List of largest universities in the world by country

The following is a list of largest universities in the world by country listing only the largest university in each country.

List of universities

Country	University	Location	Founded	Type	Enrollment	Ref
Argentina	University of Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires	1821	Public	311,175
Austria	University of Vienna	Vienna	1365	Public	91,000	^[1]
Bangladesh	Bangladesh National University	Gazipur	1992	Public	1,000,000
Bosnia and Herzegovina	University of Sarajevo	Sarajevo	1949	Public	30,866	^[2]
Brazil	Estácio S.A.	Rio de Janeiro	1970	Private	215,000
Canada	Université du Québec	Quebec	1968	Public	87,000
China	Shanghai Open University	Shanghai	1960	Public	80,000
Denmark	Aarhus University	Aarhus	1928	Public	43,600
Dominican Republic	Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo	Santo Domingo	1538	Public	170,530
Egypt	Ain Shams University	Cairo	1950	Public	170,000
Finland	University of Helsinki	Helsinki	1640	Public	36,500
France	Centre national d'enseignement à distance		1939	Public	120,000
Germany	University of Hagen	Hagen	1974	Public	76,689
Greece	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Thessaloniki	1925	Public	73,498	^[3]
Guatemala	Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala	Guatemala City	1676	Public	153,000
Iceland	University of Iceland	Reykjavík	1911	Public	13,782	^[4]
India	Indira Gandhi National Open University	Delhi	1985	Public	4,000,000	^[5]
Indonesia	Universitas Terbuka	Jakarta	1984	Public	585,700
Iran	Islamic Azad University	Tehran	1982	Private	1,500,000
Italy	Sapienza University of Rome	Rome	1303	Public	112,564	^[6]
Malaysia	Universiti Teknologi MARA	Shah Alam	1956	Public	100,000
Mexico	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico City	1551	Public	330,382	^[7]^[8]
Nepal	Tribhuvan University	Kirtipur	1959	Public	143,899
Norway	University of Oslo	Oslo	1811	Public	27,628
Pakistan	Allama Iqbal Open University	Islamabad	1974	Public	1,121,038
Philippines	Polytechnic University of the Philippines	Manila	1904	State	68,249	^[9]
Romania	Spiru Haret University	Bucharest	1991	Private	311,928
Russia	Modern University for the Humanities	Moscow	1992	Private	200,000
Saudi Arabia	King Abdulaziz University	Jeddah	1976	Public	177,234	^[10]
Singapore	National University of Singapore	Kent Ridge	1905	Public	38,300	^[11]
South Africa	University of South Africa	Pretoria	1873	Public	328,179
South Korea	Korea National Open University	Seoul	1972	Public	173,758
Spain	National University of Distance Education	Madrid	1972	Public	260,079
Sweden	Lund University	Lund	1666	Public	30,646	^[12]
Switzerland	University of Zurich	Zurich	1833^[13]	Public	26,356	^[14]^[15]
Slovenia	University of Ljubljana	Ljubljana	1919	Public	48,821
Thailand	Ramkhamhaeng University	Bangkok	1971	Public	525,000
Turkey	Anadolu University	Eskişehir	1958	Public	1,969,733
Trinidad and Tobago	University of the West Indies	Saint Augustine	1960	Public	60,000+
United Kingdom	Open University	Milton Keynes	1969	Public	253,075
United States	University System of Ohio	Ohio	2007	Public	527,127	^[16]
Venezuela	Universidad Central de Venezuela	Caracas	1721	Public	57,569