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Top 25 Hbcu recruiting firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 209 hbcu recruiting firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,322 professional contacts across them, including 327 with verified work emails. Atlanta is the largest hub.
This list covers hbcu recruiting firms 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 28, 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 hbcu recruiting firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Today Propel2Excel Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CodeHouse is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that focuses on cultivating a strong pipeline between HBCU students and industry-leading tech companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates (HYA) is a preeminent education consulting firm with over 30 years of executive search and education consulting experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rice Cohen International has been recognized as one of the 30 largest executive search firms in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spelman Johnson is a premier executive search firm exclusively committed to serving higher education, PK-12 schools, and non-profits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JK Executive Strategies is a certified women-owned executive search & professional recruiting firm based in Western New York.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We understand that business is based on building trustworthy relationships, and our team of highly skilled recruiting specialists provides the human capital support your…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Formed in 2010, Maxary Consulting is a Women Owned Minority firm (Certified by WBENC) leading provider of recruiting services for various clients through out United States” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RPA Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Opus Partners is an independent executive search firm founded by consultants who have worked together since Opus conducts senior-level searches nationally and internationally for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 40 years, Carrington & Carrington, Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Parker Executive Search is a leading global executive search firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RH Perry & Associates (RH Perry) partners with institutions of higher education and other mission-driven organizations to identify outstanding leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bryant Group is a woman- and veteran-owned executive search and leadership consulting firm, specializing in recruiting, developing and coaching great leadership for healthcare…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Minority Executive Search is a Retained Executive Search Firm that has been in business since 1985 specializing in Women and Minority job placements.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leading the Way in Mission-Driven Leadership: The Batten Group Building Transformational Teams for Your Nonprofit, Healthcare, and Higher Education Institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DiverseForce is a talent solution firm that helps organizations to recruit, retain, and develop top diverse talent in the Greater Philadelphia area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Above the Bar is a US-based boutique attorney search firm that places attorney candidates in law firms and corporations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Client-centric | Purpose-driven | Women-owned | Partner-led With our global reach, Ellig Group is dedicated to identifying the best executive talent for C-suite and boardroom…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NES specializes in identifying talented individuals in the field of enrollment management and pairing them with the finest colleges and universities in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WB & B Executive Search and Talent Solutions stands alone in its long-term commitment to diversity and innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “P3Hired is a woman-owned boutique full-service search firm owned and led by Beth Yoder, a seasoned executive recruiter with over 25 years of nationwide recruiting experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The mission of HBCU Week is to encourage high-school aged youth to enroll into HBCU’s, provide scholarship dollars for matriculation and sustain a pipeline for employment from…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2015, Ferra Executive Search is based in Pittsburgh, providing national and international recruitment support at all levels for organizations in education, healthcare…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: hbcu recruiting firms. 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 hbcu recruiting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of hbcu recruiting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name hbcu recruiting firms. 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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Hbcu recruiting firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 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 209 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 hbcu recruiting firms, 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 “hbcu recruiting firms”. 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 hbcu recruiting firms), 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 hbcu recruiting firms, 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, 327 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 28, 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 hbcu recruiting firms, 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 hbcu recruiting firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 209 hbcu recruiting firms 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?
Propel2excel, headquartered in Boston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most hbcu recruiting firms?
Atlanta leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by New York (10) and Los Angeles (9).
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 327 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 209 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 28, 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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