List of universities in Venezuela by enrollment

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.

List

Universities and other higher education institutions with student population and their location

Rank	Institution	Total students	Cities (Headquarter in bold)[A]	Ref.
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

See also

• List of largest universities by enrollment
• List of universities in Venezuela