California’s Higher Education System Largest in Nation

A student walks past Royce Hall on the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Calif., on Nov. 15, 2017. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

California is home to the nation’s largest higher education system, with its colleges and universities making up 13 percent of all full-time enrollment in the U.S., according to a new report.

The Public Policy Institute of California this month published a comprehensive report on the state’s public higher education system.