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Top 25 Universities and colleges based in France
RevenueBase identified 218 universities and colleges headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 25,333 professional contacts across them, including 5,477 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers universities and colleges headquartered in France, 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.
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 universities and colleges based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,057 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec ses sept facultés et ses cinq instituts, l’Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne est présente dans tous les domaines de la connaissance depuis 1971.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'université compte étudiants répartis dans 4 domaines de compétences, ainsi que 33 équipes de recherche dont 10 CNRS ou INSERM, 2 écoles doctorales, 11 UFR et 6 instituts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,835 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Au coeur du Val de Loire, à 1 H 30 de Paris, l'Université d'Angers est installée sur 3 campus angevins,Belle-Beille, St Serge et Santé, et sur deux campus délocalisés, Cholet et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,729 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pluridisciplinaire, l’université de Tours propose des parcours de formations très diversifiés à ses étudiants, fondés sur les 3 grades européens : la licence, le master et le…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,481 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nestled between lakes and mountains on 3 different campuses in the French Alps, the University of Savoie Mont Blanc offers its students more than 200 degrees to choose from within…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1968 and independently managed since January 1st 2012, the University of Toulon (UTLN) places the University’s attractiveness at the core of its long-term strategic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 638 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1765 and reopened in 1981, the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli is one of the 71 French universities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 587 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mbway vous propose des cursus d’études supérieures en 3 ans pour aboutir à un diplôme MBA, accessibles à bac +2.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 450 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 431 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Higher education (from Licence to Doctorat), diplomas delivered through Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris - Vocational education (hundreds of diplomas and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 399 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tu as le projet, on a la formation!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 293 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La SEPR, c’est 160 ans d’expertise au service de la formation professionnelle auprès des jeunes et des adultes, de la troisième Prépa-Métiers au Bac +5.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HEC Paris Executive Education specializes in management programs for executives and managers in France and all over the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'INU Champollion (ex Centre universitaire) est un établissement public d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche implanté à Albi, Rodez et Castres.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Strasbourg (Unistra) ranks 16th in the world and 1st in Europe for innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Établissement catholique d’enseignement situé à Versailles et St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Notre‑Dame du Grandchamp accompagne chaque jeune du CAP au Master, avec une ambition claire …” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 140 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’IAE de Poitiers est un institut de l’université de Poitiers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'IUT de Sceaux est une composante de l'Université Paris-Saclay.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'ISCG Paris est une école de commerce en alternance dont les deux campus parisiens, à Rivoli (Paris 1er) et à Beaubourg (Paris 4ème) sont localisés à quelques pas du quartier des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Valence est le 1er site universitaire délocalisé de France avec pas moins de 10 étudiants post-bac en Drôme Ardèche et presque rien que dans l'agglomération!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ISME est une école de commerce et de management qui offre bien plus qu’un programme de formation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “12 écoles au sein du Campus d'Aix en Provence : PPA - ESGI - ESUPCOM - EFET STUDIO CREA - EIML - EFAB - MAESTRIS BTS - PPA SPORT - ENGDE - ISA - ISFJ - MODART Parcours Bac à Bac+5…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Préparation aux diplômes d'État : licences, licences professionnelles, masters, doctorats- Diplômes spécifiques UCO : DU - Taux de réussite important aux examens - 90% en moyenne…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Établissement sous contrat d'association avec l'État- PRÉPAS B/L - ECE - MP - MPSI - PCSI - PSI - BTS M.U.C- LICENCE 3 Économie-Gestion / D.U.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'IAE Rouen Normandie, membre du réseau IAE France (premier réseau français de formation au management), a pour objectif de former les dirigeants ou cadres des entreprises aux…” 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: universities and colleges. 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 universities and colleges.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of universities and colleges, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name universities and colleges. 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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Universities and colleges based in France at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 218 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 universities and colleges, 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “universities and colleges”. 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 universities and colleges), 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 universities and colleges, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 5,477 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.
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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 universities and colleges, 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 universities and colleges are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 218 universities and colleges headquartered in France 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?
Université Paris-Est Créteil, headquartered in Creteil, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most universities and colleges?
Paris leads with 25 headquartered companies, followed by Strasbourg (7) and Lille (5).
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 5,477 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 218 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.
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