"Largest"

In California, where all things increase and multiply, the University of California announced that-- not counting correspondence students, extension workers or any students doing work that does not count towards a degree, but counting only full-time students--it had 16,282 students enrolled for the current semester and was by that token "largest school of its kind in the U. S." Columbia University was reported second largest with 11,836 full-timers; the University of Illinois was third with 11,212. (Last year, Columbia reported a grand total of 32,769 students of all kinds; was the largest school of its kind.)