User:Lights and freedom/List of the largest United States colleges and universities by enrollment

This is a list of the largest United States colleges and universities by enrollment for colleges and universities in the United States.

What this list includes:
 * Colleges and universities within the United States
 * Enrollment is the sum of the headcount of undergraduate and graduate students
 * Enrollment is counted by the Integrated Post-secondary Education System within the U.S. Department of Education.
 * Enrollment is the number of students enrolled on October 15, 2019.

What this list does not include:
 * Any indication of how many of the enrolled students are full or part-time (e.g., some universities may have a high enrollment, but have most students enrolled in only a single class)
 * Any indication of how many students are online-only.

For other lists that measure university enrollment, see the see also section below.

Rankings
The United States Department of Education's Integrated Post-secondary Education Data System contains information on all 6,440 officially recognized institutions of higher education in the United States. The following is a list of the thirty largest institutions of higher education by Fall 2019 enrollment, meaning it is the number of unique individuals who were enrolled in at least one class on the October 15, 2019. Whether a system of individual campuses is counted as one or multiple institutions depends on how that institution is accredited and chartered. All data can be verified on the IPEDS system website.