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Top 25 Higher education institutions based in Brazil

Name: Higher education institutions based in Brazil
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 436 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 436 higher education institutions headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026 and tracks 95,753 professional contacts across them, including 17,935 with verified work emails. Sao Paulo is the largest hub.

This list covers higher education institutions headquartered in Brazil, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 20, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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95,753Contacts tracked

17,935Verified emails

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The 25 largest higher education institutions based in Brazil

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 436 higher education institutions based in Brazil, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to higher education institutions: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Universidade DE Brasília	Indirect evidence	Brasilia, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	7,606 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade de Brasília foi inaugurada em 21 de abril de 1962.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2	Universidade Positivo UP	Indirect evidence	Curitiba, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	6,235 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade Positivo é a Instituição de Educação Superior fruto da experiência de três décadas do Grupo Positivo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	Universidade Federal DA Paraíba	Indirect evidence	João Pessoa, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	4,874 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Página destinada a professores, pesquisadores, alunos e servidores da Universidade Federal da Paraíba” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	Universidade Federal DE Santa Maria	Strong evidence	Santa Maria, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	4,443 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Federal University of Santa Maria is among the best higher education institutions in Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	Pontifícia Universidade Católica DO RIO Grande DO SUL	Indirect evidence	Porto Alegre, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	4,173 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “É uma instituição de ensino superior, de pesquisa e de extensão, constituída por um conjunto de unidades (faculdades, institutos, etc.), que promove a formação profissional e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	Universidade Federal DE Juiz DE Fora	Indirect evidence	Juiz De Fora, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	n/a	3,694 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) is a public university based in Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais state, Brazil), with an advanced campus in Governador Valadares (in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	UEL	Indirect evidence	Londrina, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	5,001-10,000	3,053 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Criada em 1970, a Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) é, atualmente, uma das mais importantes universidades públicas da Região Sul do Brasil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	Centro Universitário UNA	Indirect evidence	Belo Horizonte, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,183 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “São 56 anos oferecendo uma sólida formação profissional e um processo de aprendizagem diferenciado para seus alunos, com diversos cursos ranqueados no Guia do Estudante da Editora…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9	PUC Minas	Indirect evidence	Belo Horizonte, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,961 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas, founded in 1958, is one of the five largest universities in Brazil and was nominated the best private university in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Unipar	Indirect evidence	Umuarama, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,852 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A UNIPAR tem como Missão a Educação Integral e a Prestação de Serviços Educacionais através de educação inovadora, com qualidade no ensino, pesquisa, extensão e serviços, formando…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	Universidade Federal DE Alagoas	Indirect evidence	Maceió, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,703 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fundada em 1961, a Universidade Federal de Alagoas (Ufal), instituição federal de ensino superior, instalada no Campus A.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12	Universidade DE Passo Fundo	Indirect evidence	Passo Fundo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,663 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The University of Passo Fundo (UPF), the university of our community, was founded 50 years ago and it is one of the most important universities in the North of Rio Grande do Sul…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	IFPI	Indirect evidence	Teresina, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,510 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “O Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí (IFPI) oferece educação superior, básica e técnica, centrando-se na oferta de educação profissional e tecnológica…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	Universidade SÃO Judas Tadeu	Indirect evidence	Sao Paulo, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	5,001-10,000	1,458 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade São Judas hoje tem quase 50 anos de história e é reconhecida como uma das três melhores universidades privada do estado de São Paulo, segundo o MEC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15	Universidade SÃO Francisco	Indirect evidence	Bragança Paulista, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,457 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade São Francisco (USF), que, em 2009, comemorou 33 anos, vem se desenvolvendo cada vez mais e, conseqüentemente, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento humano e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	UFMA	Indirect evidence	São Luís, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,360 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Página oficial da Universidade Federal do Maranhão.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	Universidade Estadual DO Centro-Oeste	Indirect evidence	Guarapuava, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,350 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Midwest State University - UNICENTRO, located in the state of Paraná, with campuses in the city of Guarapuava and Irati.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	UNESC	Indirect evidence	Criciúma, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,083 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Unesc (Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense) é uma Universidade de caráter comunitário com 47 anos de vida, que desenvolve atividades nas áreas de ensino, pesquisa e extensão.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	IESB	Indirect evidence	Brasilia, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	501-1,000	1,067 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “No dia 29 de julho de 1994, foi fundado o Centro de Educação Superior de Brasília – CESB - com a finalidade de ser o mantenedor de uma instituição que desenvolvesse atividades de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	Universidade DE Mogi DAS Cruzes	Indirect evidence	Mogi Das Cruzes, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,007 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Universidade oferece cursos de Graduação, Pós-Graduação e Extensão nas áreas de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Ciências Humanas e Ciências da Saúde.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	Uninta	Indirect evidence	Sobral, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	820 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “O Centro Universitário INTA (UNINTA) é o maior Centro Universitário cearense fora da capital do estado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Universidade Tuiuti DO Paraná	Indirect evidence	Curitiba, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	501-1,000	788 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “De um pequeno curso preparatório para exames de admissão ao antigo ginásio à consolidação como uma das maiores instituições de Ensino Superior do Sul do Brasil: essa é a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	IDP	Indirect evidence	Brasilia, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	749 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Um mundo de oportunidades em uma das melhores instituições de ensino superior do país.#sejaIDP Confira nosso cadastro no e-mec: https://bit.ly/cadastromecidp” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	Centro Universitário DE Volta Redonda - Unifoa	Indirect evidence	Volta Redonda, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	748 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “O UniFOA é referência em educação superior na região Sul Fluminense, reconhecido pelo MEC com Nota Máxima (5) em sua avaliação institucional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	Universidade DO Oeste DE Santa Catarina	Indirect evidence	Joaçaba, BrazilHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	743 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fazendo parte da sua vida como a Melhor Universidade Comunitária de Santa Catarina Há mais de 50 anos, estamos comprometidos em ajudar a construir um novo você.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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 institutions. 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 institutions.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of higher education institutions, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name higher education institutions. 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 institutions based in Brazil at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

18.7%Verified-email coverage

219.6Average contacts per company

51-200Median size (employees)

6.7%Largest-city concentration · Sao Paulo

Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Brazil, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Brazil, over 436 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 institutions, 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 Brazil whose own description of what they do matches “higher education institutions”. 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 institutions), 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 institutions, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Brazil 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, 17,935 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.

Higher education institutions by metro

Higher education institutions in Sao Paulo29

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 institutions, 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 institutions are there based in Brazil?

RevenueBase identified 436 higher education institutions headquartered in Brazil 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?

Universidade DE Brasília, headquartered in Brasilia, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most higher education institutions?

Sao Paulo leads with 29 headquartered companies, followed by Goiania (14) and Porto Alegre (13).

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 17,935 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 436 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.