The following is a list of largest universities in the world by country listing only the largest university in each country. This is not a list of largest individual campuses with in-person (non-distance) enrollment. This list includes distance enrollment and multiple-campus institutions.

List of universities

Country	University	Founded	Type	Enrollment	Ref
Bangladesh	National University, Bangladesh	1992	Public	2,097,182
Mexico	National Autonomous University of Mexico	1551	Public	349,515	[1][2]
Argentina	University of Buenos Aires	1821	Public	311,175
Albania	University of Tirana	1957	Public	35,000
Angola	Agostinho Neto University	1962	Public	29,827
Australia	Monash University	1958	Public	73,807	[3]
France	Paris-Saclay University	2019	Public	60,000	[4]
Austria	University of Vienna	1365	Public	91,000	[5]
Belarus	Belarusian State University	1921	Public	25,500	[6]
Belgium	KU Leuven	1425	Private, state-funded	55,484
Bosnia and Herzegovina	University of Sarajevo	1949	Public	30,866	[7]
Botswana	University of Botswana	1982	Public	32,000
Brazil	Estácio de Sá University	1970	Private	215,000
Bulgaria	Sofia University	1888	Public	18 911
Canada	University of Toronto	1827	Public	84,000
China	Shanghai Open University	1960	Public	80,000
Colombia	National University of Colombia	1867	Public	53,581	[8]
Croatia	University of Zagreb	1669	Public	72,480	[9]
Denmark	Aarhus University	1928	Public	43,600
Dominican Republic	Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo	1538	Public	170,530
France	University of Lille	1559	Public	70,000	[10][11]
France	University of Lyon	2007	Public	120,000	[12]
France	University of Toulouse	1229	Public	110,000	[13]
Egypt	Ain Shams University	1950	Public	170,000
Finland	University of Helsinki	1640	Public	36,500
France	Centre national d'enseignement à distance	1939	Public	350,000[14]
France	University of Strasbourg	1538	Public	52,144	[15]
Germany	University of Hagen	1974	Public	76,689
Greece	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	1837	Public	104,000	[16]
France	Aix-Marseille University	1409	Public	80,000	[17]
Guatemala	Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala	1676	Public	124,000	[18]
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	1937	Public	32,000
Iceland	University of Iceland	1911	Public	13,782	[19]
Ireland	University College Dublin	1834	Public (formerly private)	32,900
India	Indira Gandhi National Open University	1985	Public	7,140,000	[20]
Indonesia	Universitas Terbuka	1984	Public	1,045,665 (total) as per 2019/2020[21] 311,028 (active) as per 4 November 2020 [22]
Iran	Islamic Azad University	1982	Semi-private	1,000,000	[23]
Israel	Tel Aviv University	1956	Public	26,023	[24]
Italy	Sapienza University of Rome	1303	Public	112,564	[25]
Japan	Nihon University	1889	Private	70,667	[26]
Kenya	University of Nairobi	1970	Public	84,000	[27]
Kosovo	Universiteti i Prishtinës	1999	Public	41,833
Macau	Macau University of Science and Technology	2000	Private	10,373	[28]
Malaysia	Universiti Teknologi MARA	1956	Public	100,000
Nepal	Tribhuvan University	1959	Public	604,437
Netherlands	University of Amsterdam	1632	Public	31,186	[29]
New Zealand	University of Auckland	1883	Public	33,050	[30]
North Macedonia	University of Skopje	1943	Public	50,000
Norway	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	1996	Public	39,000	[31]
Pakistan	Virtual University of Pakistan	2002	Public	165,000
Peru	National University of San Marcos	1551	Private	37,032
Philippines	Polytechnic University of the Philippines	1904	Public	68,249	[32]
Poland	University of Warsaw	1816	Public	44,400	[33]
Portugal	University of Lisbon	1288	Public	48,100	[34]
Romania	Spiru Haret University	1991	Private	311,928
Russia	Modern University for the Humanities	1992	Private	200,000
Saudi Arabia	King Abdulaziz University	1976	Public	177,234	[35]
Singapore	National University of Singapore	1905	Public	38,300	[36]
South Africa	University of South Africa	1873	Public	328,179
South Korea	Korea National Open University	1972	Public	173,758
Spain	National University of Distance Education	1972	Public	260,079
Sweden	Lund University	1666	Public	30,646	[37]
Switzerland	University of Zurich	1833[38]	Public	26,356	[39][40]
Slovenia	University of Ljubljana	1919	Public	48,821
Taiwan	National Taiwan University	1928	Public	31,758
Thailand	Ramkhamhaeng University	1971	Public	525,000
Turkey	Anadolu University	1958	Public	1,969,733
Trinidad and Tobago	University of the West Indies	1960	Public	60,000+
United Kingdom	Open University	1969	Public	253,075
United States	Texas A&M University	1876	Public	73,284	[41]
Uruguay	University of the Republic	1949	Public	144,108	[42][43]
Venezuela	Universidad Central de Venezuela	1721	Public	41,059	[44]
Turkey	Istanbul Technical University	1773	Public	35,000
Costa Rica	Universidad de Costa Rica	1940	Public	42,750	[45]
Germany	IU International University of Applied Sciences	1998	Private	130,000	[46]