States with the fewest college students, 2016

Jan. 17, 2017
These states had the fewest students enrolled in fall 2016 in degree-granting colleges and universities.

A little more than 19 million students were enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States in fall 2016, but less than two-tenths of 1 percent of them were enrolled at institutions in Wyoming.

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center says that Wyoming is the state with the fewest students enrolled in its degree-granting higher-education institutions: 30,837 students in fall 2016.

Here are the 10 states whose colleges and universities have the fewest students.

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