List of Universities in the USA

Name: List of Universities in the USA
Creator: CompanyData

Last updated 21 October 2026

There are 27,728 universities in the USA, one in every 2,303 US companies. One in fourteen universities is based in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Houston. Below you find the largest universities in the USA, the cities where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our US company database or through the Company Data API.

27,728 companies indexed · Data counted on 21 October 2026

Companies27,7281 in2,303 US companiesCities3,461Largest cityNew York 599Sole traders1%Employees1-4 (42%)Revenue$100-500K (45%)Email72%Phone98%Website92%

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	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	Qualcomm Incorporated	USA	San Diego	5775 Morehouse Dr	San Diego	92121-1714	qualcomm.*****	1985	$44,284,000,000	52,000	Corporation	231	2271160
2	University Of Texas System	USA	Austin	210 W 7th St	Travis	78701-2903	utsystem.*****	1883	$26,058,040,000	104,000	Corporation	1009	N/A
3	New York University	USA	New York	70 Washington Sq S	New York	10012-1019	nyu.*****	1831	$19,815,199,000	21,000	Corporation	306	60
4	Leland Stanford Junior University	USA	Stanford	450 Jane Stanford Way	Santa Clara	94305-2004	stanford.*****	1891	$19,391,307,000	15,000	Corporation	375	1264149
5	University Of Pennsylvania	USA	Philadelphia	3451 Walnut St Rm 100	Philadelphia	19104-6243	upenn.*****	1740	$15,791,012,000	70	Corporation	479	N/A
6	The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania	USA	Philadelphia	3451 Walnut St Ste 421	Philadelphia	19104-6205	upenn.*****	1751	$9,925,251,000	20,433	Corporation	479	0000363867
7	The Pennsylvania State University	USA	University Park	201 Old Main	Centre	16802-1503	psu.*****	1855	$9,726,044,000	44,000	Corporation	551	0000274408
8	The Ohio State University	USA	Columbus	281 W Lane Ave	Franklin	43210-1132	osu.*****	1870	$8,519,415,000	40,000	Corporation	2531	N/A
9	Board Of Regents Of The University System Of Georgia	USA	Atlanta	270 Washington St Sw	Fulton	30334-9056	usg.*****	1932	$8,276,014,441	40,000	Corporation	776	N/A
10	University Of California, San Francisco	USA	San Francisco	513 Parnassus Ave 115f	San Francisco	94122	ucsf.*****	2007	$7,618,398,000	16,202	Corporation	7675	N/A
11	University Of Southern California	USA	Los Angeles	3551 Trousdale Pkwy Ste 102	Los Angeles	90007	usc.*****	1895	$7,521,509,000	22,700	Corporation	298	0024916
12	Emory University	USA	Atlanta	201 Dowman Dr Ne	Fulton	30322-1061	play.*****	1915	$7,310,968,615	23,511	Corporation	188	H103820
13	The University Of Utah	USA	Salt Lake City	201 Presidents Cir	Salt Lake	84112-9049	utah.*****	1850	$7,262,213,000	18,000	Corporation	168	N/A
14	Cornell University	USA	Ithaca	950 Danby Rd Ste 150	Tompkins	14850-5793	cornell.*****	1987	$5,758,363,000	12,207	Corporation	417	N/A
15	The University Of Iowa	USA	Iowa City	125 N Madison St	Johnson	52242	uiowa.*****	1847	$5,553,840,000	17,000	Corporation	237	N/A
16	Syneos Health, INC.	USA	Morrisville	1030 Sync St	Wake	27560-5468	syneoshealth.*****	1998	$5,393,082,000	30,000	Corporation	230	4858554
17	Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	USA	Cambridge	77 Massachusetts Ave	Worcester	02139-4307	web.*****	1861	$5,372,823,000	12,000	Corporation	139	042103594
18	Oregon Health & Science University Medical Group	USA	Portland	3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Rd	Multnomah	97239-3079	ohsu.*****	2009	$5,355,084,000	19,500	Corporation	96	66777187
19	The Washington University	USA	Saint Louis	1 Brookings Dr	St. Louis City	63130-4899	wustl.*****	1853	$5,233,476,000	9,600	Corporation	178	B00014480
20	University Of Virginia	USA	Charlottesville	2400 Old Ivy Rd	Charlottesville	22904	coopercenter.*****	2000	$5,150,410,000	51	Corporation	15	N/A
21	University Of Colorado	USA	Denver	1800 N Grant St Ste 800	Denver	80203	cufund.*****	2009	$5,012,277,000	8,921	Corporation	319	N/A
22	Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education	USA	Philadelphia	1801 N Broad St	Philadelphia	19122-6003	temple.*****	1884	$4,700,888,000	9,061	Corporation	171	0000354000
23	University Of California, Los Angeles	USA	Los Angeles	405 Hilgard Ave	Los Angeles	90095-9000	ucla.*****	1869	$4,229,576,000	3,326	Corporation	7675	N/A
24	Regents Of The University Of Minnesota	USA	Minneapolis	100 Church St Se Se202	Hennepin	55455	umn.*****	1851	$4,211,131,219	25,976	Corporation	776	N/A
25	University Of Missouri System	USA	Columbia	1 Hospital Dr	Boone	65212-1000	umsl.*****	1839	$4,012,048,000	30,282	Corporation	507	N/A

