Ranking SEC schools by student enrollment
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The Southeastern Conference is well known for its athletic dominance, especially in football. The conference is also an academic powerhouse. The SEC has over 620,000 total students with many schools reaching record enrollment figures.
The SEC has some of the largest student enrollments in the country. In fact, Texas A&M has the second-biggest undergraduate enrollment of any school in the nation.
Thirteen of the SEC’s 16 schools have over 30,000 enrolled students. The average SEC school has over 40,000 students enrolled. It is no wonder that with such large enrollments that the SEC is also home to some of the largest college football stadiums in the country.
Enrollment figures include both graduate and undergraduate students and in many cases part-time students. We used the most recent enrollment totals from every SEC school’s official website. These enrollments numbers are primarily from the 2025, but it varied among schools.
Ranking SEC schools by enrollment (from largest to smallest)
- Texas A&M University (81,314 students enrolled)
- University of Florida (61,890 as of fall 2024)
- University of Texas (55,000)
- University of Georgia (43,888)
- University of Alabama (42,360)
- University of Tennessee (40,421)
- University of South Carolina (40,334)
- Louisiana State University (39,672)
- University of Kentucky (38,719)
- University of Oklahoma (36,510)
- Auburn University (35,172)
- University of Arkansas (34,161)
- University of Missouri (32,105)
- University of Mississippi (25,222)
- Mississippi State University (23,563)
- Vanderbilt University (13,670)
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