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Colleges with the Largest Online Students

Grand Canyon University has the most online students of 95,569 for academic year 2020-2021 in United States. The number only includes students enrolled exclusively in online programs and does not include students taking some online courses. Liberty University is ranked second with 86,390 online students and University of Central Florida follows them with 95,569 online students. We exclude colleges whose programs are focused on certificate, associate, and/or special subjects such as arts and music from the ranking. Next table shows the schools that have most online students by enrolled status. You may want to check colleges having the smallest online student population.

Colleges with the Largest Online Students
	Name	Total # of Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Programs	Enrolld in Some Online Courses	Not in Online Courses
1	Grand Canyon University Private (for-profit), four-yearsPhoenix, AZ	103,427	85,087	10,482	7,858
2	Liberty University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLynchburg, VA	93,349	79,167	7,223	6,959
3	University of Central Florida Public, four-yearsOrlando, FL	71,881	53,815	15,244	2,822
4	Walden University ^* Private (for-profit), four-yearsMinneapolis, MN	49,695	49,695	0	0
5	University of Maryland Global Campus Public, four-yearsAdelphi, MD	58,526	49,026	4,891	4,609
6	Florida International University Public, four-yearsMiami, FL	58,836	42,747	7,873	8,216
7	Michigan State University Public, four-yearsEast Lansing, MI	49,695	40,974	4,614	4,107
8	University of Houston Public, four-yearsHouston, TX	47,090	39,797	5,400	1,893
9	California State University-Fullerton Public, four-yearsFullerton, CA	42,051	39,292	2,711	48
10	California State University-Long Beach Public, four-yearsLong Beach, CA	40,069	38,645	1,418	6
11	University of Southern California Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLos Angeles, CA	46,287	37,923	3,189	5,175
12	University of California-Los Angeles Public, four-yearsLos Angeles, CA	44,589	35,115	6,791	2,683
13	University of Florida Public, four-yearsGainesville, FL	53,372	35,113	13,937	4,322
14	California State University-Northridge Public, four-yearsNorthridge, CA	40,381	34,499	4,877	1,005
15	University of California-Irvine Public, four-yearsIrvine, CA	36,303	34,140	1,809	354
16	Florida State University Public, four-yearsTallahassee, FL	43,569	33,875	8,480	1,214
17	San Jose State University Public, four-yearsSan Jose, CA	36,208	33,220	2,503	485
18	The Pennsylvania State University Public, four-yearsUniversity Park, PA	89,816	33,037	51,400	5,379
19	University of California-Berkeley Public, four-yearsBerkeley, CA	42,327	31,439	9,725	1,163
20	University of Arizona Global Campus ^* Public, four-yearsSan Diego, CA	31,115	31,115	0	0

^* Online completely college that all programs are offered online exclusively.

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