The 25 Largest University In-plants in North America

By Bob Neubauer

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We have finished collecting the data for our annual ranking of the largest in-plants. As we prepare the lists for our December issue, we've decided to reveal some of the data a little early. Here are the 25 largest higher-ed in-plants, ranked by both sales and employees. For the first time, Brigham Young University tops both lists.

Largest by Employees

	In-plant	Employees*
1	Brigham Young University	218
2	University of Washington	63
3	University of Oklahoma	62.5
4	University of Texas - Austin	50
5	University of Tennessee - Knoxville	49
6	Penn State University	47
7	Washington State University	42.5
8	Yale University	40
9	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	39.5
10	Ohio State University	35
11	University of Alabama	34
12	University of Missouri	30
13	New York University	29
14	University of Alabama at Birmingham	28
15	Oregon State University	27
16	University of Virginia	27
17	University of Minnesota	25
18	Iowa State University	24.5
19	University of California, San Francisco	24.5
20	University of Michigan	22.5
21	McMaster University	21
22	University of Houston	21
23	Indiana University	19
24	University of California, Davis	18.5
25	Columbia University	17

* To get these figures, we added half of the number of part-time employees to the full-time number provided.

Largest by Sales

	Name	Budget	Sales
1	Brigham Young University	NA	17,000,000
2	University of Oklahoma	14,500,000	14,750,000
3	University of Texas - Austin	10,700,000	10,700,000
4	Yale University	9,480,206	8,787,350
5	University of Washington	NA	8,096,621
6	University of California, San Francisco	5,865,258	6,506,478
7	University of Missouri	6,465,085	6,465,085
8	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	6,464,688	6,464,688
9	Ohio State University	NA	5,750,000
10	University of Tennessee - Knoxville	5,600,000	5,600,000
11	University of Minnesota	5,261,201	5,591,964
12	University of California, Davis	5,231,959	5,231,959
13	Oregon State University	4,900,000	5,125,000
14	University of Virginia	4,480,000	4,846,000
15	University of Alabama	5,156,000	4,427,164
16	Columbia University	3,926,136	3,926,000
17	University of Oregon	3,680,000	3,904,757
18	University of Alabama at Birmingham	3,500,000	3,500,000
19	Arizona State University	3,200,000	3,200,000
20	Washington State University	3,100,000	3,200,000
21	Iowa State University	2,939,077	2,939,077
22	McMaster University	2,350,000	2,600,000
23	Ohio University	2,500,000	2,600,000
24	University of Delaware	2,200,000	2,300,000
25	Indiana University	NA	2,200,000

The full list of the largest in-plants will be published in our November/December 2023 issue and will also be available online soon.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.