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Top 25 Historic universities in america worldwide
RevenueBase identified 280 historic universities in america worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 178,545 professional contacts across them, including 56,021 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers historic universities in america 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 historic universities in america 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 historic universities in america worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26,844 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “There’s a reason Penn State consistently ranks among the top one percent of the world’s universities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 16,037 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Carolina’s vibrant people and programs attest to the University’s long-standing place among leaders in higher education since it was chartered in 1789 and opened its doors for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 14,168 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is currently one of the leading higher education institutions in Latin America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 12,364 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sapienza University of Rome, founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface is one of the oldest universities in the world and a high performer among the largest universities in international…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 7,977 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Two Nobel laureates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 7,232 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “One of Canada's leading universities, Dalhousie University is widely recognized for outstanding academic quality and teaching, and a broad range of educational and research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 6,652 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Located in Canada, in the Province of Quebec, the Université de Sherbrooke is a French-speaking institution that offers you the opportunity to benefit from an academic education…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 6,370 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Tulane University is consistently ranked among the top 50 universities in the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 5,888 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad de Concepción es una institución humanista, laica y pluralista, creada por iniciativa de la comunidad de Concepción y constituida como una Corporación de Derecho…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 5,759 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of Texas at El Paso is America’s leading Hispanic-serving University.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 5,276 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “American University's historic academic strengths are rooted in social responsibility and our dedication to cultural and intellectual diversity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 5,163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Appalachian State University prepares students to lead purposeful lives as engaged global citizens who understand their responsibilities in creating a sustainable future for all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 3,448 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala is a public university.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,897 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1878, Duquesne is consistently ranked among the nation's top Catholic universities for its award-winning faculty and horizon-expanding education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,602 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,227 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Peradeniya is the heir to the oldest university tradition in Sri Lanka as the successor to the University of Ceylon, the first institution of its kind in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2,204 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Educamos para el Desarrollo Desde 1867 La Universidad de Cuenca tiene su sede en la capital de la provincia del Azuay, a su vez cabecera de la región centro-sur del Ecuador.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2,007 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Vigo/Universidade de Vigo is an autonomous public higher education institution, open to the society and with an international vocation, committed to equality and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,959 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad de Cádiz es una institución pública comprometida con la Sociedad, con proyección internacional, cuya misión es la formación integral de personas a través de la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,864 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Please follow for the latest information on Augusta University.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,819 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Por qué estudiar en la UAEH?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,573 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greatness goes beyond expectation at U of T Scarborough.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,430 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recibe mi más cordial bienvenida a la página web de la Universidad de Almería.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,404 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Don't visit Flint.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,353 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over more than 50 years, California State University, Stanislaus, has grown to be a touchstone of higher learning, intellectual pursuit, artistic excellence and cultural…” 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: historic universities in america. 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 historic universities in america.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of historic universities in america, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name historic universities in america. 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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Historic universities in america 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 historic universities in america, 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 historic universities in america are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “historic universities in america”. 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 historic universities in america), 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 historic universities in america, 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, 56,021 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.
Historic universities in america by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Historic universities in america list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 historic universities in america, 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 historic universities in america are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 280 historic universities in america 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?
Penn State University, headquartered in University Park, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most historic universities in america?
The United States leads with 36 companies. Every historic universities in america list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most historic universities in america?
Sao Paulo leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Washington (4) and Cuenca (3).
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 56,021 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 280 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.