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Top 25 Private student loan lenders worldwide
RevenueBase identified 90 private student loan lenders worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 7,829 professional contacts across them, including 2,026 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Phoenix the largest hub.
This list covers private student loan lenders 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 private student loan lenders 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 private student loan lenders worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,161 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sallie Mae’s mission is to power confidence as students begin their unique journey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 936 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At PHEAA, we are passionate about our mission of creating affordable access to higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MOHELA is dedicated to providing world-class customer service for the students whose loans we manage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A leading provider of school loan finance solutions for students and their families.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ascent is a mission-driven, institutional funded fintech company based in San Diego, CA committed to evolving the education finance industry by providing more than just student…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Yrefy, LLC is a national specialty consumer finance lender, focusing explicitly on distressed private student loans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Brazos Higher Education, we’re more than just a student loan company, we’re a team dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CU Student Choice helps credit unions meet the evolving needs of the next generation of members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “College Loan Corporation (CLC), headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada is a top 10 student loan provider, managing more than $10 billion in student loan assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BaldeCash es un aliado de estudios para estudiantes universitarios.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Higher Education Servicing Corporation (HESC) was established in 1978 as a private, non-profit organization developed to provide life-of-loan servicing for student loan programs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GradFin's mission is to help student loan borrowers manage their debt so they can start saving for the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EduFin’s promoters bring eight-decades of collective experience in banking, finance and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “College Funding and Repayment Made Simple Looking for money for College or Need to Refinance your Student Loans?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Behind the name is a group of innovative industry experts who specialize in working with students, parents, and professionals just like you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1981, the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority (RISLA) has been providing student and families a system of financial aid and counseling to help make post-secondary education…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Manati Alternate Student Funding ("MANATI") is a distinguished student funding organisation dedicated to fostering enhanced access, accomplishment, and affordability in the realm…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Higher Level Processing, we live and breath Federal student loans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With the student loan crisis becoming an out of control epidemic for individuals and families across the United States, Student Advocates seeks to relieve some of the stress and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to HDFC Credila Financial Services, India's first dedicated education loan provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The National Student Loan Program (NSLP) is a private, nonprofit company helping college students and their families achieve the dream of higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Quotanda is a lending as a service (LaaS) platform that enables schools and lenders to set up student financing programs to make education more affordable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We at CredWings introduce ourselves as promising financial specialists, making us the one-stop solution for all your education financing needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PayForED Software & Loan Solutions help you navigate the college planning, funding, and repayment journey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brúa námslán – Þín framtíð Námslán Brúa eru sniðin að þörfum námsmanna sem stefna að framhaldsnámi eða öðru sérfræðinámi.” 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: private student loan lenders. 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 private student loan lenders.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private student loan lenders, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private student loan lenders. 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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Private student loan lenders 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 private student loan lenders, 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 private student loan lenders are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “private student loan lenders”. 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 private student loan lenders), 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 private student loan lenders, 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, 2,026 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.
Private student loan lenders by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Private student loan lenders 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 private student loan lenders, 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 private student loan lenders are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 90 private student loan lenders 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?
Sallie MAE, headquartered in Newark, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most private student loan lenders?
The United States leads with 45 companies. Every private student loan lenders list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most private student loan lenders?
Phoenix leads with 3 headquartered companies, followed by Mumbai (2) and West Des Moines (2).
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 2,026 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 90 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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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.