No one who worked for a company with 2000-3000 employees would think that their work place was claustrophobically small.
Let’s also include in this calculation that any college turns over a quarter of its enrollment every year. It’s not static. So, a student attending a college with 2000 students enrolled has actually spent their college experience with 3500 other students over 4 years. If the enrollment is 3000, then the number of fellow students over 4 years is 5250.