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Top 25 Public universities based in Spain
RevenueBase identified 50 public universities headquartered in Spain as of September 2026 and tracks 83,830 professional contacts across them, including 17,560 with verified work emails. Madrid is the largest hub.
This list covers public 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 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 public 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 20, 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 6,705 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad de Sevilla es una institución de Derecho Público, dotada de personalidad jurídica, que desarrolla sus funciones, de acuerdo con la legislación vigente, en régimen…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 6,291 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The UAB is a young, public and groundbreaking university.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,526 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3,021 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The UPF is a university that is committed to public-institution values; it is a city university engaged in the active, dynamic life of the city of Barcelona, and a university that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2,589 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ubicada en Alcalá de Henares, ciudad Patrimonio de la Humanidad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2,326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Facultad de Derecho (UVA)” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,007 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,993 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) is an educational institution that offers undergraduate, graduate, professional, and research programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,959 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Universidad de Cádiz es una institución pública comprometida con la Sociedad, con proyección internacional, cuya misión es la formación integral de personas a través de la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,821 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,784 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade da Coruña foi creada pola Lei 11/1989 do 20 de xullo, de ordenación do sistema universitario de Galicia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,697 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to the project of your life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,430 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recibe mi más cordial bienvenida a la página web de la Universidad de Almería.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,115 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of Lleida (UdL) is a public institution with an approximate number of students and 750 teachers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 907 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UVic is a public university under private management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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 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: public 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 public universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of public universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name public 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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Public 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 50 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 public 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 “public 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 public 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 public 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, 17,560 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 public 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 public universities are there based in Spain?
RevenueBase identified 50 public 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 public universities?
Madrid leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Valencia (4) and Barcelona (3).
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 17,560 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 50 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.