2025 Largest Graduate Schools Rankings
For 2,298 graduate schools, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus has the largest number of graduate students (28,441) and New York University has the second largest number of graduate students (27,575) based on academic year 2023-2024 college enrollment data.
The below table ranks and compares the Largest Graduate Schools having the largest graduate student population. For the graduate school ranking, we include only schools with more than 1,000 graduate students and less than 50% online students.
Largest Graduate Schools
The following table lists the 25 largest graduate schools with most enrolled graduate students. You can sort the table by a column as you want.
| Rank | College Name | In-State Tuition | Out-of-State Tuition | Graduate Student Population | Number of Graduate Programs Offered | Number of Online Graduate Programs | Number of Faculties (Full-time) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA | $15,570 | $30,646 | 28,441 | 85 | 3 | 1,165 |
| 2 | New York University New York, NY | $43,848 | $41,124 | 27,575 | 278 | 30 | 7,172 |
| 3 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | $46,956 | $56,279 | 26,168 | 236 | 8 | 4,683 |
| 4 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | $44,013 | $68,128 | 26,124 | 255 | 17 | 2,442 |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | $54,050 | $65,956 | 24,273 | 190 | 37 | 4,020 |
| 6 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | $45,958 | $55,440 | 21,291 | 292 | 8 | 2,117 |
| 7 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | $18,837 | $33,640 | 20,999 | 222 | 7 | 2,498 |
| 8 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | $12,737 | $30,130 | 19,890 | 238 | 63 | 3,134 |
| 9 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | $27,524 | $55,052 | 18,335 | 276 | 11 | 7,096 |
| 10 | Boston University Boston, MA | $51,716 | $64,712 | 17,968 | 276 | 3 | 3,236 |
| 11 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | $37,134 | $46,034 | 17,100 | 251 | 14 | 2,268 |
| 12 | Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX | $11,093 | $24,090 | 16,700 | 237 | 62 | 3,219 |
| 13 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA | $18,633 | $32,511 | 16,105 | 440 | 18 | 5,407 |
| 14 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | $21,091 | $31,555 | 15,334 | 294 | 40 | 3,767 |
| 15 | Northeastern University Boston, MA | $23,688 | $28,100 | 15,268 | 155 | 7 | 1,766 |
| 16 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ | $13,389 | $26,735 | 14,419 | 228 | 1 | 3,369 |
| 17 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH | $13,497 | $41,227 | 14,318 | 223 | 6 | 5,014 |
| 18 | George Washington University Washington, DC | $29,840 | $35,154 | 14,181 | 207 | 32 | 1,272 |
| 19 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL | $52,679 | $53,871 | 14,046 | 243 | 14 | 2,442 |
| 20 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $22,348 | $36,244 | 14,029 | 237 | 14 | 3,426 |
| 21 | Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, FL | $20,419 | $24,140 | 13,658 | 128 | 53 | 879 |
| 22 | University of North Texas Denton, TX | $9,062 | $16,622 | 13,649 | 127 | 1 | 1,036 |
| 23 | University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | $13,883 | $28,985 | 13,638 | 210 | 3 | 4,491 |
| 24 | Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN | $9,992 | $28,794 | 13,041 | 170 | 17 | 2,107 |
| 25 | The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX | $10,853 | $25,345 | 12,880 | 84 | 3 | 1,114 |
| Average | $16,133 | $20,153 | 3,280,738 | 28 | 7 | 600,873 |