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Largest Massachusetts Colleges with Most Enrollment

Boston University has the most students of 36,714 for academic year 2022-2023 in Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts-Amherst is ranked second with 32,229 students and Harvard University follows them with 30,631 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 Massachusetts Colleges with Most Enrollment
NameTotal # of StudentsFemaleMale
1Boston University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
36,71421,06815,646
2University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Public, four-yearsAmherst, MA
32,22916,54015,689
3Harvard University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA
30,63116,42414,207
4Northeastern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
30,01315,74714,266
5University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Public, four-yearsLowell, MA
17,1537,4109,743
6University of Massachusetts-Boston
Public, four-yearsBoston, MA
15,5869,1616,425
7Boston College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChestnut Hill, MA
15,2878,3496,938
8Tufts University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMedford, MA
13,4317,9095,522
9Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA
11,8585,0746,784
10Bridgewater State University
Public, four-yearsBridgewater, MA
9,6045,8493,755
11University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Public, four-yearsNorth Dartmouth, MA
7,4573,9013,556
12Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWorcester, MA
7,3082,6054,703
13Suffolk University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
6,7344,2242,510
14Fitchburg State University
Public, four-yearsFitchburg, MA
6,5544,0672,487
15Salem State University
Public, four-yearsSalem, MA
6,5394,4892,050
16Emerson College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
5,8914,2271,664
17Simmons University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
5,7105,270440
18Brandeis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWaltham, MA
5,5813,1732,408
19Merrimack College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNorth Andover, MA
5,5053,1612,344
20Worcester State University
Public, four-yearsWorcester, MA
5,3113,3971,914