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Top 25 For-profit universities based in France
RevenueBase identified 79 for-profit universities headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 9,142 professional contacts across them, including 590 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers for-profit universities headquartered in France, 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 universities based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,249 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Studi – La grande école 100 % en ligne, 100 % humaine Leader de la formation en ligne en France, nous accompagnons au quotidien plus de 59 apprenants, leur permettant de réussir…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 431 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Higher education (from Licence to Doctorat), diplomas delivered through Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris - Vocational education (hundreds of diplomas and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 399 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tu as le projet, on a la formation!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ENACO est un groupe de trois entreprises : ENACO Ingénierie, ENACO Online Business School, ENACO Excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec plus de 130 apprenants formés à nos côtés, L'École Française est une référence de la formation en ligne.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 80 ans, EFCformation est un acteur pionnier de la formation à distance dédiée aux métiers de la gestion d’entreprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'ISCG Paris est une école de commerce en alternance dont les deux campus parisiens, à Rivoli (Paris 1er) et à Beaubourg (Paris 4ème) sont localisés à quelques pas du quartier des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Préparation aux diplômes d'État : licences, licences professionnelles, masters, doctorats- Diplômes spécifiques UCO : DU - Taux de réussite important aux examens - 90% en moyenne…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Avec INEAD, prenez les rênes de votre apprentissage pour activer le pilotage de votre réussite professionnelle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'IUT de Saint Malo, des formations d'excellence dans un cadre de rêve!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The European International University (EIU – Paris) is incorporated as an international private independent higher education / university education / post-secondary education…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “En 1990, le Centre National d’Enseignement (CNED) et l’université Paris 8 s’associent pour mettre en place les enseignements du DEUG de psychologie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Koréva, créé par des spécialistes de l’enseignement à distance, s’est entouré d’une équipe de professeurs diplômés.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CADIS FORMATIONS is an education management company based out of PARC ECLATS ZI DU CHAMP DE L ABBESSE, MAUBEUGE, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Institut de la Promotion Supérieure du Travail - Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers (Ipst-Cnam) Chez IPST CNAM, nous croyons fermement en l'importance de l'éducation et de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’ORT Strasbourg, association à but non lucratif, est une école d’enseignement supérieur privé, dans les domaines du Numérique, des Ressources Humaines et de la Comptabilité.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Digi Atlas est une école en ligne qui vous accompagne dans vos projets : marketing, réseaux sociaux, freelancing, création de contenu, IA, e-commerce et bien plus encore!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exxea, organisme de formation et établissement d’enseignement privé à distance depuis 2008, vous propose plus de 30 formations qualifiantes, certifiantes et/ou diplômantes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le groupe - dispose de 3 centres de formation implantés à Nancy, Strasbourg et Metz depuis 2004.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bienvenue sur la page officielle de l'IPAG de Strasbourg.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Etablissement scolaire de la maternelle au Bac+3 dans le 9ème arrondissement de Marseille - Ecole et Collège - Lycée Polyvalent : Bac Général, Bac ST2S, Bac Pro ASSP, Bac Pro…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Développer dès maintenant votre carrière professionnelle!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Découvrez FormaVerse, votre partenaire en formation professionnelle en ligne.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We immerse future talents and industry professionals in transformative learning experiences to help them to adapt to rapidly changing times.” 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 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 for-profit universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of for-profit universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name for-profit 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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For-profit universities based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 79 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 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “for-profit 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 for-profit 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 for-profit universities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 590 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.
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 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 for-profit universities are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 79 for-profit universities headquartered in France 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?
STUDI, headquartered in Perols, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most for-profit universities?
Paris leads with 24 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (3) and Marseille (3).
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 590 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 79 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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