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Top 25 Autonomous universities based in Brazil

Name: Autonomous universities based in Brazil
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026 283 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 283 autonomous universities headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026 and tracks 84,270 professional contacts across them, including 16,042 with verified work emails. Sao Paulo is the largest hub.

This list covers autonomous universities headquartered in Brazil, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

283Companies

84,270Contacts tracked

16,042Verified emails

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The 25 largest autonomous universities based in Brazil

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 283 autonomous universities based in Brazil, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to autonomous universities: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Universidade Paulista	Indirect evidence	Sao Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	10001+	11,960 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A UNIP promove, em todas as áreas da educação, a formação atualizada dos alunos e sua capacitação para uma sociedade em constante mudança, por meio de um ensino de qualidade…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2	Universidade DE Brasília	Indirect evidence	Brasilia, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	7,606 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade de Brasília foi inaugurada em 21 de abril de 1962.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3	Pontifícia Universidade Católica DO Paraná	Indirect evidence	Curitiba, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	5,001-10,000	4,490 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Educational excellence, innovation-driven entrepreneurship, and multi and intercultural learning form PUCPR’s primary purposes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4	UEL	Indirect evidence	Londrina, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	5,001-10,000	3,053 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Criada em 1970, a Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) é, atualmente, uma das mais importantes universidades públicas da Região Sul do Brasil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5	Universidade Cruzeiro DO SUL	Indirect evidence	Sao Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	2,273 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Há 36 anos atuando no ensino superior, a Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul conta com 26 mil alunos, 400 funcionários e 502 professores distribuídos pelos campi Anália Franco…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6	UCS	Indirect evidence	Caxias Do Sul, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,241 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS), mantida pela Fundação Universidade de Caxias do Sul, é uma referência em educação superior com 57 anos de tradição.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7	Centro Universitário UNA	Indirect evidence	Belo Horizonte, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,183 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “São 56 anos oferecendo uma sólida formação profissional e um processo de aprendizagem diferenciado para seus alunos, com diversos cursos ranqueados no Guia do Estudante da Editora…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8	Universidade Federal DE Sergipe	Indirect evidence	São Cristóvão, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,095 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade Federal de Sergipe é uma instituição federal e a única universidade pública do estado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9	Universidade Tiradentes-Unit	Indirect evidence	Aracaju, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,846 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Em 1994, após reconhecimento pelo Ministério da Educação e Desporto do Brasil, surge a primeira e única universidade particular até então do Estado de Sergipe: a Universidade…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10	Universidade Federal DE Alagoas	Indirect evidence	Maceió, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,703 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fundada em 1961, a Universidade Federal de Alagoas (Ufal), instituição federal de ensino superior, instalada no Campus A.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11	Universidade DO Oeste Paulista	Partial evidence	Presidente Prudente, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,546 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The university of the Oeste Paulista is in the top 3 best private universities in the Sao Paulo state.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12	Universidade SÃO Judas Tadeu	Indirect evidence	Sao Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	5,001-10,000	1,458 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade São Judas hoje tem quase 50 anos de história e é reconhecida como uma das três melhores universidades privada do estado de São Paulo, segundo o MEC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13	UFMA	Indirect evidence	São Luís, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,360 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Página oficial da Universidade Federal do Maranhão.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14	USCS	Indirect evidence	São Caetano Do Sul, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	1,086 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul (USCS) é uma instituição de ensino superior municipal pluricurricular, com autonomia didático-científica, administrativa, de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15	UNESC	Indirect evidence	Criciúma, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,083 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Unesc (Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense) é uma Universidade de caráter comunitário com 47 anos de vida, que desenvolve atividades nas áreas de ensino, pesquisa e extensão.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16	Universidade LA Salle	Indirect evidence	Canoas, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	5,001-10,000	989 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade La Salle conta com 30 cursos de graduação, situado em uma das regiões mais prósperas e produtivas do Brasil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17	Universidade DE Taubaté	Indirect evidence	Taubaté, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	925 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Ao todo, são mais de 60 anos como Instituição de Ensino e 45 anos como Universidade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18	Centro Universitário Adventista DE SÃO Paulo	Indirect evidence	São Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	892 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “O UNASP é uma instituição que cresce em estrutura e padrão de educação, atingindo o seu principal objetivo: formar cidadãos de caráter que façam diferença no mundo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19	Universidade DE Franca Unifran	Indirect evidence	Franca, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	823 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Unifran está entre as 10 melhores Universidades particulares do país, porque quem investe em qualidade de ensino, pesquisa e inovação tem sempre as melhores colocações.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20	Uninta	Indirect evidence	Sobral, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	820 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “O Centro Universitário INTA (UNINTA) é o maior Centro Universitário cearense fora da capital do estado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21	UDF Centro Universitário	Indirect evidence	Brasília/df, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	794 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Criado em 1967, o Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal (UDF) é a primeira instituição particular de ensino superior da capital do Brasil e reconhecida por sua tradição no…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22	Universidade Tuiuti DO Paraná	Indirect evidence	Curitiba, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	788 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “De um pequeno curso preparatório para exames de admissão ao antigo ginásio à consolidação como uma das maiores instituições de Ensino Superior do Sul do Brasil: essa é a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23	Universidade DO Vale DO Taquari - Univates	Indirect evidence	Lajeado, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	774 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Univates é uma instituição comunitária, sem fins lucrativos e com gestão democrática e participativa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24	Centro Universitário FAM	Indirect evidence	São Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	720 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Acreditamos que por meio de um ensino de excelência somos capazes de liderar mudanças que rompem barreiras, impulsionam sonhos e transformam o mundo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25	Centro Universitário DE João Pessoa Unipê	Indirect evidence	João Pessoa, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	709 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “O maior complexo universitário particular da Paraíba.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: autonomous universities. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names autonomous universities.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of autonomous universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name autonomous universities. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Autonomous universities based in Brazil at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026

19.0%Verified-email coverage

297.8Average contacts per company

201-500Median size (employees)

7.1%Largest-city concentration · Sao Paulo

Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Brazil, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Brazil, over 283 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among autonomous universities, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Brazil whose own description of what they do matches “autonomous universities”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names autonomous universities), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among autonomous universities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Brazil are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 16,042 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names autonomous universities, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many autonomous universities are there based in Brazil?

RevenueBase identified 283 autonomous universities headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Universidade Paulista, headquartered in Sao Paulo, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most autonomous universities?

Sao Paulo leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Curitiba (10) and Belo Horizonte (9).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 16,042 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 283 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.