Education
Top 20 largest universities by students · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
World, then every country and state with data
Updated · students (students)
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Top 20 in (36):
Belfast Ceredigion City of Bristol City of Edinburgh City of Kingston upon Hull City of Leicester City of Nottingham City of Southampton City of Westminster City of Wolverhampton City of York Cumbria Dundee City Essex Fife Glasgow City Gwynedd Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Borough of Camden London Borough of Southwark Luton Middlesbrough Nottinghamshire Oxford Renfrewshire Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Sheffield South Gloucestershire Staffordshire Stirling Surrey
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.
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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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom: more top 20s here
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