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Top 25 Italian universities based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 76 italian universities headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 34,235 professional contacts across them, including 15,144 with verified work emails. Roma is the largest hub.
This list covers italian universities headquartered in Italy, 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 italian universities based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12,364 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sapienza University of Rome, founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface is one of the oldest universities in the world and a high performer among the largest universities in international…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 5,708 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With its 5 campuses, its 12 faculties and around students, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is the most important Catholic higher education institution in Europe and the only…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,962 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The third oldest university in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,686 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L'Università di Perugia è una delle più antiche d'Italia e d'Europa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,457 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Università degli Studi di Brescia (UNIBS) propone un'ampia offerta formativa con lauree triennali e magistrali, master post-lauream, scuole di specializzazione e corsi di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,447 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Università degli Studi di Trieste accoglie studenti e studentesse in un ambiente dinamico e moderno, offrendo un'elevata personalizzazione e mettendo a disposizione laboratori…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,322 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1990, Politecnico di Bari dates back to 1944 with its school of engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,291 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Profilo ufficiale dell'Università "Gabriele d'Annunzio" di Chieti -Pescara” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 958 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is located in one of the most fascinating European regions, at the crossroads between the German-speaking and Italian economies and cultures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 687 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale è stata fondata nel 1979.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 683 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L’Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa è la più antica delle Università libere italiane, e si inserisce nel sistema accademico nazionale con un’offerta formativa…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 362 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of Viterbo "La Tuscia"(unitus) is a top 10 Italian medium size university for research and teaching, is leader in R&D in the fields of agriculture, bio-science…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 353 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La forte vocazione internazionale costituisce la pietra angolare dell'Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma – UNINT che sin dal 1996 trasferisce ai propri studenti…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L'Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore” è una Università non statale istituita dallo Stato italiano con decreto del Ministro dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca del 5…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 264 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca is a research university within the Italian public higher education system.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 244 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Una delle principali università telematiche italiane, con sede a Roma, propone un'offerta formativa molto articolata con corsi di laurea, master e corsi specializzati.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1925, the University for Foreigners of Perugia is the oldest and most prestigious national institution involved in teaching and research activities as well as in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The International Telematic University UNINETTUNO, established by the decree of the 15th April 2005 of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, delivers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Florence University of the Arts - The American University of Florence (FUA-AUF) is a leading institution of higher ed in Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Istituto Universitario Salesiano Torino Rebaudengo (IUSTO), aggregato alla Facoltà di Scienze dell’Educazione dell’Università Pontificia Salesiana di Roma, si occupa di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bologna, Catania, Milan, Palermo, Rome, Turin and Pamplona (Spain): in these seven cities Camplus College hosts around 1,500 Italian and foreign students in its university…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Progetta il tuo futuro!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Collegio delle Università Milanesi è un’istituzione senza scopo di lucro sostenuta dalle sette università e da importanti enti pubblici e privati della città di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere è una struttura d’eccellenza riconosciuta dal Ministero dell’istruzione, dell’università e della ricerca.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A Padova, Verona e Roma accogliamo studenti universitari che hanno voglia di puntare in Il Collegio Mazza fa parte della rete italiana dei Collegio di Merito, accreditati dal…” 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: italian 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 italian universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of italian universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name italian 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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Italian universities based in Italy at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 76 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 italian 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 Italy whose own description of what they do matches “italian 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 italian 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 italian universities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy 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, 15,144 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 italian 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 italian universities are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 76 italian universities headquartered in Italy 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?
Sapienza Università DI Roma, headquartered in Roma, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most italian universities?
Roma leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Milan (4) and Milano (4).
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 15,144 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 76 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.