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Universities in New York

New York has 599 universities, <0.1% of all 732,093 New York companies and 88% above the national share. Two in five New York firms have fewer than five people; 75 have 50 or more. 0 new firms were entered in 2026, 45 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 251 · 42%
5-9: 133 · 22%
10-19: 56 · 9%
20-49: 84 · 14%
50+: 75 · 13%

Legal form

Sole traders: 7 · 1%
Partnerships: 4 · 0.7%
Corporations and LLCs: 175 · 29%
Other or none: 413 · 69%

Of the US total: 2.2%
Of all New York companies: <0.1%
Against the national share: 1.9×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 0
Entered 2025: 3
Of USA's 2026 entries: 0.0%

Old

Before 1990: 45 · 8%
1990 or later: 554 · 92%
Of USA's pre-1990 firms: 1.9%

Reachable

Email: 407 · 68%
Phone: 574 · 96%
Website: 539 · 90%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 98 · 29%
$100K-$500K: 170 · 50%
$500K-$1M: 16 · 5%
$1M and more: 54 · 16%

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How many universities are there in the USA?

Universities in the USA

27,728

21 October 2026

There are 27,728 universities in the USA in our data (21 October 2026). That is one in every 2,303 US companies. About 2 new firms are entered in the register every week this year (90 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 12,350 45%
Head offices: 1,412
Branch offices: 13,966

Classification

Our platform counts them on the CompanyData industry label 012145.

6,789 of the 27,728 are corporations and LLCs (24%); 337 are sole traders. They come from the state business registers and our US register data, through the Company Data API.

Largest universities in the USA

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in New York, the biggest newcomers of 2026 and the oldest firms. Click a name for the record.

The Ohio State University is the largest university in the USA by headcount. 4,153 firms employ 50 people or more; 2,324 employ 100 or more.

1Columbus40,000 staff
2Laurel37,600 staff
3Seattle27,228 staff
4Nashville21,000 staff
5Portland19,500 staff
6Little Rock14,025 staff
7Tallahassee13,497 staff
8Cambridge12,000 staff
9Boston10,400 staff
10Chandler10,330 staff

By employee size · 27,666 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	11,492	42%
5-9	5,521	20%
10-19	3,221	12%
20-49	3,279	12%
50-99	1,829	7%
100-199	982	4%
200-499	797	3%
500-999	316	1%
1,000+	229	0.8%

42% have 1 to 4 people; 3,279 have 20 to 49; 4,153 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	4,403	32%
$100K-$500K	6,159	45%
$500K-$1M	718	5%
$1M-$5M	942	7%
$5M-$10M	254	2%
$10M-$50M	497	4%
$50M-$100M	248	2%
$100M-$500M	310	2%
$500M+	142	1%

45% between $100,000 and $500,000; 942 between $1M and $5M; 1,451 above $5M.

Where in the USA?

New York has the most universities in the USA (599), ahead of Los Angeles (398), Chicago (370), Philadelphia (306) and Houston (288). Together the five hold one in fourteen of them. Relative to their size, College Station, Cambridge and Ann Arbor have the most: 10.6 to 19.6 times the national share.

