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Top 25 Education financing companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 128 education financing companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,267 professional contacts across them, including 1,899 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers education financing companies 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 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 financing companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sallie Mae’s mission is to power confidence as students begin their unique journey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 936 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At PHEAA, we are passionate about our mission of creating affordable access to higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 623 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC) is a nonprofit corporation with a mission to help students succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edfinancial Services provides exceptional customer-driven student loan servicing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A leading provider of school loan finance solutions for students and their families.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ascent is a mission-driven, institutional funded fintech company based in San Diego, CA committed to evolving the education finance industry by providing more than just student…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Student Assistance Foundation (SAF), our mission is to provide students with the knowledge and tools to pursue and fund their postsecondary education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Brazos Higher Education, we’re more than just a student loan company, we’re a team dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “College Loan Corporation (CLC), headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada is a top 10 student loan provider, managing more than $10 billion in student loan assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The finances of higher education today are as complicated as they are expensive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Granite Edvance is a New Hampshire nonprofit that supports students and their families with free career and higher-education counseling and resources, as well as funding…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Climb Credit (NMLS# 1240013) is an innovative student payment platform that makes career-focused education more accessible and affordable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 2008, Moneythink has worked towards student-focused financial wellness and equity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Higher Education Servicing Corporation (HESC) was established in 1978 as a private, non-profit organization developed to provide life-of-loan servicing for student loan programs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Meritize, located here in Frisco, TX, is providing awareness, access, and advancement in the skills-based space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “College Funding and Repayment Made Simple Looking for money for College or Need to Refinance your Student Loans?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Scholarship Foundation of St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Behind the name is a group of innovative industry experts who specialize in working with students, parents, and professionals just like you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1981, the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority (RISLA) has been providing student and families a system of financial aid and counseling to help make post-secondary education…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 40 years, the goal of INvestEd has been to provide students with solutions to put education beyond high school within reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We strive to provide the best possible educational experience for each and every one of our students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Funding U, our core focus is expanding equity in education by making affordable student loans to high-achieving students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TEQlease Capital provides equipment lease financing solutions for businesses and educational institutions in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Central Scholarship is devoted to helping individuals achieve a better life through higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Scholarships360 is a platform connecting students to scholarships, financial aid resources, and education pathways.” 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 financing companies. 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 financing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of education financing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name education financing companies. 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 financing companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 128 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 financing companies, 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 “education financing companies”. 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 financing companies), 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 financing companies, 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, 1,899 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.
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 financing companies, 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 financing companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 128 education financing companies 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?
Sallie MAE, headquartered in Newark, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most education financing companies?
New York leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Knoxville (4) and San Diego (4).
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 1,899 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 128 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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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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