How do we rank these schools? Learn more about our college ranking system.
Note that some schools do not
have enough data to be ranked, and these
schools will not appear in our lists. To find information about a school not
listed below, try our site search at the bottom of this page.
| Rank in California | Highest Enrollment | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2015 | School Name | 2020 | 2015 |
| 1 | 1 | Â鶹Íø of Southern California | 47,310 | 41,368 (↑14.4%) |
| 2 | 2 | Â鶹Íø of California-Los Angeles | 44,537 | 40,795 (↑9.2%) |
| 3 ↑ | 6 | Â鶹Íø of California-Berkeley | 42,501 | 36,198 (↑17.4%) |
| 4 ↓ | 3 | 40,280 | 38,325 (↑5.1%) | |
| 5 ↓ | 4 | 40,212 | 38,310 (↑5.0%) | |
| 6 ↑ | 8 | Â鶹Íø of California-Davis | 38,167 | 33,307 (↑14.6%) |
| 7 ↑ | 14 | Â鶹Íø of California-San Diego | 37,887 | 29,517 (↑28.4%) |
| 8 ↓ | 7 | 37,466 | 35,586 (↑5.3%) | |
| 9 ↑ | 15 | Â鶹Íø of California-Irvine | 36,032 | 28,895 (↑24.7%) |
| 10 ↓ | 5 | East Los Angeles College | 35,403 | 36,606 (↓3.3%) |
| 11 ↓ | 10 | 35,400 | 31,278 (↑13.2%) | |
| 12 ↓ | 9 | 35,303 | 31,899 (↑10.7%) | |
| 13 ↓ | 1 | Ashford Â鶹Íø | 34,710 | 58,104 (↓40.3%) |
| 14 ↑ | 16 | 31,902 | 28,811 (↑10.7%) | |
| 15 ↓ | 13 | American River College | 31,366 | 29,701 (↑5.6%) |
| 16 ↓ | 12 | 29,778 | 29,905 (↓0.4%) | |
| 17 ↑ | 18 | Mt San Antonio College | 29,346 | 28,481 (↑3.0%) |
| 18 ↓ | 11 | Santa Monica College | 28,800 | 29,999 (↓4.0%) |
| 19 ↓ | 17 | Santa Ana College | 28,425 | 28,598 (↓0.6%) |
| 20 ↑ | 28 | 28,036 | 23,258 (↑20.5%) | |
You may copy and redistribute this list, both commercially and non-commercialy, so long as it is passed
along unchanged, with credit to Â鶹Íø (either in the form of a hyperlink or a printed URL).
For more information, please see the at the Creative Commons website.