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Top 25 Student recruitment firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,281 student recruitment firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 9,738 professional contacts across them, including 2,579 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers student recruitment firms headquartered in the United States, 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 29, 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 student recruitment firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 969 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 408 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Liaison helps higher education institutions identify, recruit, and enroll best-fit students with improved outreach, application, and enrollment processes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Collegewise has guided more than students through their college admissions journeys, and we can help you in today's changing academic world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CollegeAdvisor.com connects high school students/families with effective college counseling and personalized technology to guide them through the US college application process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Higher Education in Abroad offers a High-End Career with lifelong memories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Veris Insights is a recruiting intelligence and analytics firm dedicated to helping University Recruiting and Talent Acquisition leaders attract, engage, and recruit top talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SMR Group Ltd- Recruiting Today's Sales & Marketing Leaders!*Helping Pharmaceutical-Biotech-Medical Companies Build World-Class Organizations**Providing Exceptional Talent to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Carney, Sandoe & Associates is an educational recruitment, search, and strategic consulting firm that places teachers and administrators in K-12 private, independent, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Us We all know that transitioning from university to the professional world is not always easy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Capture Higher Ed is an AI-powered enrollment marketing platform that gives colleges and universities unrivaled visibility into their enrollment funnel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Net Natives helps you connect with every potential student through the smartest, fastest student advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Over the past 15+ years, Zenith Prep Academy has guided thousands of students interested in pursuing Engineering/CS, Business, and Healthcare/pre-med to the Ivy Leagues and Top…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bright Horizons College Coach is the nation’s leading provider of education advising, offering expert guidance on the college admissions and finance processes to families of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Colledge is a college admissions consulting service, providing students and families with individualized, expert guidance on navigating the college admissions process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1 ranked recruiting firm on G2 and Summer 2026 Grid Leader.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Peak Sales Recruiting specializes in providing B2B sales recruiting services for companies that need to quickly and confidently recruit account executives, sales managers, senior…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spark451, a Jenzabar company, is a higher education enrollment strategy, marketing and technology firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Next Level Recruiting is a national firm specializing in developing targeted talent pools for clients requiring flexible solutions for continuous growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What’s with the Tornado?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1998, IvyWise has been dedicated to helping students apply and gain admission to their best-fit institutions – that is, where they will be happy and succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 15 years, AcceptU has been the trusted source for admissions consulting, with more 5-star reviews than any other provider and thousands of students admitted to top schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At ASG, we start with you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prepory Coaching Group is a college admissions counseling company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Parents hire me to guide their children to colleges, independent schools, or special programs where students can grow and thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “enrollmentFUEL is a comprehensive Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) solutions provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: student recruitment firms. 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 student recruitment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of student recruitment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name student recruitment firms. 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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Student recruitment firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,281 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 student recruitment firms, 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “student recruitment firms”. 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 student recruitment firms), 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 student recruitment firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 2,579 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 29, 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.
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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 student recruitment firms, 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 student recruitment firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,281 student recruitment firms headquartered in the United States 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?
Self Opportunity, INC, headquartered in Lewisville, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most student recruitment firms?
New York leads with 98 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (42) and San Francisco (27).
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 2,579 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,281 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 29, 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.
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