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Top 11 Higher education institutions based in Malaysia
RevenueBase identified 25 higher education institutions headquartered in Malaysia as of September 2026 and tracks 13,160 professional contacts across them, including 2,743 with verified work emails. Kuala Lumpur is the largest hub.
This list covers higher education institutions headquartered in Malaysia, 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 11 largest higher education institutions based in Malaysia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8,298 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) is the largest comprehensive university in Malaysia providing innovative education with state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology within…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,151 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) is an institution of higher education that produces human resources, experts and professionals in a variety of fields with the focus on the quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 360 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “berperanan penting dalam mewujudkan ekosistem pengajian tinggi yang terbaik di Universiti Awam (UA), Institusi Pengajian Tinggi Swasta (IPTS), Politeknik dan juga Kolej Komuniti.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HELP University was founded in 1986 to provide affordable quality educational opportunities for Malaysians.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 260 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manipal University College Malaysia 463-1, Jalan Batu Hampar, 75150 Bukit Baru, Melaka.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Powered by Peninsula College (Central) S/B 199701040327 (455827-U) DK056(B) Peninsula College (Northern) S/B 201201028285 (1012772-P) DK266-03(P)” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sunway College Johor Bahru DK265(J) Operating company Sunway College Johor Sdn Bhd Sunway College Johor Bahru, which is part of the Sunway Education Group established its presence…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From our humble inception in 1977, offering certificate programmes, SEGi’s Kuala Lumpur campus has grown from strength to strength and now offers a wide range of programmes from…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KLIA Professional & Management College is a pendidikan tinggi company based out of Selangor, Malaysia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Riam Institute of Technology (Riamtec) is a premier educational institution focused on providing top-tier education and training.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lincoln University College (LUC), located at Petaling Jaya, Malaysia was established in the year 2002 as Lincoln College (LC) and later upgraded to Lincoln University College in…” 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 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 Malaysia at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Malaysia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Malaysia, over 25 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 Malaysia 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 Malaysia 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, 2,743 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 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 Malaysia?
RevenueBase identified 25 higher education institutions headquartered in Malaysia 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?
Universiti Teknologi Mara, headquartered in Malaysia, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most higher education institutions?
Kuala Lumpur leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by George Town (2) and Johor Bahru (2).
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 2,743 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 25 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.
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