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Top 25 Financial aid advising companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 320 financial aid advising companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,931 professional contacts across them, including 674 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers financial aid advising 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.
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The 25 largest financial aid advising companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “College Now (formerly Cleveland Scholarship Programs) paves the way for middle and high school students and adult learners to prepare for, finance, and graduate from postsecondary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “More than a scholarship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bright Horizons College Coach is the nation’s leading provider of education advising, offering expert guidance on the college admissions and finance processes to families of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 5 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1996, clients have sought out Global Financial Aid Services to improve process efficiency, enhance their technology and advance student service in their financial aid…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Blue Icon Advisors is the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators'(NASFAA) financial aid consulting service for colleges, universities, and career schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2001, ProEd is a full-service financial aid outsourcing, auditing, and consulting company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Higher Education Assistance Group (HEAG) offers the largest team of Financial Aid and Student Accounts consultants in the industry, backed by a deep bench of compliance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LogicPrep is a premier college advisory and test prep firm that has helped thousands of students around the world maximize their potential, tell their stories, and identify their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Scholarship Foundation of St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Assists students and their families throughout the college application process -Works one-on-one with students/families on developing a list of colleges to visit, mock interview…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “College Solutions help students find their perfect college fit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Rochester is a non-profit community service agency dedicated to educating and empowering individuals and families to take control of their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Scholarship Academy students learn how to negotiate their financial aid packages, manage their financial awards (in preparation for tuition increases), create scholarship brag…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 18 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “College Inside Track helps families navigate the complicated college process, find the right fit and save lots of money” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2004, over families have used College Assistance Plus to save money on college.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Access College America (or ACA) was founded in response to the high demand for exclusive guidance with college planning at affordable pricing with accessibility in mind.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 22 | 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. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Fair Opportunity Project provides free college and career mentoring, financial aid coaching and essay review services to high school students nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DJA Financial Aid Services, Inc.(DJA) offers comprehensive financial aid servicing and consulting to Title IV institutions nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At College Inroads, we help the parents of high school students with the entire college planning process, including- Career Search - Extensive College Seach - Online SAT or ACT…” 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: financial aid advising 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 financial aid advising companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of financial aid advising companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name financial aid advising 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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Financial aid advising 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 320 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 financial aid advising 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 “financial aid advising 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 financial aid advising 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 financial aid advising 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, 674 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 financial aid advising 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 financial aid advising companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 320 financial aid advising 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?
College NOW, headquartered in Cleveland, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most financial aid advising companies?
New York leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Austin (7) and Houston (7).
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 674 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 320 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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