Top 20 largest universities by students · Massachusetts
World, then every country and state with data
Updated · students (students)
Back up to: ↑ 🇺🇸 United States↑ World
Why these 20
Student numbers as recorded in Wikidata (with the source each editor cited there). Open and affiliating universities count every enrolled student, so they top the world list; drill into a country or state for campuses you may visit.
-
1
-
2
University of Massachusetts Amherst
public university in Massachusetts, United States
31,350 · 🇺🇸 United States
-
3
-
4
University of Massachusetts Lowell
public university in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
18,150 · 🇺🇸 United States
-
5
-
6
Boston College
private research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States
14,395 · 🇺🇸 United States
-
7
Tufts University
private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts
12,432 · 🇺🇸 United States
-
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1861
11,836 · 🇺🇸 United States
-
9
Bridgewater State University
public university in Bridgewater, Massachusetts
10,651 · 🇺🇸 United States
How it is measured
Wikidata: universities (public, private) with a student count of 10,000 or more; country and state from the location; the world list is the top 20 of the countries below.
References
- Wikidata query: universities by students, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-19 20:21 UTC.
Massachusetts: more top 20s here
Photo: Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology by Tungsten, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures in rows: Wikimedia Commons, GitHub and the linked pages.