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Top 25 Universities based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 50 universities headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 150,677 professional contacts across them, including 67,561 with verified work emails and 6,789 with mobile numbers. Montreal is the largest hub.
This list covers universities headquartered in Canada, 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 7, 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 based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong evidence | 14,128 contacts → | |||
“The University of Alberta is one of Canada’s top teaching and research universities, with an international reputation for excellence across the humanities, sciences, creative…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Strong evidence | 13,136 contacts → | |||
“McGill University is one of Canada's best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 13,074 contacts → | |||
“The University of Calgary is a leading Canadian university located in the nation's most enterprising city.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Strong evidence | 11,918 contacts → | |||
“McMaster University, one of four Canadian universities listed among the Top 100 universities in the world, is renowned for its innovation in both learning and discovery.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Indirect evidence | 11,471 contacts → | |||
“University of Waterloo is a leader in innovation that drives economic and social prosperity for Canada and the world.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Indirect evidence | 10,865 contacts → | |||
“Université de Montréal and its two affiliated schools, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal, is Quebec's biggest university complex and one of the largest in North America.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Indirect evidence | 10,644 contacts → | |||
“With over students and alumni, Western is a leading research-intensive university and global community of individuals focused on making change in the world, today.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Indirect evidence | 9,806 contacts → | |||
“York University is a diverse community of students, faculty, and staff driving positive change.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Indirect evidence | 7,711 contacts → | |||
“Concordia is a next-generation university, continually reimagining the future of higher education.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Strong evidence | 7,232 contacts → | |||
“One of Canada's leading universities, Dalhousie University is widely recognized for outstanding academic quality and teaching, and a broad range of educational and research…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 6,652 contacts → | |||
“Located in Canada, in the Province of Quebec, the Université de Sherbrooke is a French-speaking institution that offers you the opportunity to benefit from an academic education…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Indirect evidence | 6,474 contacts → | |||
“As Canada’s engaged university, SFU works with communities, organizations and partners to create, share and embrace knowledge that improves life and generates real change.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 6,428 contacts → | |||
“Carleton University, Canada’s capital university is situated on a beautiful campus bordered by the sparkling Rideau River and Canal, Carleton is just minutes from the heart of our…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Indirect evidence | 6,192 contacts → | |||
“The University of Saskatchewan (USask) is leading the way in tackling pressing problems like water and food security.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Indirect evidence | 4,185 contacts → | |||
“Memorial University of Newfoundland is a multi-campus, multi-disciplinary, public, teaching/research university committed to excellence in everything we do.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Strong evidence | 2,923 contacts → | |||
“The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is Canada's oldest English-language university and one of the first public universities established in North America.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Indirect evidence | 2,315 contacts → | |||
“The University of Regina is the leading experience-based learning university in Saskatchewan, located in the province's capital.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 1,639 contacts → | |||
“U of T Mississauga was established in 1967, with one temporary academic building, 155 students, 28 faculty and 40 staff members.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 1,573 contacts → | |||
“Greatness goes beyond expectation at U of T Scarborough.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 165 contacts → | |||
“Every day, more than outstanding alumni in 190 countries make a far-reaching and positive difference in their communities.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 56 contacts → | |||
“Educator / school administrator / educational consultant” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 28 contacts → | |||
“Making up approximately half of Queen's University, the Faculty of Arts and Science offers, in 30+ departments and schools, an extraordinary scope of educational possibilities…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Indirect evidence | 19 contacts → | |||
“At Beal University Canada (BUC), you are part of a strong campus community that values academic excellence.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Indirect evidence | 16 contacts → | |||
“The University of Windsor is a comprehensive, student-focused university, with more than students enrolled in a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs including…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Indirect evidence | 7 contacts → | |||
“Claremont Secondary School is an education management company based out of 4980 Wesley Road, Victoria, Germany.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 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. 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.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Universities based in Canada at a glance
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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, 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 Canada whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 universities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada 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, 67,561 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 7, 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 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 universities are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 50 universities headquartered in Canada 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?
University Of Alberta, headquartered in Edmonton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most universities?
Montreal leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Edmonton (4) and Toronto (4).
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 67,561 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 7, 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.