Top 50 Largest College Libraries

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1. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): 16,832,952
2. University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL): 13,158,748
3. Yale University (New Haven, CT): 12,787,962
4. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA): 11,545,418
5. Columbia University (New York, NY): 11,189,036

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6. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI): 10,778,736

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7. The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX): 9,990,941
8. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): 9,837,021

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9. University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA): 9,151,964
10. Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN): 8,677,974
11. Stanford University (Stanford, CA): 8,500,000
12. University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI): 8,421,198
13. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY): 8,173,778
14. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ): 7,226,744

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15. University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA): 7,203,156
16. University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN): 7,111,311
17. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC): 7,012,787
18. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): 6,438,305
19. Duke University (Durham, NC): 6,174,814

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20. The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH): 6,161,657

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21. University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA): 6,148,036

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22. The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ): 5,998,148
23. University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK): 5,662,666

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24. Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI): 5,609,761

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25. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA): 5,607,915
26. University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA): 5,490,825
27. Pennsylvania State University—University Park (University Park, PA): 5,441,121
28. New York University (New York, NY): 5,382,424

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29. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL): 5,047,970
30. University of Georgia (Athens, GA): 4,810,192

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31. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick (New Brunswick, NJ): 4,722,407

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32. University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO): 4,681,261

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33. Texas A&M University—College Station (College Station, TX): 4,577,498
34. Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ): 4,497,114
35. University of Florida (Gainesville, FL): 4,414,450
36. University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH): 4,379,445

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37. North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC): 4,332,899
38. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO): 4,323,958
39. University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS): 4,318,644
40. Brigham Young University—Provo (Provo, UT): 4,292,056
41. Brown University (Providence, RI): 4,187,257

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42. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA): 4,180,515
43. University of California, Davis (Davis, CA): 4,175,047
44. Tulane University (New Orleans, LA): 4,155,793
45. Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA): 4,128,626
46. University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT): 4,096,396

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47. University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY): 4,029,865
48. Temple University (Philadelphia, PA): 3,990,379
49. University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC): 3,963,958
50. University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD): 3,930,013

Source: American Library Association, 2012

About This List

These are the Paul Bunyons of college libraries. Make sure you leave breadcrumbs when you go looking for a book. Colleges are listed in order of the number of volumes in the university library, using data available through the American Library Association.

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