The Southeastern Conference is well known for its athletic dominance, particularly in football. However, following the conference’s recent additions of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas, the SEC now has over 600,000 total students.
The SEC is home to some of the largest colleges in the country. Thirteen of the SEC’s 16 schools have over 30,000 enrolled students. The average SEC school has 37,912 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. We used the enrollment totals from the SEC media guides of each school entering the 2024 college football season. These enrollments numbers are primarily from the 2023-2024 academic year.
Ranking SEC schools by enrollment (from largest to smallest)
1. Texas A&M (77,495 students enrolled)
2. Florida (60,795)
3. Texas (52,384)
4. Georgia (40,118)
5. Alabama (39,623)
6. LSU (39,419)
7. Tennessee (36,304)
8. South Carolina (36,200)
9. Kentucky (33,885)
10. Auburn (33,015)
11. Oklahoma (32,676)
12. Arkansas (32,410)
13. Missouri (31,121)
14. Mississippi (24,710)
15. Mississippi State (22,986)
16. Vanderbilt (13,456)
