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Top 25 Education and training providers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,619 education and training providers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 71,477 professional contacts across them, including 23,190 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers education and training providers headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 19, 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 education and training providers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,707 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of Bedfordshire is the largest higher education institution in the county, providing excellent opportunities for more people to access top quality higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,696 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Knowledge Academy is a global leader in providing high-quality training and certification courses across various domains.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,648 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BPP is a leading global education business designed to optimise performance at every stage of learning – empowering people and businesses to progress and perform at their very…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,474 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Manchester College has a long-established track record of delivering exceptional vocational and technical training that helps people across Greater Manchester develop the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,035 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Activate Learning is a pioneering education group which combines secondary, further and higher education, with apprenticeship and workforce training, consultancy, commercial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 984 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Lifetime, we deliver skills and training solutions that unlock bright futures for people and businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 927 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Follow City of Glasgow College to find out more about what's happening in the college and across its community, be the first to find out about employment opportunities at the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 881 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Milton Keynes College Group, we’re proud to welcome learners of all levels – delivering exceptional education in all of our sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 844 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Sheffield College is a general Further Education College in the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, providing high quality academic, technical and vocational training…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 800 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “One of the top-performing colleges in the country, Weston College is the only general further and higher education College in the South West to be given Ofsted's top rating…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 757 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Middlesbrough College is the largest FE provider in the Tees Valley, earning ‘Strong’ for skills and ‘Outstanding’ for apprenticeships by Ofsted.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 755 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Leicester College is one of the leading Further Education Colleges within the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 752 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exeter College is an award winning, world-class place to learn and work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 716 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Bedford College Group is a growing and highly successful provider of further, adult and higher education, welcoming over students through its doors and in businesses across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 647 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Learning Curve Group is a national training and education specialist.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 643 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “City College Norwich was first established as a technical school in 1891.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 623 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oaklands offers a wide range of services tailored to meet the needs of both businesses and individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 621 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bridgwater & Taunton College is now defunct after an exciting merger with Strode College.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 593 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cambridge Regional College is one of the largest providers of vocational training and apprenticeships in the region, providing full-time, part-time and work-based training to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 582 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Burnley College, we place the learner at the very heart of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 581 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “West Notts College offers education and training to over students every year providing a huge range of courses to suit everyone – A Levels, T Levels, vocational, apprenticeships…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 573 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “learndirect is the UK’s leading online learning provider following its inception in Born out of the government-created University for Industry (UfI), learndirect has been offering…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 563 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “North West Regional College (NWRC) is a leading provider of Further and Higher Education and skills training in Northern Ireland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 557 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to South Devon College.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 556 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MidKent College is one of the largest providers of further and higher education in the southeast, offering an extensive range of study programmes, professional qualifications and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: education and training providers. 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 education and training providers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of education and training providers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name education and training providers. 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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Education and training providers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,619 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 education and training providers, 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 Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “education and training providers”. 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 education and training providers), 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 education and training providers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 23,190 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 19, 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.
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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 education and training providers, 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 education and training providers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,619 education and training providers headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
University Of Bedfordshire, headquartered in Luton And Bedford, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most education and training providers?
London leads with 349 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (49) and Manchester (38).
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 23,190 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,619 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 19, 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.
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