What is the largest university in the world?

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<p>Just a random question.</p>

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<p>population or acreage?</p>

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<p>In terms of total amount of students.</p>

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<p>The School of Hard Knocks: 6 billion undergrads and counting.</p>

<p>har..har...harr...</p>

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<p>Probably some school in China or India I would assume do to sheer population.</p>

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<p>UT Austin is pretty big. 56,000 students.</p>

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<p>Arizona State University is now the largest university in the United States.</p>

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<p>China and India have large populations but you have to realize that a miniscule amount of them go to college...</p>

<p>still though, i'd say the University of Beijing. which also happens to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world.</p>

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<p>UT Austin is nothing compared to the world's largest universities, which have enrollments in excess of 100,000.</p>

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<p>^And the universities you speak of would be?</p>

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<p>I don't know. Nobody seems to want to make the claim judging the blanks the google is returning. The only one I could find is National Autonomous University of Mexico which has 143,405 undergrads according to Wikipedia.</p>

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<p>Damn, that's crazy. What's a class like; 45,000 students? Ay yiy yiy!</p>

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<p>There are several several National Autonomous University of Mexico scattered around Mexico and the US, Texas i know for sure. There is one in San Antonio, TX, and its under the same exact name, so perhaps they are combining the populations. i don't know.</p>

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<p>i dont know about the world, but here's an outdated list (1995) for the US:
<a href="http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d97/d97t216.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d97/d97t216.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>
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still though, i'd say the University of Beijing. which also happens to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

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Peking U (Yes, it has the privilage to keep using Wades-Glides romanization) isn't very big. It has 14,240 major students, 8,498 masters students, and 4,234 doctors students. (In China students always have a masters first before having a PhD.) Source: <a href="http://ww2.gotopku.com/data/detail.php?id=1524%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ww2.gotopku.com/data/detail.php?id=1524&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Tsinghua, equally prestigious in China (and also have the privilage to not using Pinyin) is as not-very-big: 13,772 major students, 8,664 masters students and 4,659 doctors students. [url=<a href="http://www.tsinghua.edu/chn/xxjs/gelxsrs.htm%5DSource%5B/url"&gt;http://www.tsinghua.edu/chn/xxjs/gelxsrs.htm]Source[/url&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p>

<p>As a fact, China increased its amount of college places by opening new colleges, not by enlarging existing colleges.</p>

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<p>Wades Glides sux!!! so inaccurate compared with pinyin</p>

<p>anyway, schools in china dont typically go over 15-20K kids</p>

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<p>feenotype -- it seems like they were indeed combining populations because they list various locations of campuses. If you were to combine the population of the UT system the population would be huge.</p>

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<p>i dont know about the largest university in the world..but the coolest CC;er is GoldShadow..so go to his dedication thread!(CC Cafe)...Please! We need YOU!</p>

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<p>^^^</p>

<p>That had 0 relevance to the topic at hand. </p>

<p>What is the smallest university in the world?
The smallest one I can come up with is Deep Springs College, which has only about 24 students.</p>

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<p>I've heard that University of Mexico, Mexicio City has 200,000 students.</p>