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Top 25 For-profit colleges based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 226 for-profit colleges headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 53,292 professional contacts across them, including 21,864 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers for-profit colleges headquartered in Canada, 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 20, 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 for-profit colleges based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 4,276 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1967, Sheridan has grown from a local college of 400 students to one of Ontario’s leading postsecondary institutions, educating approximately full-time and continuing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1967, Humber is one of Canada’s leading postsecondary institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,940 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Algonquin’s success in numbers- 90% of graduates have jobs within six months of graduation - 96% of graduates would recommend Algonquin to others - 92% of employers are happy with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,722 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fanshawe's story began in 1967.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,170 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 60 years, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has been delivering flexible, relevant, and future-proof education that prepares learners to provide applied…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,971 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NAIT’s hands-on, technology-based education and applied research are essential to the productivity and prosperity of Alberta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,530 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With campuses in Oshawa and Whitby, Durham College (DC) offers more than full-time post-secondary and apprenticeship students access to more than 140 full-time and part-time…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,489 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Georgian College offers career-oriented, postsecondary education and training designed to prepare students for the future of work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,548 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bow Valley College, founded in 1965, is the largest college in the Calgary area, with over students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,505 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more than 50 years, CDI College has been one of the leading career training institutions in Canada, thanks to its commitment to quality education and the success of its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,404 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At triOS College Business Technology Healthcare Inc, our mission is to prepare learners for meaningful, in-demand careers while building an environment where students, educators…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,318 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Your journey with Loyalist College will take you through a fully experiential learning environment with community engagement and hands-on opportunities to drive you to your…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,199 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1967, Cambrian College has been providing students of all ages with the education needed to launch successful and rewarding careers around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,191 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1971, Camosun is one of the largest colleges in British Columbia with campuses on the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 968 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “University Canada West (UCW) is an innovative business and technology-oriented institution in downtown Vancouver, Canada, offering online and on-campus undergraduate and graduate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 903 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Red Deer Polytechnic offers apprenticeships, certificates, degrees, micro-credentials & degrees, with expanded connections to industry, applied learning opportunities and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Step into your dream career with NBCC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 718 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “John Abbott College is the only English language CEGEP in the West Island of Montreal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 607 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With six unique campuses nestled in the magnificent northern BC region, the College of New Caledonia has nurtured the educational pathways of thousands of learners for almost 50…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 519 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cégep donnant des formations de DEC et d'AEC (adultes) en Électronique industrielle, travail social, Comptabilité et gestion, Intervention en milieu carcéral, Éducation à…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 500 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 50 years, Holland College has provided hands-on industry-focused training on Prince Edward Island.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 452 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sprott Shaw College has a long-standing reputation of equipping our students with innovative ways of thinking through hands-on training and practical programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LCI Education is a diverse learning community of 12 select higher education institutions with 23 campuses on 5 continents, and colleagues involved in educating over learners…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 435 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Visit our job board: https://careers.nic.bc.ca/ North Island College is where education strengthens life on North Vancouver Island, the Central Coast and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 387 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Anderson College is one of Canada’s oldest colleges, having opened our first location in 1885.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: for-profit colleges. 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 for-profit colleges.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of for-profit colleges, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name for-profit colleges. 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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For-profit colleges based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 226 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 for-profit colleges, 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 Canada whose own description of what they do matches “for-profit colleges”. 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 for-profit colleges), 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 for-profit colleges, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada 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, 21,864 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 20, 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.
For-profit colleges by metro
- For-profit colleges in Toronto41
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 for-profit colleges, 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 for-profit colleges are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 226 for-profit colleges headquartered in Canada 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?
Sheridan College, headquartered in Oakville, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most for-profit colleges?
Toronto leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Calgary (24) and Mississauga (16).
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 21,864 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 226 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 20, 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.