CUNY is the third-largest university system in the United States, in terms of enrollment, behind the State University of New York ( SUNY ), and the California State University system.

Its world renowned university is one of the oldest in Europe ( founded in 1229 ) and, with more than 97, 000 students, is the third-largest university campus of France after Paris and Lyon.

Named East Carolina University by statute and commonly known as ECU or East Carolina, the university is the largest institution of higher learning in eastern North Carolina and the third-largest university in North Carolina.

From the 1930s to the 1960s the Women's College was the third-largest women's university in the world.

The largest is Wichita State University ( WSU ), a four-year public university which has more than 14, 000 students and is the third-largest university in Kansas.

With more than 1100 faculty members and more than 16, 000 students, it is the largest university in the Merrimack Valley, the third-largest state institution behind UMass Amherst and UMass Boston.

Purchased from the Aberdeen College of Education in 1968, the university claims that the St. Andrew Street building is the third-largest granite building in Europe ( the second-largest is Marischal College, also in Aberdeen, and the largest is the Escorial palace in Spain ).

Founded in 1913 as a normal school, Minot State University is the third-largest university in North Dakota, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is the third-largest university in Wisconsin.

It is the largest university in San Antonio, the third-largest of the nine academic institutions in the University of Texas System and the eighth-largest in the state of Texas.

) Current enrollment makes the school the third-largest private university in the state of Maryland.

In 2006, Seminole State partnered with the University of Central Florida, the third-largest university in the nation, to launch DirectConnect to UCF, which guarantees Seminole State graduates hassle-free admission to the university and academic advising by university counselors.

Hosting over 75, 000 students, its student body is comparable to Argentina's third-largest university ( the National University of La Plata ) and exceeded significantly only by the University of Buenos Aires ( UBA ) ( over 300, 000 students ).

The state Legislature created the Alameda and Contra Costa Transit District in 1955, which still exists today as AC Transit, the third-largest bus-only transit system in the nation.

Linz (; ) is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria ().

The county seat and largest city is Provo, which is the third-largest city in the state.

By 1970 Hopkins County was the second largest producer of coal in the Western Coal Field, after Muhlenberg County, and the third-largest coal producer in the entire state after Muhlenberg and Pike County.

Evansville is the third-largest city in the U. S. state of Indiana and the largest city in Southern Indiana.

Kansas City, Kansas is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas, the county seat of Wyandotte County, and the third-largest city of the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area.

The park is the largest in the state of Kentucky, and the 38, 000 employees make the park and Jeffersontown the third-largest city of employment in the state.

As of 2005, Mequon was the third-largest city in terms of land area in the state of Wisconsin.

At the 2005 census it had a population of 27, 235, the third-largest community in the state ( behind Campeche and Ciudad del Carmen, and just barely ahead of Escárcega ).

It is the third-largest city in the state of Wisconsin, after Milwaukee and Madison.

It is the third-largest community in the state of Colima.

Gera, the third-largest city in the German state of Thuringia ( after Erfurt, the Thuringian capital, and Jena ), lies in east Thuringia on the river Weiße Elster, approximately 60 kilometres to the south of the city of Leipzig and 80 kilometres to the east of Erfurt.

By population, Bennington is the largest town in southern Vermont, the third-largest town in Vermont ( after Essex and Colchester ), and the sixth-largest municipality in the state ( after Burlington, Essex, Rutland, Colchester, and South Burlington ).

At the census of 2010 the population of the city was 45, 868 inhabitants ( the third-largest community in the state ), and that of the municipality was 74, 217.

It is the third-largest city in Rondônia state.

Beginning with the dedication of the Raynal Bolling Memorial Grove, it has grown to become the third-largest park in the California State Park system, now containing through acquisitions and gifts to the state.

The city had a 2005 census population of 234, 174, making it the third-largest city in the state after Veracruz and Xalapa, but first in metropolitan population.

In this decade Hill AFB is still the sixth-largest employer in the state of Utah, and the third-largest one excluding the State Government and Higher Education employers.

As of Fall 2011, the student body is the third-largest in the state of Minnesota with over 15, 000 students.

At the census of 2005, it reported a population of 26, 797 inhabitants, the third-largest community in the state behind Aguascalientes and Jesús María.

The largest facility is the McMaster University Medical Centre, a multi-use research hospital that is home to the second-largest neonatal intensive care unit and the third-largest child and youth mental health unit in the country.

Using glass blanks made by Chance Brothers of Birmingham and Feil-Mantois of Paris, his firm Alvan Clark & Sons ground lenses for refracting telescopes, including the largest in the world at the time: the at Dearborn Observatory at the Old University of Chicago ( the lens was originally intended for Ole Miss ), the two telescopes at the United States Naval Observatory and McCormick Observatory, the at Pulkovo Observatory ( destroyed in the Siege of Leningrad ; only the lens survives ), the telescope at Lick Observatory ( still third-largest ) and later the at Yerkes Observatory, which remains the largest successful refracting telescope in the world.

It is currently the third-largest stadium by capacity in the second tier of college football, NCAA Division I FCS, and the largest actually owned by the school itself ( Georgia State University, which uses the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, and Tennessee State University, who plays at LP Field in Nashville, rent larger stadiums used by NFL teams in their home cities ).

* Georgia Perimeter College is the largest two-year college and the third-largest institution in the University System of Georgia, with about 26, 996 students enrolled, as of Fall 2011.

The same can be said for the University of Arizona, draws the third-largest fan base behind football and basketball.

The Magnes is the third-largest Jewish museum in the United States and became affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley in late 2009.

The city is located on the eastern shores of Lake Constance, the third-largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, between Switzerland in the west and Germany in the northwest.

The municipal center is the town of Harstad, the most populous town in Central Hålogaland and the third-largest in all of Northern Norway.

Berbérati is the third-largest city in the Central African Republic with a population of 76, 918 ( 2003 census ).