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Largest California Colleges with Most Enrollment

University of Southern California has the most students of 48,945 for academic year 2022-2023 in California. University of California-Los Angeles is ranked second with 46,430 students and University of California-Berkeley follows them with 45,307 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 students by gender.
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Largest California Colleges with Most Enrollment
NameTotal # of StudentsFemaleMale
1University of Southern California
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLos Angeles, CA
48,94526,37122,574
2University of California-Los Angeles
Public, four-yearsLos Angeles, CA
46,43026,56119,869
3University of California-Berkeley
Public, four-yearsBerkeley, CA
45,30724,32220,985
4University of California-San Diego
Public, four-yearsLa Jolla, CA
42,00621,12320,883
5California State University-Fullerton
Public, four-yearsFullerton, CA
40,38623,61116,775
6University of California-Davis
Public, four-yearsDavis, CA
39,67923,41816,261
7California State University-Long Beach
Public, four-yearsLong Beach, CA
38,97322,88616,087
8California State University-Northridge
Public, four-yearsNorthridge, CA
37,57920,99716,582
9San Diego State University
Public, four-yearsSan Diego, CA
37,40221,71015,692
10University of California-Irvine
Public, four-yearsIrvine, CA
35,93719,68016,257
11San Jose State University
Public, four-yearsSan Jose, CA
35,75118,45117,300
12Ashford University
Private (for-profit), four-yearsSan Diego, CA
34,19021,77612,414
13California State University-Sacramento
Public, four-yearsSacramento, CA
31,81818,23213,586
14California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Public, four-yearsPomona, CA
27,50312,72414,779
15University of California-Riverside
Public, four-yearsRiverside, CA
26,80913,61613,193
16California State University-Los Angeles
Public, four-yearsLos Angeles, CA
26,46015,55610,904
17University of California-Santa Barbara
Public, four-yearsSanta Barbara, CA
26,42014,51511,905
18San Francisco State University
Public, four-yearsSan Francisco, CA
25,28214,34810,934
19California State University-Fresno
Public, four-yearsFresno, CA
23,99914,4159,584
20California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Public, four-yearsSan Luis Obispo, CA
22,00010,73411,266