Cities by number of firms

3,461 US cities have at least one university; 491 have ten or more; 1,453 have exactly one. Click a city to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Universities per 100 companies, in cities with at least 100 of them. The national share is 0.04. College Station has 19.6 times the national share.

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Dashed line: the national share. A filled dot is twice the national share or more.

By county 1,220 counties

County	Firms	%
Los Angeles	810	3%
New York	599	2%
Cook	546	2%
Orange	476	2%
Ct	378	1%
Miami-Dade	331	1%
Santa Clara	330	1%
Harris	314	1%
Maricopa	309	1%
Philadelphia	306	1%

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Firm sizes in the USA

Of the 27,666 US universities with a known headcount, 11,492 (42%) have one to four people, 5,521 have five to nine, 6,500 have ten to 49 and 4,153 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year (6,159, 45%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all US companies

Micro under 1017,013 61%
Small 10 to 496,500 23%
Medium 50 to 2493,608 13%
Large 250+545 2%

Grey line: the share among all US companies (96% have under ten staff).

1,451

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 1,197 more than $10 million.

firms were entered in 2026.

The oldest firms in the USA

Our data holds 502 US universities from before 1900, 1,010 from before 1950 and 2,310 from before 1990.

1801
1. Columbia
1804
1. Athens
1818
1. Saint Louis
1819
1. Hamilton
1820
1. Bloomington
1824
1. Troy

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2,310

US universities date from before 1990

were entered in 1990

How reachable are they?

Universities are easier to reach than the average US company: 98% list a phone number and 92% a website.

Email19,913 72%
Phone27,104 98%
Website25,618 92%

Grey line: all US companies (email 15%, phone 42%, website 24%).

The full list with these fields is in our US company database.

Sole traders or corporations: how they are organised

One in eighty-two US universities work as sole traders, against 5% of all US companies. Only one firm in four is a corporations or LLCs.

Sole traders3371%
Partnerships1630.6%
Corporations and LLCs6,78924%
No form on record or other20,43974%

Single-site: 45%
Head offices: 1,412
Branches: 13,966

All US companies: 5% sole traders, 1% partnerships, 68% corporations and LLCs.

Newcomers in the USA in 2026

90 universities were entered in the US register so far in 2026, about 2 a week, after 169 in 2025. The USA as a whole saw 2,970,531 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes <0.1% of the inflow.

1522022
2062023
1582024
1692025
902026 so far

88 of this year's 90 are corporations and LLCs.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1Evanston5 staff
2San Juan4 staff
3Chicago4 staff
4Raleigh2 staff
5Las Vegas2 staff

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 11 secondary schools for every university in the USA.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Secondary Schools	312,263	63%	45%
Universities	27,728	92%	41%
Massage Therapists	21,261	86%	98%
Private Detectives	6,019	71%	83%
PR Companies	3,285	87%	63%
Piercing Studios	1,189	91%	84%

In other countries

The USA has more universities than the UK or Denmark.

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
The USA	27,728	0.4
The UK	3,899	0.4
Denmark	756	0.8

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Frequently asked questions

How many universities are there in the USA?

There are 27,728 universities in the USA in our data, counted on 21 October 2026. That is one in every 2,303 US companies.

Which is the largest university in the USA?

The Ohio State University in Columbus, with 40,000 staff. By revenue Qualcomm in San Diego leads with $44.3 billion a year.

Which US city has the most universities?

New York, with 599, ahead of Los Angeles (398), Chicago (370), Philadelphia (306) and Houston (288). Relative to its size, College Station has the most: 19.6 times the national share.

How many universities are there in New York?

599, which is <0.1% of all 732,093 New York companies and 88% above the national share.

How big is a typical university?

42% of the 27,666 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 4,153 have 50 or more. Most turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year.

Are US universities sole traders or companies?

One in eighty-two (337) are sole traders, 0.6% are partnerships and 24% (6,789) are corporations and LLCs.

How many universities started in 2026?

90 were entered in the US register so far in 2026, after 169 in 2025. 88 of them are corporations and LLCs.

What is the oldest university in the USA?

University of South Carolina in Columbia, 1801, followed by Ohio University in Athens (1804) and Saint Louis University in Saint Louis (1818). 502 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers universities?

Our platform counts them on the CompanyData industry label 012145.

Can I download the full list?

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