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Top 25 Private universities based in Brazil
RevenueBase identified 187 private universities headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026 and tracks 91,959 professional contacts across them, including 23,145 with verified work emails. Sao Paulo is the largest hub.
This list covers private universities 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.
The 25 largest private universities based in Brazil
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,179 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Universidade Estadual de Campinas (University of Campinas), short Unicamp, is one of the public universities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 7,703 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Listed among the three largest and most important Brazilian universities, UNESP stands out as an example of a multicampus institution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 7,606 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade de Brasília foi inaugurada em 21 de abril de 1962.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 5,321 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Portuguese: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN) is a public Brazilian university funded by the Brazilian federal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 4,874 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Página destinada a professores, pesquisadores, alunos e servidores da Universidade Federal da Paraíba” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 4,490 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Educational excellence, innovation-driven entrepreneurship, and multi and intercultural learning form PUCPR’s primary purposes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,919 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade de Fortaleza oferece uma estrutura completa de Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão, tendo levado ao mercado mais de 70 mil profissionais graduados e 7 mil pós-graduados que…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,656 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 1946, a Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo é uma das mais reconhecidas e tradicionais universidades brasileiras.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,961 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,846 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Em 1994, após reconhecimento pelo Ministério da Educação e Desporto do Brasil, surge a primeira e única universidade particular até então do Estado de Sergipe: a Universidade…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,693 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A Universidade Potiguar (UnP) é a única universidade privada do Rio Grande do Norte e integra o Ecossistema Ânima, o maior e mais inovador ecossistema de ensino de qualidade do…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,682 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade Católica de Brasília é uma Instituição filantrópica, Católica, de Ensino Superior particular e brasileira, localizada na cidade em Taguatinga, no Distrito Federal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,663 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,546 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The university of the Oeste Paulista is in the top 3 best private universities in the Sao Paulo state.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,472 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Página oficial do Centro Universitário São Camilo - SP cursos nas áreas da saúde, gestão e educação.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,458 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,365 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB) é a primeira instituição de ensino superior do interior do estado de Santa Catarina.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,360 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Página oficial da Universidade Federal do Maranhão.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 865 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The State University of Maranhao (UEMA) is a public research university with more than 20 campuses in the State of Maranhao, Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 823 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unifran está entre as 10 melhores Universidades particulares do país, porque quem investe em qualidade de ensino, pesquisa e inovação tem sempre as melhores colocações.” 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: private 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 private universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private 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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Private universities based in Brazil at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
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 187 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 private 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 Brazil whose own description of what they do matches “private 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 private 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 private universities, 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, 23,145 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 private 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 private universities are there based in Brazil?
RevenueBase identified 187 private universities 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 Estadual DE Campinas, headquartered in Campinas, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most private universities?
Sao Paulo leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by Belem (6) and Belo Horizonte (6).
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 23,145 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 187 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.