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Top 25 Religious colleges and universities worldwide
RevenueBase identified 954 religious colleges and universities worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 82,604 professional contacts across them, including 24,069 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Atlanta the largest hub.
This list covers religious colleges and 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 21, 2026. Country and city lists for religious colleges and 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 religious colleges and universities worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 14,404 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe a world yearning for hope and joy needs the graduates of Brigham Young University-disciples of Jesus Christ who are driven by love for God and His children and who are…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,624 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Villanova University was founded in 1842 by the Order of St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,677 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “University Highlights- Founded in 1950 by the California Southern Baptist Convention - Fall 2019 enrollment of 11,045 students - CBU offers degrees at the associate, bachelor's…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mercer University is one of America’s oldest and most distinctive institutions of higher learning, offering rigorous programs that span the undergraduate liberal arts to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,083 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over 135 years of tradition, the University of the Incarnate Word is committed to educational excellence in a context of faith in Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word of God.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,955 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1996, Misr University for Science and Technology " MUST" is one of Egypt’s pioneering private universities, offering accredited programs across multiple disciplines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,644 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1885, we at Springfield College have had a singular focus on educating students-in spirit, mind, and body-for leadership in service to others.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,512 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Regent University is the nation's academic center for Christian thought and action, with a multitude of on-campus and online programs available worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,408 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to RiverHawk country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,344 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1916, St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,313 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Messiah University is a private, nationally ranked university of the liberal and applied arts and sciences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,300 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,288 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Loyola thrives in one of the world's most colorful and beloved cities: New Orleans, Louisiana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,232 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Southeastern University is a Christ-centered institution of higher learning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SUNY Plattsburgh was founded in 1889 as an institution of higher education with the sole mission of training teachers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 943 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Southern is a distinctly spiritual academic campus dedicated to nurturing Christ's likeness in our students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 914 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Drew University, a Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts university, includes the College of Liberal Arts, the Drew Theological School and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 913 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A private, Catholic college in Northeast Pennsylvania that offers 100 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 791 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The mission of Anderson University, located in Anderson, Ind, is to educate for a life of faith and service in the church and society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 760 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Catholic Education Western Australia provides quality, faith-based learning and teaching, with more than students at 162 schools and colleges across the state.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 694 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Union University is an academic community, affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention, equipping persons to think Christianly and serve faithfully in ways consistent with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 693 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Walla Walla University is founded on Christian teachings and values as understood and appreciated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 593 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “is a company based out of gyeonggi-do, South Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 570 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Methodist University is an independent four-year institution of higher education with more than 2,400 students from 41 states and 69 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 563 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1867 by the Newark Conference of the United Methodist Church, Centenary University has evolved from a coeducational preparatory school into a modern, independent…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: religious colleges and 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 religious colleges and universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of religious colleges and universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name religious colleges and 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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Religious colleges and universities worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 religious colleges and 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 religious colleges and universities are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “religious colleges and 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 religious colleges and 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 religious colleges and 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, 24,069 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 21, 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.
Religious colleges and universities by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Religious colleges and universities 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 religious colleges and 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 religious colleges and universities are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 954 religious colleges and 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?
Brigham Young University, headquartered in Provo, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most religious colleges and universities?
The United States leads with 382 companies, followed by India (122) and Brazil (33). Every religious colleges and universities list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most religious colleges and universities?
Atlanta leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (6) and Los Angeles (6).
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 24,069 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 954 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 21, 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.