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Top 25 Colonial universities based in Brazil
RevenueBase identified 419 colonial universities headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026 and tracks 106,687 professional contacts across them, including 21,083 with verified work emails. Sao Paulo is the largest hub.
This list covers colonial universities headquartered in Brazil, 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 15, 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.
The 25 largest colonial universities based in Brazil
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,960 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A UNIP promove, em todas as áreas da educação, a formação atualizada dos alunos e sua capacitação para uma sociedade em constante mudança, por meio de um ensino de qualidade…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 10,179 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Universidade Estadual de Campinas (University of Campinas), short Unicamp, is one of the public universities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 7,606 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade de Brasília foi inaugurada em 21 de abril de 1962.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 4,443 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Federal University of Santa Maria is among the best higher education institutions in Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,694 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) is a public university based in Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais state, Brazil), with an advanced campus in Governador Valadares (in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,053 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Criada em 1970, a Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) é, atualmente, uma das mais importantes universidades públicas da Região Sul do Brasil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Há 36 anos atuando no ensino superior, a Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul conta com 26 mil alunos, 400 funcionários e 502 professores distribuídos pelos campi Anália Franco…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,183 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “São 56 anos oferecendo uma sólida formação profissional e um processo de aprendizagem diferenciado para seus alunos, com diversos cursos ranqueados no Guia do Estudante da Editora…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,095 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade Federal de Sergipe é uma instituição federal e a única universidade pública do estado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,846 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Em 1994, após reconhecimento pelo Ministério da Educação e Desporto do Brasil, surge a primeira e única universidade particular até então do Estado de Sergipe: a Universidade…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,703 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 1961, a Universidade Federal de Alagoas (Ufal), instituição federal de ensino superior, instalada no Campus A.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,546 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The university of the Oeste Paulista is in the top 3 best private universities in the Sao Paulo state.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,458 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade São Judas hoje tem quase 50 anos de história e é reconhecida como uma das três melhores universidades privada do estado de São Paulo, segundo o MEC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,360 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Página oficial da Universidade Federal do Maranhão.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,350 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Midwest State University - UNICENTRO, located in the state of Paraná, with campuses in the city of Guarapuava and Irati.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,083 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Unesc (Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense) é uma Universidade de caráter comunitário com 47 anos de vida, que desenvolve atividades nas áreas de ensino, pesquisa e extensão.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,067 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “No dia 29 de julho de 1994, foi fundado o Centro de Educação Superior de Brasília – CESB - com a finalidade de ser o mantenedor de uma instituição que desenvolvesse atividades de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 989 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade La Salle conta com 30 cursos de graduação, situado em uma das regiões mais prósperas e produtivas do Brasil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 970 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade FUMEC é uma instituição de ensino superior, com mais de 60 anos de tradição, localizada em Belo Horizonte/MG.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 925 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ao todo, são mais de 60 anos como Instituição de Ensino e 45 anos como Universidade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 892 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O UNASP é uma instituição que cresce em estrutura e padrão de educação, atingindo o seu principal objetivo: formar cidadãos de caráter que façam diferença no mundo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 820 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Centro Universitário INTA (UNINTA) é o maior Centro Universitário cearense fora da capital do estado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 794 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Criado em 1967, o Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal (UDF) é a primeira instituição particular de ensino superior da capital do Brasil e reconhecida por sua tradição no…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 788 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De um pequeno curso preparatório para exames de admissão ao antigo ginásio à consolidação como uma das maiores instituições de Ensino Superior do Sul do Brasil: essa é a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 752 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade Santa Cecília é referência na Baixada Santista e no país com sua qualidade de ensino; infraestrutura completa, contando com salas e laboratórios modernos…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 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: colonial 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 colonial universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of colonial universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name colonial 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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Colonial universities based in Brazil at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Brazil, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Brazil, over 419 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 colonial 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 Brazil whose own description of what they do matches “colonial 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 colonial 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 colonial universities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Brazil 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, 21,083 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 15, 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 colonial 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 colonial universities are there based in Brazil?
RevenueBase identified 419 colonial universities headquartered in Brazil 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?
Universidade Paulista, headquartered in Sao Paulo, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most colonial universities?
Sao Paulo leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Rio De Janeiro (15) and Belo Horizonte (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 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.