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Top 25 Universities based in Pakistan
RevenueBase identified 78 universities headquartered in Pakistan as of September 2026 and tracks 19,212 professional contacts across them, including 3,809 with verified work emails. Lahore is the largest hub.
This list covers universities headquartered in Pakistan, 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 15, 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 Pakistan
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,751 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1882 at Lahore, the University of the Punjab is the largest and the oldest seat of higher learning in Pakistan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,999 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), established in 1985, is one of the largest universities in Pakistan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,560 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Government College University, Faisalabad has emerged as a leading center of learning and research in a short span of time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,413 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ziauddin University is committed to delivering quality higher education that inspires excellence, innovation, and lifelong learning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,338 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Sindh (Sindhi: سنڌ يونيورسٽي; Urdu: جامعه سندھ informally known as Sindh University), is a public research university located in the residential area of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,037 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quaid-i-Azam University,(QAU) was established as university of Islamabad under an Act of National Assembly passed in July, 1967.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 775 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “University of Peshawar is a future-oriented and unique institution committed to achieving excellence in the undergraduate and graduate education, research and public service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 617 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Government College Lahore began its journey on January 1, 1864, with a class consisting of nine students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 603 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) is a prominent higher education institution located in Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 394 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Capital University of Science & Technology is established by a federal charter and vested with the authority to award degrees at various levels in all disciplines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Abasyn University Peshawar was established in the year of 2008 and got the approval of its charter in the year of 2009 from the Provisional Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK)…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 388 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir is a university at Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 381 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bahauddin Zakariya University (Urdu: بہاؤ الدین زکریا یونیورسٹی ملتان) is located in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Indus University is a private sector university located at one of the prime locations in the city of Karachi and it is situated adjacent to a famous cricket ground, National…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 243 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi is a renowned academic institution that holds a history of great success, association, and ambitious plans for the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On 15 August 1996, The Punjab Group of Colleges petitioned Government of Punjab for the establishment of a university in the province.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Iqra National University founded in 2010, located in Phase 2 Hayatabad Peshawar is recognized by HEC and chartered by Government of KPK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are committed to excellence in academics, research and knowledge exchange.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DIHE is devoted to discovering, disseminating and applying knowledge for the advancement of the Pakistani Society in perspective of global changes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Abbottabad University of Science and Technology (AUST) is a public university located at Havelian (12 km (7.5 mi) from Abbottabad) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Sargodha (UOS)(Urdu: یونیورسٹی آف سرگودھا) is a public university based in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Mianwali, established recently in 2019, was previously a sub campus of the University of Sargodha since 2012.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus was established in January 2002.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Minhaj University, Lahore is located at a prestigious place which is easily approachable from all the diversely situated main areas of the city.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gomal University (Urdu: جامعہ گومل), is a public research university located in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 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 Pakistan at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Pakistan, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Pakistan, over 78 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, 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 Pakistan 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 Pakistan 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, 3,809 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 15, 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 Pakistan?
RevenueBase identified 78 universities headquartered in Pakistan 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 The Punjab, headquartered in Lahore, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most universities?
Lahore leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by Karachi (7) and Sargodha (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 3,809 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 78 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 15, 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.