List of largest universities in the world by country

The following is a list of largest universities in the world by country listing only the largest university in each country.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University, India tops the list with an enrolled strength of over 4 million students.

List of universities

Country	University	Founded	Type	Enrollment	Ref
Albania	University of Tirana	1957	Public	75,000
Argentina	University of Buenos Aires	1821	Public	311,175
Austria	University of Vienna	1365	Public	91,000	[1]
Bangladesh	Bangladesh National University	1992	Public	2,097,182
Belgium	KU Leuven	1425	Private	55,484
Bosnia and Herzegovina	University of Sarajevo	1949	Public	30,866	[2]
Botswana	University of Botswana	1982	Public	32,000
Brazil	Estácio S.A.	1970	Private	215,000
Canada	Université du Québec	1968	Public	92,000
China	Shanghai Open University	1960	Public	80,000
Denmark	Aarhus University	1928	Public	43,600
Dominican Republic	Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo	1538	Public	170,530
Egypt	Ain Shams University	1950	Public	170,000
Finland	University of Helsinki	1640	Public	36,500
France	Centre national d'enseignement à distance	1939	Public	120,000
Germany	University of Hagen	1974	Public	76,689
Greece	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	1925	Public	73,498	[3]
Guatemala	Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala	1676	Public	153,000
Iceland	University of Iceland	1911	Public	13,782	[4]
India	Indira Gandhi National Open University	1985	Public	4,000,000	[5]
Indonesia	Universitas Terbuka	1984	Public	585,700
Iran	Islamic Azad University	1982	Private	1,500,000
Italy	Sapienza University of Rome	1303	Public	112,564	[6]
Kosovo	Universiteti i Prishtinës	1999	Public	41,833
Republic of Macedonia	University of Skopje	1943	Public	50,000
Malaysia	Universiti Teknologi MARA	1956	Public	100,000
Mexico	National Autonomous University of Mexico	1551	Public	330,382	[7][8]
Nepal	Tribhuvan University	1959	Public	143,899
Norway	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	1996	Public	39,000	[9]
Pakistan	Allama Iqbal Open University	1974	Public	1,121,038
Philippines	Polytechnic University of the Philippines System	1904	State	68,249	[10]
Romania	Spiru Haret University	1991	Private	311,928
Russia	Modern University for the Humanities	1992	Private	200,000
Saudi Arabia	King Abdulaziz University	1976	Public	177,234	[11]
Singapore	National University of Singapore	1905	Public	38,300	[12]
South Africa	University of South Africa	1873	Public	328,179
South Korea	Korea National Open University	1972	Public	173,758
Spain	National University of Distance Education	1972	Public	260,079
Sweden	Lund University	1666	Public	30,646	[13]
Switzerland	University of Zurich	1833[14]	Public	26,356	[15][16]
Slovenia	University of Ljubljana	1919	Public	48,821
Thailand	Ramkhamhaeng University	1971	Public	525,000
Turkey	Anadolu University	1958	Public	1,969,733
Trinidad and Tobago	University of the West Indies	1960	Public	60,000+
United Kingdom	Open University	1969	Public	253,075
United States	University System of Ohio	2007	Public	527,127	[17]
Venezuela	Universidad Central de Venezuela	1721	Public	57,569

See also

• List of largest universities by enrollment

References