<p>I always thought Ohio State was the largest. Could be wrong, though.</p>
<p>ETA: For student population, that is.</p>
<p>Here's all of the UCs so we can finally settle it (all numbers in acres, info taken from the fact sheets at the bottom of this</a> page). </p>
<p>UC Davis: 5300
UC Santa Cruz: 3008
UC San Diego: 2040
UC Irvine: 1500
UC Berkeley: 1290
UC Riverside: 1160
UC Santa Barbara: 990
UC Los Angeles: 419</p>
<p>Of course, a lot of these include areas without much human population/activity.</p>
<p>Oh, perhaps it just has the most land on which to develop <em>shrug</em>. That must have been it. Thanks, rc251.</p>
<p>There are others, like Berry College, that boast enormous numbers, but I wonder if that land is 100% owned by the school and/or situated at a single campus site? </p>
<p>I always see on the net that a "Stanford University owns 8,180 acres (32 km²), making it one of the largest university campuses in the world..." but don't see an "ownership" statement from Berry College. Purdue (18,209 acres and 69,000 students) boasts large numbers as well, but don't know if that is for a single campus or multiple sites.</p>
<p>Maybe the discrepancy has to do with private school land ownership (Stanford) vs. public land-grant ownership (Purdue). I also know that Purdue is considered a "university system" with multiple campus sites in Indiana. There is a data digest document on the college website that suggests the West Lafayette (mail) campus covers nearly 2,500 acres, which is still a lot, but is not the same as saying 18,209 acres.</p>
<p>Berkeley's number is accurate, but not a fair depiction, since it includes all the hills up Strawberry Canyon to past the cyclotron, where few ever dare to tread. The main campus, where 99% of the activity occurs, is much smaller.</p>
<p>A related question: does anyone know which schools have the most buildings/facilities on a per-student basis? Is there a national or regional standard for this?</p>
<p>U of Michigan has massive amounts of square footage. Its physical plant is among the largest in the country.</p>
<p>There are others, like Berry College, that boast enormous numbers, but I wonder if that land is 100% owned by the school and/or situated at a single campus site? </p>
<p>Berry College owns every inch of the 28,000 acres on a single campus site (it was part of the original gift from Martha Berry), and the college actually uses it in some of its environmental studies courses. (In contrast, lots of Stanford is made up of business space that is rented out.)</p>
<p>They also have the 13th largest endowment of any liberal arts college in the United States, larger than Davidson, Macalester, Mount Holyoke, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, etc. And, per student, I think larger than Stanford's or Duke's. Faculty/student ratio of 11 to 1, and they all teach. 95% of students receive financial aid. </p>
<p>Besides Berry, Berea College has more than 10,000 acres (also larger than Stanford), has an endowment 60% larger than Berry's (and with a smaller student body) (making it 8th or 9th among liberal arts colleges), is older than Stanford, and, as a college, older than Duke, and 100% of students attend tuition-free. (tough to get in, though, and they have a higher yield than either Stanford or Duke.)</p>
<p>Sewanee - The University of the South is a 10,000 acre domain (owned by the college). Don't think any other colleges can top that.</p>
<p>Paul Smith's College-14,200 acres and gorgeous acres ,too (Upstate NY). Clemson-1400 acre main campus surrounded by 17,000 acres of forest and farm.</p>
<p>Technically, Dartmouth owns 26,800 acres, so I guess it's the largest so far.</p>
<p>Nope. Berry is still larger. And it is a single campus site.</p>
<p>I agree with mini. We need to look at contiguous or nearly contiguous tracts. If we move to U owned land, well-the jig is up and we all bow down to those nasty t-sips at Texas University with 2 million acres .</p>
<p>Duke 9350 acres
Stanford 8180 acres
UCD 5300 acres
Michigan State 5200 acres
Texas A&M 5200 acres</p>
<p>The largest is Deep Springs College, I believe the own 50,000 acres of desert land, which streches across two states! <a href="http://www.deepsprings.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.deepsprings.edu/</a></p>
<p>Purdue's got like 2468 acres of campus all of it i hear is developed land and not some forest or desert....</p>
<p>To clarify about the Stanford campus (seeing as how I grew up on it), land that is leased to the city of Palo Alto (because Leland Stanford's will prohibited the sale of any of his land), such as the land HP is on, is not counted as part of the university. The rolling hills and Jasper Ridge ecological reserve are counted for totall area. Stanford says that over 50% of the campus is farm land, maybe one reason it is nicknamed "the farm." However, the main campus is still quite large and spread out, very similar to UC Davis.</p>
<p>Also, the reason that the mail is sent to Stanford, CA is because the campus is not part of Palo Alto. I am not a resident of Palo Alto, but Stanford. There is no town of Stanford, however, and it is just part of Santa Clara county.</p>
<p>In terms of pure campus size (not land ownership), neither Stanford nor Duke make the top 5. </p>
<h1>1 Berry College in Georgia has like 28,000 acres.</h1>
<h1>2 US Air Force Academy has roughly 18,000 acres.</h1>
<h1>3 US Military Academy has close to 17,000 acres.</h1>
<h1>4 Paul Smith's College in NY has 15,000 acres.</h1>
<h1>5 Deep Springs College has 10,000 acres</h1>
<h1>6 University of the South (Sewanee) has 10,000 acres</h1>
<h1>7 Stanford University has 8,800 acres</h1>
<h1>8 Duke University has about 8,500 acres</h1>
<h1>9 New Mexico State University has over 6,000 acres.</h1>
<h1>10 Penn State has 6,000 acres.</h1>
<p>Other huge campuses (over 3,000 acres) include CPSLO, Texas A&M, Michigan, Michigan State, Tuskegee, UC-Davis.</p>
<p>UTexas owns huge chunks of west Texas and derives oil revenue from it, along with all kinds of ag. Texas A&M has agricultural extension fields all over the state as well. When you start talking ownership, rather than main campus, it gets really fuzzy fast.</p>
<p>UTexas has something over 2.1 million acres in west Texas.</p>