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Top 25 For-profit universities worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,874 for-profit universities worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 540,165 professional contacts across them, including 144,691 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers for-profit universities worldwide, 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for for-profit universities follow the table.
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.
The 25 largest for-profit universities worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14,568 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “University of Phoenix has helped pioneer online education since launching online courses in 1989.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 10,664 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1927, the University of Houston is the leading public research university in the vibrant international city of Houston.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 9,876 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A comprehensive institution of higher learning located in Giza, Egypt, is committed to preparing students for the challenges of a rapidly changing workplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 9,719 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1932, Southern New Hampshire University has grown from a small school of accounting and secretarial science into one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, accredited…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 9,254 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WGU, is an online university for the 21st century.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 7,270 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos una institución educativa con un modelo único en el mundo por la flexibilidad y empoderamiento que le brinda al estudiante, ya que éste puede elegir su propio programa…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 6,993 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Open University is an expert in flexible higher education that fits around your working life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 6,235 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade Positivo é a Instituição de Educação Superior fruto da experiência de três décadas do Grupo Positivo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 5,869 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UNIR, the International University of La Rioja, delivers high-quality higher education through the most innovative technologies, always placing the student at the core of its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 5,762 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At National University, we believe it’s not just about the degrees our students earn, but the degree to which they use them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 5,458 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The UOC is an internationally recognised online university with a community of over students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 5,303 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is your success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 5,132 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is the largest public university in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4,893 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Universidade Norte do Paraná.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4,577 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “upGrad - started in 2015, is a pioneer in the online education revolution, focused on powering career success for a global workforce of over 1.3 billion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 4,465 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Named for Sam Houston, Texas’ greatest hero, SHSU continually strives to honor its historical roots through academic excellence that includes exceptional teaching from faculty…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4,459 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kaplan is a global educational services company that provides individuals, universities, and businesses with a diverse array of services, including higher and professional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4,143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1967, Humber is one of Canada’s leading postsecondary institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3,990 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of North Dakota is the state's flagship institution, with more than students and 225+ online and on campus fields of study.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3,940 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Algonquin’s success in numbers- 90% of graduates have jobs within six months of graduation - 96% of graduates would recommend Algonquin to others - 92% of employers are happy with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3,690 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Universidad de Las Américas, acreditada por 5 años en nivel avanzado, es una corporación privada, sin fines de lucro, fundada en 1988 y que obtuvo su autonomía en 1997.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3,679 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of North Florida is a nationally and internationally recognized public university preparing students for meaningful careers through personalized learning, hands-on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3,497 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 50 years Walden University has provided working professionals with access to higher education to achieve professional and community service goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3,473 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Charles Sturt University is Australia’s largest regional university, with six main campuses in NSW – Bathurst, Wagga Wagga, Orange, Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, and Port Macquarie – and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3,401 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seton Hall University, only 14 miles from Manhattan, educates servant leaders for today's global society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
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: for-profit 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 for-profit universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of for-profit universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name for-profit 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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For-profit universities worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 for-profit 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for for-profit universities are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “for-profit 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 for-profit 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 for-profit universities, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 144,691 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 20, 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.
For-profit universities by location
17 lists · largest firstEvery For-profit universities list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- For-profit universities based in the United States1,031
- For-profit universities based in Brazil388
- For-profit universities based in India342
- For-profit universities based in Mexico168
- For-profit universities based in the United Kingdom134
- For-profit universities based in Canada95
- For-profit universities based in Spain93
- For-profit universities based in France79
- For-profit universities based in Australia60
- For-profit universities based in Germany39
- For-profit universities based in Italy35
- For-profit universities based in Sri Lanka33
- For-profit universities based in Switzerland33
- For-profit universities based in the Philippines32
- For-profit universities based in Indonesia29
- For-profit universities based in Malaysia27
- For-profit universities based in South Korea25
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 for-profit 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 for-profit universities are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,874 for-profit universities worldwide 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?
University Of Phoenix, headquartered in Phoenix, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most for-profit universities?
The United States leads with 1,031 companies, followed by Brazil (388) and India (342). Every for-profit universities list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most for-profit universities?
London leads with 57 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (41) and Miami (24).
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 144,691 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,874 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 20, 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.