2026 Largest Graduate Schools Rankings
For 2,241 graduate schools, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus has the largest number of graduate students (32,772) and New York University has the second largest number of graduate students (27,772) based on academic year 2024-2025 college enrollment data.
The below table ranks and compares the Largest Graduate Schools having the largest graduate student population. For the graduate school ranking, we include only schools with more than 1,000 graduate students and less than 50% online students.
Largest Graduate Schools
The following table lists the 25 largest graduate schools with most enrolled graduate students. You can sort the table by a column as you want.
| Rank | College Name | In-State Tuition | Out-of-State Tuition | Graduate Student Population | Number of Graduate Programs Offered | Number of Online Graduate Programs | Number of Faculties (Full-time) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA | $15,962 | $32,144 | 32,772 | 86 | - | 1,165 |
| 2 | New York University New York, NY | $43,848 | $42,726 | 27,772 | 283 | 31 | 7,172 |
| 3 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | $46,956 | $57,973 | 26,009 | 237 | 8 | 4,683 |
| 4 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | $44,013 | $71,515 | 25,936 | 271 | 15 | 2,442 |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | $54,050 | $64,730 | 23,854 | 223 | 39 | 4,020 |
| 6 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | $19,278 | $34,406 | 22,098 | 219 | 7 | 2,498 |
| 7 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | $45,958 | $57,248 | 21,415 | 294 | 7 | 2,117 |
| 8 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | $12,737 | $30,130 | 19,738 | 239 | 62 | 3,134 |
| 9 | Boston University Boston, MA | $51,716 | $67,626 | 18,932 | 287 | 4 | 3,236 |
| 10 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | $28,886 | $57,776 | 18,401 | 280 | 24 | 7,096 |
| 11 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | $37,134 | $47,844 | 17,631 | 268 | 21 | 2,268 |
| 12 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX | $11,748 | $24,505 | 17,611 | 241 | 76 | 3,219 |
| 13 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA | $18,792 | $32,811 | 16,313 | 447 | 21 | 5,407 |
| 14 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | $22,017 | $33,249 | 15,363 | 286 | 20 | 3,767 |
| 15 | Northeastern University Boston, MA | $23,688 | $29,174 | 15,121 | 164 | 8 | 1,766 |
| 16 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH | $13,901 | $42,740 | 14,628 | 229 | 6 | 5,014 |
| 17 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL | $52,679 | $54,655 | 14,457 | 248 | 14 | 2,442 |
| 18 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ | $13,587 | $27,521 | 14,368 | 240 | 1 | 3,369 |
| 19 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $23,241 | $37,689 | 14,284 | 242 | 14 | 3,426 |
| 20 | University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | $14,476 | $29,578 | 13,860 | 212 | 3 | 4,491 |
| 21 | Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN | $9,992 | $28,794 | 13,839 | 177 | 18 | 2,107 |
| 22 | George Washington University Washington, DC | $29,840 | $36,414 | 13,697 | 212 | 31 | 1,272 |
| 23 | Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, FL | $20,419 | $24,830 | 13,599 | 117 | 21 | 879 |
| 24 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI | $12,325 | $25,651 | 13,004 | 258 | 12 | 3,852 |
| 25 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA | $15,866 | $30,968 | 12,812 | 209 | 2 | 1,971 |
| Average | $16,190 | $20,608 | 3,319,810 | 29 | 8 | 598,240 |