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Top 25 Higher education companies based in India
RevenueBase identified 513 higher education companies headquartered in India as of September 2026 and tracks 21,549 professional contacts across them, including 2,439 with verified work emails. Bangalore is the largest hub.
This list covers higher education companies headquartered in India, 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 higher education companies based in India
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,056 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a rapidly growing EdTech Company that assists students in searching and applying to overseas universities through our extensive network of 60+ offices across India and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,047 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At UNext, our mission is simple yet profound: to make higher education affordable and accessible for all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 884 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GUS Education India Private Limited (formerly known as GUS Education India LLP) is Great Place to Work-Certified™ organisation, 2026-27, 2025-26, 2022-23 and 2021-22.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 876 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 2019, Sunstone is a leading higher education services provider that partners with academic institutions to strengthen student employability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 772 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is a higher education company based out of Delhi, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 708 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Deeksha is an education services company with an expansive domain with several educational and edupreneurial wings catering to sectors that range from K-12 education…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 506 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Texila American University Consortium (TAU-C), located in India, is the Holding Company for Educational Ventures, including Texila American University Guyana, Texila American…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 491 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SHRI RAMSWAROOP MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY is a higher education company based out of Vill-Hadauri, Post-Tindola, Lucknow-Deva Road, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 491 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Santamonica Study Abroad Pvt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 469 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Manipal Global Education Services is a leading international provider of quality business and marketing solutions in higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 467 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “USDC, an education technology company, provides inspiring digital learning experiences and solutions to help Universities and HEIs transform the lives of their learners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 399 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Madras Christian College is a higher education institution based in Tamil Nadu, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 367 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are NMIMS CDOE - India's Premiere Institution for career led education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur is a higher education company based out of Central University of Tamil Nadu, Neelakudi, Kangalancherry, Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati is a higher education research institution located at Airport Road, Azara, Guwahati, Assam, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mahatma Gandhi University (M.G.U) is established through Meghalaya State legislative Act, 2010 (Meghalaya Act No.6 of 2011), published in the Gazette of Meghalaya vide No.LL…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Agurchand Manmull Jain College - A M Jain College is a top ranking Research and Post Graduate institution located in Chennai” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Central University of Himachal Pradesh is a higher education company based out of Dharamshala Road, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AYYA NADAR JANAKI AMMAL COLLEGE is a higher education company based out of SRIVILLIPUTTUR ROAD, SIVAKASI, Tamil Nadu, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Universitas Abdurrab is a religious institutions company based out of JI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sanaka Educational Trust's Group of Institutions is a higher education company based out of VILL.+P.O- MALANDIGHI P.S- KANKSA, DURGAPUR, West Bengal, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PRIST University - India is a company based out of Tiruchirapalli Campus Paganur Village, Dindigul Main Road, Near Chatrapatti, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.” 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: higher education 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 higher education companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of higher education companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name higher education 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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Higher education companies based in India at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for India, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for India, over 513 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 higher education 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 India whose own description of what they do matches “higher education 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 higher education 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 higher education companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside India 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, 2,439 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 higher education 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 higher education companies are there based in India?
RevenueBase identified 513 higher education companies headquartered in India 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?
KC Overseas, headquartered in Nagpur, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most higher education companies?
Bangalore leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by New Delhi (20) and Noida (19).
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 2,439 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 513 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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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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