |
Portugal | 48.1K | University of Lisbon |
Poland | 44.4K | University of Warsaw |
Denmark | 43.6K | Aarhus University |
Costa Rica | 42.8K | Universidad de Costa Rica |
Venezuela | 41.1K | Universidad Central de Venezuela |
Norway | 39K | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Singapore | 38.3K | National University of Singapore |
Peru | 37K | National University of San Marcos |
Finland | 36.5K | University of Helsinki |
Albania | 35K | University of Tirana |
New Zealand | 33K | University of Auckland |
Ireland | 32.9K | University College Dublin |
Hong Kong | 32K | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Botswana | 32K | University of Botswana |
Taiwan | 31.8K | National Taiwan University |
Netherlands | 31.2K | University of Amsterdam |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 30.9K | University of Sarajevo |
Sweden | 30.6K | Lund University |
Angola | 29.8K | Agostinho Neto University |
Switzerland | 26.4K | University of Zurich |
Israel | 26K | Tel Aviv University |
Belarus | 25.5K | Belarusian State University |
Bulgaria | 18.9K | Sofia University |
Iceland | 13.8K | University of Iceland |
Macau | 10.4K | Macau University of Science and Technology |