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Top 25 Colleges and universities based in Pakistan

This directory contains 107 colleges and universities based in Pakistan, with 19,072 contact records and 3,767 email addresses. Updated for November 2026, it identifies Lahore as the single most-represented city among the companies on the list.

Colleges and universities are postsecondary institutions that provide academic programs, instruction, research, and credentials such as degrees or certificates. This list covers colleges and universities that provide postsecondary education through academic, professional, technical, or research programs. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of November 5, 2026.

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.

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19,072Contacts tracked
3,767Verified emails
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The 25 largest colleges and universities based in Pakistan

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 107 colleges and universities based in Pakistan, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Nov 5, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to colleges and universities: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceLahore, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20265,001-10,0003,903 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Established in 1882 at Lahore, the University of the Punjab is the largest and the oldest seat of higher learning in Pakistan.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
2Indirect evidenceLahore, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20261,001-5,0003,082 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“UMT is a premier, research-intensive private university dedicated to academic excellence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
3Partial evidenceFaisalabad, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026501-1,0001,677 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Government College University, Faisalabad has emerged as a leading center of learning and research in a short span of time.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
4Indirect evidenceKarachi., PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20261,001-5,0001,462 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ziauddin University is committed to delivering quality higher education that inspires excellence, innovation, and lifelong learning.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
5Indirect evidenceIslamabd, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20261,001-5,0001,328 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The mission of the National University of Modern Languages is to establish, sustain and enhance itself as a quality-centric higher education institution that provides excellent…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
6Indirect evidenceKarachi, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026201-5001,140 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Leadership.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
7Indirect evidencePeshawar, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20261,001-5,000824 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“University of Peshawar is a future-oriented and unique institution committed to achieving excellence in the undergraduate and graduate education, research and public service.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
8Partial evidenceLahore, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026501-1,000638 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Government College Lahore began its journey on January 1, 1864, with a class consisting of nine students.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
9Indirect evidenceMardan, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20261,001-5,000636 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) is a prominent higher education institution located in Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
10Indirect evidenceLahore, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20265,001-10,000517 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.” Education is the process of instructions…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
11Indirect evidenceKarachi, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026201-500379 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“DHA Suffa University (DSU), established in the year 2012, has systematically taken giant strides to become the institution of choice in Pakistan.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLahore, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 202610001+318 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus was established in January 2002.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
13Indirect evidenceRawalpindi, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026501-1,000292 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi is a renowned academic institution that holds a history of great success, association, and ambitious plans for the future.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
14Indirect evidenceMultan, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20261,001-5,000237 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Multan has always remained a centre of excellence in education.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
15Indirect evidenceGilgit, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026501-1,000182 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Karakorum International University (KIU) Gilgit is a world-renowned educational institution located in Gilgit, Pakistan.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
16Indirect evidenceKarachi, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20261,001-5,000157 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Transforming the Minds & Shaping Leaders for Tomorrow.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
17Indirect evidenceKarachi, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026501-1,000150 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“DIHE is devoted to discovering, disseminating and applying knowledge for the advancement of the Pakistani Society in perspective of global changes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
18Indirect evidenceLahore, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20265,001-10,000111 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“For 25 years, we at Riphah have been defined by our untiring commitment to our students’ academic and personal development.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
19Indirect evidencePeshawar, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20261,001-5,000106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Overview The Institute of Management Sciences, based in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is a young, innovative, and enterprising business school en route to compete with the…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
20Indirect evidenceKarachi, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026501-1,000101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Where your Future Begins”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
21Indirect evidenceMultan, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 202651-20098 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Women University Multan is a company based out of Pakistan.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
22Indirect evidenceLahore, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026n/a90 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“UHS campus was inaugurated by the President of Pakistan - who is also its patron - on October 02, 2002.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
23Indirect evidenceDera Ismail Khan, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 202651-20087 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Gomal University (Urdu: جامعہ گومل), is a public research university located in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
24Partial evidenceLahore, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 2026501-1,00078 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Welcome To ICBS The Imperial College of Business Studies, Lahore (ICBS), was established in 1991 by the Pakistan Benevolence & Social Management Trust.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026
25Indirect evidenceBuner, PakistanHQ checked Nov 5, 20261,001-5,00062 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Nov 5, 2026

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Colleges and universities based in Pakistan at a glance

As of Nov 5, 2026
19.8%Verified-email coverage
178.2Average contacts per company
201-500Median size (employees)
21.5%Largest-city concentration · Lahore
Nov 5, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
1
11-50
25
51-200
24
201-500
14
501-1,000
18
1,001-5,000
14
5,001-10,000
4
10001+
7

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Pakistan, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Pakistan, over 107 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 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.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Pakistan whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 colleges and universities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Pakistan 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, 3,767 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 November 5, 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.

Frequently asked

How many colleges and universities are based in Pakistan?

The directory contains 107 colleges and universities based in Pakistan.

How many contacts are available for colleges and universities?

The list includes 19,072 contacts and 3,767 email addresses for colleges and universities.

Which city has the most colleges and universities?

Lahore is the single most-represented city among the companies on the list.

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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.