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Top 25 Modern universities based in Spain
RevenueBase identified 87 modern universities headquartered in Spain as of September 2026 and tracks 74,564 professional contacts across them, including 13,394 with verified work emails. Madrid is the largest hub.
This list covers modern universities headquartered in Spain, 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.
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 modern universities based in Spain
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad Complutense de Madrid es una universidad pública de calidad al servicio de la sociedad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 8,320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cruz Roja Espanola is a Higher Education company located in Avenida Reina Victoria, 26, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 5,173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The UV, A Global University The University of Valencia is a leader at the international level-It ranks second in Europe in receiving Erasmus students-It is one of the top ten…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,898 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos una universidad joven y dinámica que ha apostado decididamente por la calidad en la docencia, la investigación y por el servicio al alumno.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,829 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, founded in 1996, is the most modern of the public universities in the Madrid region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,526 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Universidad Carlos de Madrid (UC3M) is an innovative public university, committed to the advancement of society through its cutting-edge research and high quality academics…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,423 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad de Salamanca (Usal) es una de las universidades más antiguas del mundo y es uno de los centros de referencia de enseñanza superior en España.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,095 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad de Murcia del tercer milenio tiene como eje central de su actividad la consecución de la excelencia académica y científca.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,589 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ubicada en Alcalá de Henares, ciudad Patrimonio de la Humanidad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,447 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The URV was created in 1991 by the Parliament of Catalonia from the already existing university faculties and schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2,326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Facultad de Derecho (UVA)” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2,261 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad de La Laguna se encuentra en Tenerife, la mayor de las siete Islas Canarias, archipiélago atlántico situado al Noroeste del continente africano, del que dista unos…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,047 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Alicante (Valencian: Universitat d'Alacant; Spanish: Universidad de Alicante), also known by the acronym UA, was established in 1979 on the basis of the Center…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,007 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Vigo/Universidade de Vigo is an autonomous public higher education institution, open to the society and with an international vocation, committed to equality and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,734 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Girona is a public institution devoted to excellence in teaching and research and to participating in the progress and development of society through the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,697 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to the project of your life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,667 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad Internacional de Valencia se creó en el 2008 por la Generalitat Valenciana como entidad pública sin ánimo de lucro, impartiendo por primera vez en el curso…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,631 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Deusto is a centre with 125 years of experience in university education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,614 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creada por Ley 3/1997 del Parlamento de Andalucía (BOJA 76, de 3 de julio y BOE 180, de 29 de julio), la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla se concibe como una institución de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,430 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recibe mi más cordial bienvenida a la página web de la Universidad de Almería.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Lleida (UdL) is a public institution with an approximate number of students and 750 teachers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 737 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of Cantabria is a modern public institution whose main purpose is to contribute to social progress through a firm commitment to teaching and scientific excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 670 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad de La Rioja, centro público de Educación Superior de La Rioja forma parte del Campus de Excelencia Internacional ‘Iberus’.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 600 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes (UEMC) es una Universidad privada con más de 5.500 estudiantes en sus campus de Valladolid y on line Desde su fundación en 2002, la UEMC…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 512 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CUNEF Universidad is a benchmark in Higher Education thanks to its high level of specialisation, the excellence of its students and faculty, and its high degree of…” 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 Spain at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Spain, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Spain, over 87 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 Spain 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 Spain 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, 13,394 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 Spain?
RevenueBase identified 87 modern universities headquartered in Spain 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?
Universidad Complutense DE Madrid, headquartered in Madrid, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most modern universities?
Madrid leads with 23 headquartered companies, followed by Barcelona (4) and Bilbao (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 13,394 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 87 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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