This is a list of universities and other higher education institutions in Venezuela by size of student population, it only reflects the institutions with a source of enrollment, those with no information of the enrollment, were not shown.
Rank | Institution | Total students | Cities (Headquarter in bold)[A] |
Ref. |
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1 | Universidad del Zulia (LUZ) |
75,977 | Maracaibo, Cabimas and Punto Fijo | [1] |
2 | Universidad de Carabobo (UC) |
60,916 | Valencia, Maracay and San Carlos | [2] |
3 | Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) |
57,569 | Caracas, Maracay and Cagua | [3][4] |
4 | Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) |
54,595 (only in Mérida city) | Mérida, San Cristóbal, Trujillo, Tovar, El Vigía | [5] |
5 | Universidad de Oriente (UDO) |
46,752 | Cumaná, Barcelona, Maturín, Ciudad Bolívar, Porlamar, Puerto Ordaz, Carúpano and Anaco. | [6] |
6 | Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacin (URBE) |
31,277 | Maracaibo | [7] |
7 | Universidad Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho (UGMA) |
17,500 approx. | Barcelona, Anaco, El Tigre, Maturín, Ciudad Bolívar and Ciudad Guayana | [8] |
8 | Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) |
16,339 | Caracas, Los Teques, Ciudad Guayana and Coro | [9] |
9 | Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana (UNEG) |
14,563 | Puerto Ordaz and Ciudad Guayana | [10] |
10 | Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) |
11,228 | Caracas and Naiguatá | [11] |
11 | Universidad Metropolitana (UNIMET) |
5,500 | Caracas, Valencia, Maracaibo, Guatire and Puerto La Cruz | [12] |
12 | Universidad Indígena de Venezuela (UIV) |
810 | Tauca and some indigenous villages in Bolívar state and Amazonas state |
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of universities in Venezuela by enrollment.
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