<p>What is the biggest school (greatest population of students)?</p>
<p>UT-Austin?</p>
<p>it is indeed UT-Austin. there's ~53,000 students there, and i'm fairly sure at least 40,000 of them are undergrads. If you're from out-of-state you should have an easier time getting in (and not have to pay so much in non-state fees), they're trying to take in less people and more people from other places than Texas.</p>
<p>U of Toronto is bigger than anything in the USA. It's very compact, and doesn't feel overwhelmingly huge.</p>
<p>Here is a list.... According to the list, the largest is Arizona State and not Texas.</p>
<p>The list amuses me b/c until the last 2 years UT-Austin has been reigning champ since 1997. So we can all see where the confusion arose.</p>
<p>On a semi-other note, are they trying to decrease enrollment?</p>
<p>wow I'm thinking about applying to UMN... had no idea it was THAT big..</p>
<p>those numbers are misleading, remember that includes graduate students. The actual undergrad programs are much smaller</p>
<p>But usually the graduate pop is a small fraction of the total pop.</p>
<p>I did not realize that FL has three Us in the top ten.</p>
<p>I don't know if UW- Madison is representative overall of the graduate / undergrad ratio, but I imagine it is close. UW- Madison has about 30,000 undergrads and 10,000 grads. My guess is that many of the state U's on this list have similar ratios of grads to undergrads.</p>
<p>According to that, the State University of New York is the biggest with 413,000 students.</p>
<p>The biggest in the world is Indira Gandhi National Open University with 1.4 million students.</p>
<p>At first I was amazed at the figures too. Then the finer prints say the figures apply to all campuses under the the SUNY system. So are the figures for UC and Cal States ...</p>
<p>"According to that, the State University of New York is the biggest with 413,000 students."</p>
<p>Clearly the "State University of New York" is not ONE school.</p>
<p>The UC system is different than the Cal State system, and the community college system is a third system. IvyHopefulDad, what do you get when you add the total number of the first two, and what about all three?</p>
<p>"...Indira Gandhi National Open University with 1.4 million students."</p>
<p>It must really suck to be in an intro physics class with like 150,000 other freshmen. I'm guessing they don't have very many essay questions on final exams at dear ol' IGNOU. They SAY it's got 1.4 million students, but I heard it FEELS like it's only about 1.1 million students. And if you stay on the side of campus away from the engineering department, it's about the size of Haverford.</p>
<p>lol, it's not just one campus, i think open university means something similar to like the "university of illinois schools" where UIUC, UIS, UIC, etc. are all part of the system, and it counts all those schools in the population, like that school has 1.4 million, but it's all over the country and international</p>
<p>Asians.... always good for a laugh.</p>
<p>Miami Dade College</p>
<p>It helps to know what you're talking about. IGNOU is a distance learning university. There is no actual campus with 1.4 million people. People learn from their own residences. It's for poor and disadvantaged students who cannot attend a normal university.</p>
<p>actually miami dade college might be the biggest,although it divided among four campuses. It used to be a community college..</p>