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Top 25 Trade schools based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 731 trade schools headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 27,385 professional contacts across them, including 8,500 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers trade schools 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 16, 2026.
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The 25 largest trade schools based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,183 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Universal Technical Institute, Inc, is a nationwide provider of technical education training for students seeking careers as professional automotive, diesel, collision repair…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,736 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lincoln Tech is a nationally recognized leader in hands-on career training.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 598 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HBI (Home Builders Institute) is a national nonprofit that provides skilled trades training, curriculum development and job placement services for the building industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 583 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hennepin Technical College with campuses in Brooklyn Park and Eden Prairie is a member of Minnesota State.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 581 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lakeshore College is a leading provider of technical education offering 100 career programs including associate degrees, technical diplomas, technical certificates, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 496 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Francis Tuttle Technology Center serves high school juniors and seniors, and adults, with the career-specific training needed to maintain a quality workforce.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 414 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Butler Tech is one of the largest career technical schools in Ohio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 414 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YTI Career Institute's industry-modeled curricula, qualified instructors direct from the field, and facilities that mirror the workplace are all designed to prepare graduates to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 400 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vision Statement Lamar Institute of Technology will be a catalyst for innovation and opportunity, advancing technical programs and industry partnerships that drive workforce…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 348 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CET is a widely respected technical education organization known for providing job training skills for some of today’s most in-demand careers such as Green Building Construction…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 331 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 50 years, WyoTech has been training and developing qualified entry-level technicians for careers into transportation related industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 322 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moore Norman Technology Center is the workforce solution by providing organizational, industry, and career-based training to businesses in order to achieve business expansion and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 305 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit education foundation and the leading provider of construction…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The mission of the Bridgerland Technical College is to deliver competency-based, employer-guided career and technical education to both secondary and post-secondary students…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gary Job Corps Center is a vocational school in San Marcos, TX, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pinnacle Career Institute is the right choice for practical career training in today's dynamic job market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The National Award Winning Career and Technical Education Comprehensive High School in Passaic County.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 236 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EVIT offers advanced, hands-on career and technical education (CTE) at two centralized campuses in Mesa, Arizona - Main Campus, 1601 W.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lake Area Technical College (LATC) is a leader in career and technical education, dedicated to preparing students for high-demand careers through hands-on learning and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Greater Lawrence Technical School (GLTS) is a regional technical high school serving the four communities of Andover, Lawrence, Methuen, and North Andover.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Career-Technical Programs for Youth and Adults State-of-the-Art Technology Corporate Training Opened in 1975, Polaris Career Center offers career-path programs for 11th and 12th…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Franklin Cummings Tech was founded to help students achieve their goals of learning a trade and pursuing entrepreneurship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1972 by eight public school districts including Brecksville-Broadview Heights, Cuyahoga Heights, Garfield Heights, Independence, Nordonia Hills, North Royalton…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 194 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Delaware Area Career Center offers programs for area high school students and adults to earn industry credentials in specific areas of study.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Summit Academy OIC is an accredited 501c3 Career and Technical Education (CTE) institute located in North Minneapolis, Minnesota.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 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: trade schools. 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 trade schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of trade schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name trade schools. 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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Trade schools based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 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 731 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 trade schools, 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 “trade schools”. 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 trade schools), 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 trade schools, 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, 8,500 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 16, 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 trade schools, 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 trade schools are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 731 trade schools 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?
Universal Technical Institute, INC, headquartered in Phoenix, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most trade schools?
Houston leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Philadelphia (9) and Phoenix (9).
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 8,500 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 731 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 16, 2026.
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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.