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Largest Massachusetts Colleges with Most Enrollment

Boston University has the most students of 36,104 for academic year 2021-2022 in Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts-Amherst is ranked second with 32,045 students and Harvard University follows them with 31,345 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
36,10420,78515,319
2University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Public, four-yearsAmherst, MA
32,04516,48815,557
3Harvard University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA
31,34516,56714,778
4Northeastern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
28,16714,48113,686
5University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Public, four-yearsLowell, MA
17,5977,51810,079
6University of Massachusetts-Boston
Public, four-yearsBoston, MA
15,6379,3546,283
7Boston College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChestnut Hill, MA
15,5778,5137,064
8Tufts University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMedford, MA
13,2937,7465,547
9Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA
11,9345,0036,931
10Bridgewater State University
Public, four-yearsBridgewater, MA
9,9426,1733,769
11University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Public, four-yearsNorth Dartmouth, MA
7,7174,0413,676
12Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWorcester, MA
7,2302,6974,533
13Salem State University
Public, four-yearsSalem, MA
7,1314,8692,262
14Fitchburg State University
Public, four-yearsFitchburg, MA
6,6744,1042,570
15Suffolk University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
6,6474,0132,634
16Simmons University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
5,9845,500484
17Emerson College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
5,9004,2141,686
18Brandeis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWaltham, MA
5,5583,2472,311
19Merrimack College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNorth Andover, MA
5,4523,1702,282
20Worcester State University
Public, four-yearsWorcester, MA
5,4173,4961,921