Largest Pennsylvania Colleges With Most Students

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus is the largest Pennsylvania college with 50,028 students. The percentage of online students is 0.23% at the school.

University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus with 33,767 students and Temple University with 33,196 students are following it in the largetst Pennsylvania college ranking.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% of online students. Instead, you can check them at the largest Pennsylvania online colleges.

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus stays at first place of the largest college ranking since last year. University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus ranked 2nd, up 1 place from 3rd last year.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $43,346 and graduate tuition & fees is $31,812 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 57.44% and the average SAT score is 1,320 at the schools.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% online students. Instead, you can check largest online colleges at the largest online colleges.

Table. Largest Pennsylvania Colleges With Most Students Comparison
	School Name	Total Population	Undergraduate Enrollment	Graduation Enrollment	Men Enrollment	Women Enrollment	Online Enrollment	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 -	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PAPublic, 4-year	50,028 38,886	41,745	8,283	26,390	23,638	116	15 to 1
2 1	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PAPublic, 4-year	33,767 537	24,420	9,347	14,131	19,636	881	13 to 1
3 1	Temple University Philadelphia, PAPublic, 4-year	33,196 2,430	24,106	9,090	14,232	18,964	2,612	12 to 1
4 -	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PAPrivate, 4-year	28,201 163	11,250	16,951	12,366	15,835	2,733	8 to 1
5 -	Drexel University Philadelphia, PAPrivate, 4-year	22,344 872	14,021	8,323	10,174	12,170	4,477	9 to 1
6 -	West Chester University of Pennsylvania West Chester, PAPublic, 4-year	17,275 339	14,392	2,883	6,780	10,495	1,770	20 to 1
7 -	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PAPrivate, 4-year	16,002 945	7,059	8,943	8,973	7,029	572	5 to 1
8	Pennsylvania Western University California, PAPublic, 4-year	12,778	9,404	3,374	4,532	8,246	4,509	18 to 1
9	Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg, PAPublic, 4-year	12,074	11,016	1,058	4,596	7,478	1,579	19 to 1
10 2	Villanova University Villanova, PAPrivate, 4-year	10,383 487	6,989	3,394	4,800	5,583	1,267	10 to 1
	Average	23,605	16,440	7,165	10,697	12,907	2,052	13 to 1

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