Lists and Rankings

The Top 50 Largest College Libraries

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.

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• 1. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): 15,826,570
• 2. Yale University (New Haven, CT): 12,368,757
• 3. University of Toronto (Toronto, ON (CAN)): 10,536,868
• 4. University of Illinois — Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL): 10,524,935
• 5. University of California — Berkeley (Berkeley, CA): 10,094,417
• 6. Columbia University (New York, NY): 9,455,312
• 7. University of Texas — Austin (Austin, TX): 9,022,363
• 8. University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI): 8,273,050
• 9. University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA): 8,157,182
• 10. University of Wisconsin — Madison (Madison, WI): 8,015,081
• 11. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY): 7,785,263
• 12. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): 7,765,583
• 13. Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN): 7,374,784
• 14. University of Washington (Seattle, WA): 7,111,065
• 15. University of Minnesota — Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN): 6,713,629
• 16. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ): 6,618,464
• 17. University of Alberta (Edmonton, CAN): 6,416,254
• 18. Ohio State University — Columbus (Columbus, OH): 6,180,744
• 19. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): 5,880,460
• 20. The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, CAN): 5,820,527
• 21. University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC): 5,816,677
• 22. Duke University (Durham, NC): 5,665,241
• 23. University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ): 5,533,482
• 24. New York University (New York, NY): 5,144,879
• 25. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA): 5,102,954
• 26. Pennsylvania State University — University Park (University Park, PA): 5,069,854
• 27. University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK): 4,918,351
• 28. University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA): 4,909,264
• 29. Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI): 4,864,603
• 30. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL): 4,687,828
• 31. University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA): 4,592,560
• 32. University of Georgia (Athens, GA): 4,345,939
• 33. Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ): 4,254,719
• 34. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey — New (Piscataway, NJ): 4,203,237
• 35. University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS): 4,194,283
• 36. University of Florida (Gainesville, FL): 4,178,355
• 37. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA): 3,968,814
• 38. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO): 3,947,725
• 39. Brigham Young University — Provo (Provo, UT): 3,738,847
• 40. North Carolina State University — Raleigh (Raleigh, NC): 3,687,733
• 41. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD): 3,686,575
• 42. University of Colorado — Boulder (Boulder, CO): 3,641,096
• 43. McGill University (Montreal, CAN): 3,631,326
• 44. University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT): 3,629,755
• 45. University of Rochester (Rochester, NY): 3,607,310
• 46. Texas A&M University — College Station (College Station, TX): 3,581,226
• 47. Brown University (Providence, RI): 3,568,944
• 48. University of California — Davis (Davis, CA): 3,549,004
• 49. University of South Carolina — Columbia (Columbia, SC): 3,532,538
• 50. University of Maryland — College Park (College Park, MD): 3,501,054

Source: Martha Kyrillidou and Mark Young. ARL Statistics 2005-06, Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 2007. To order print copies, email pubs@arl.org.