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Top 25 Modern universities based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 97 modern universities headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 129,655 professional contacts across them, including 52,829 with verified work emails. Roma is the largest hub.
This list covers modern 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 15, 2026.
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The 25 largest modern 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 10,787 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna operates on the principle that every individual carries within themselves a unique and unrepeatable potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 8,468 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Università degli Studi di Milano, fondata nel 1924.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 7,367 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in the University of Padova is one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious seats of learning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 6,738 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tra le più antiche e prestigiose d’Italia, l’Università degli Studi di Torino ha le dimensioni di una città nella città, che produce cultura, ricerca, innovazione, formazione e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 4,513 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of Pisa, formally established in 1343, is one of the oldest universities in the world and it has been extraordinarily successful in updating its structures and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,997 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pagina Ufficiale dell'Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3,898 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tor Vergata University of Rome is a public research university located in Rome, Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3,870 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondata nel 1806 da Ferdinando di Borbone, re di Napoli e delle Due Sicilie che trasforma l'Accademia Panormitana degli Studi in Università, oggi UniPa è un mega Ateneo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3,666 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dal 1361 forma giovani provenienti da tutta Italia e non solo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3,613 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Università degli Studi di Genova (UniGe), fondata nel 1481, è uno dei più antichi Atenei europei e una delle maggiori risorse culturali e scientifiche del Mediterraneo e del…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,962 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The third oldest university in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,787 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Università degli Studi di Salerno (University of Salerno - UniSA) is a higher education company based out of Salerno, Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,727 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nato nel 1992, Roma Tre è tra gli Atenei più giovani nel sistema universitario italiano e conta oggi circa studenti provenienti da tutta Italia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,686 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Università di Perugia è una delle più antiche d'Italia e d'Europa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2,417 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Trento is placed in a location which has always been the connecting point between the Mediterranean world and Central Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2,361 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “higher education and research training We are convinced that achieving such integration makes the university a much nicer place to learn and work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2,228 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1606, the University of Cagliari is a public university dedicated to offering comprehensive and unique public education, cutting edge research and multi-discipline…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2,202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ca' Foscari University is a university in Venice, northern Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2,056 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Agraria Corso di Laurea (3 anni) Corso di Laurea Magistrale (2 anni) Corso di Laurea a ciclo unico Economia Corso di Laurea (3 anni) Corso di Laurea Magistrale (2 anni) Corso di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,971 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Università di Verona punta sull'innovazione e sulla qualità della ricerca e della didattica.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,714 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Siena has a rich history and a great knowledge-related tradition, as well a strong commitment to both research and innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,507 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University (formerly known as Second University of Naples) promotes a vocational training offer integrated with the territory, supports quality research, and promotes the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,484 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Università degli Studi di Ferrara, fondata nel 1391, è una delle Università più antiche d’Europa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 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: modern 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 modern universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of modern universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name modern 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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Modern universities based in Italy at a glance
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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 97 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 modern 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 “modern 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 modern 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 modern 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, 52,829 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 15, 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 modern 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 modern universities are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 97 modern 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 modern universities?
Roma leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Bologna (4) and Rome (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 52,829 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 97 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 15, 2026.
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