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Top 25 College recruiting platforms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 558 college recruiting platforms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 11,400 professional contacts across them, including 5,961 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.
This list covers college recruiting platforms headquartered in the United States, 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 27, 2026.
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The 25 largest college recruiting platforms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,246 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,206 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At NCSA College Recruiting, we believe in the transformative power of sports.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 440 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Niche is modernizing the way students and families choose their best-fit schools and colleges, and how institutions build their future classes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 408 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Liaison helps higher education institutions identify, recruit, and enroll best-fit students with improved outreach, application, and enrollment processes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission at Encoura® is to empower students and institutions to create meaningful connections so everyone can make the most informed decisions to achieve their goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SchoolMint was founded on a simple belief: the enrollment journey should be easier for schools, families, and every student seeking their best-fit school where they can thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 183 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Empowering your future, to college and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At National Scouting Report (NSR) we work to create opportunities for athletes to get an education and play the sport they love.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2006, Archer Education, a growth enablement partner, has helped bridge more than 9 million students to higher learning and a better future through education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PeopleGrove creates transformational change at institutions large and small.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CollegeAdvisor.com connects high school students/families with effective college counseling and personalized technology to guide them through the US college application process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ready Education provides a total student experience platform that attracts and retains students providing experiences that engage and lead to successful outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Capture Higher Ed is an AI-powered enrollment marketing platform that gives colleges and universities unrivaled visibility into their enrollment funnel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Factory Athletics works with youth and high school players nationwide to provide high-level instruction, skill development and guidance through the college recruiting process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thesis is a dedicated higher education student information system provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spark451, a Jenzabar company, is a higher education enrollment strategy, marketing and technology firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Higher ed is being asked to do more with less.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Slate by Technolutions supports the enrollment, student success, alumni, and advancement operations at colleges and universities worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “About SportsRecruits: SportsRecruits is the leading sports recruiting network, connecting athletes, clubs, events, and college coaches in the recruiting process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ZeeMee is a Top 10 social networking app where millions of high school students discover and connect with colleges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Helix Education provides colleges and universities a comprehensive suite of technology and services to power data-driven enrollment growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SportsForce is a Next-Generation College Athletic Recruiting SAAS platform that empowers high school student-athletes, club and high school teams, and college coaches to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recruitment is decentralized, particularly within finance and consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “College Coaches: ACCESS OUR DATABASE OF PROSPECTS IN YOUR SPORT AT: At CPOA, we’re passionate about helping student-athletes achieve their goals!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Scorability is college sports recruiting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 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: college recruiting platforms. 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 college recruiting platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of college recruiting platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name college recruiting platforms. 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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College recruiting platforms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 558 companies.
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 college recruiting platforms, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “college recruiting platforms”. 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 college recruiting platforms), 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 college recruiting platforms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 5,961 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 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 college recruiting platforms, 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 college recruiting platforms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 558 college recruiting platforms headquartered in the United States 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?
Ellucian, headquartered in Reston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most college recruiting platforms?
San Francisco leads with 30 headquartered companies, followed by New York (28) and Chicago (19).
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 5,961 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 558 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 27, 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.
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