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Top 25 Religious universities worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,240 religious universities worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 167,166 professional contacts across them, including 51,291 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Chicago the largest hub.
This list covers religious 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 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 universities worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 8,731 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Attracting top students from across the nation and more than 100 countries around the world, OU provides a major university experience in a private college atmosphere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 7,676 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The BYU-Idaho Story begins on a cold November day in when Latter-day Saint pioneers in the newly settled town of Rexburg gathered for the opening of a new academy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 5,152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1613, the National University of Cordoba is the oldest university in Argentina and one of the first in the Americas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 4,232 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Educate the human being, created in the image of God, for the full exercise of citizenship, contribute to the development of self and society through teaching, research and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,848 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Tehran, Iran, the Islamic Azad University was founded in 1982 and established by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, currently has an enrollment of 1.5 million students…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Located in the Twin Cities of Minnesota (USA), the University of St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,863 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Sistema Universitario UNIMINUTO inspirado en el Evangelio, la espiritualidad Eudista y la Obra Minuto de Dios; agrupa Instituciones que comparten un modelo universitario…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,790 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a university of Catholic inspiration open to students and faculty of all creeds and backgrounds, which is known for offering Personal Formation Plan to each student, in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2,750 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador es la más antigua de las universidades privadas del Ecuador: comenzó su singladura el 4 de noviembre de 1946.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2,686 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad del Salvador (USAL) fue creada el 02 de Mayo de 1956 por la Compañía de Jesús, fundadora de la primera Universidad argentina, en 1622.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,617 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Breve Reseña Histórica La hoy denominada Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) tuvo sus orígenes en el año 1785, en fecha 29 de marzo, cuando el Obispo de Mérida Fray Juan Ramos de Lora…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 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. | |||||
| 17 | 1,827 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,708 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Saint Leo University is one of the largest Catholic universities in the nation, offering 57 undergraduate and graduate-level degree programs to more than 18,200 students each year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,644 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 20 | 1,611 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Catholic University of Salta Argentina is defined as a higher education college, a private, Catholic confessional regime nonprofit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,609 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UCAM Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia is a private university founded in 1996 with a clear mission: to train students with the knowledge and skills to serve society, to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,578 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) es una institución católica, no estatal, de servicio a la comunidad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,526 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Cal Lutheran, our dedicated and accomplished faculty works with small classes of undergraduate and graduate students who are open-minded and seeking to grow as individuals…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,524 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Portland was founded in September 1901 by Portland Archbishop Alexander Christie, who had purchased property atop Waud’s Bluff with financial assistance from the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,518 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Located in Greenville, S.C, Bob Jones University is a biblically faithful, liberal arts university focused on educating the whole person to reflect and serve Christ.” 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 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 universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of religious universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name religious 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 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 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 universities are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “religious 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 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 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, 51,291 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 universities by location
7 lists · largest firstEvery Religious universities list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Religious universities based in the United States472
- Religious universities based in Brazil66
- Religious universities based in Indonesia57
- Religious universities based in Canada46
- Religious universities based in the Philippines30
- Religious universities based in Germany25
- Religious universities based in Nigeria25
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 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 universities are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,240 religious 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 universities?
The United States leads with 472 companies, followed by Brazil (66) and Indonesia (57). Every religious universities list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most religious universities?
Chicago leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by Madrid (9) and New York (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 51,291 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,240 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.