Where do the US figures come from?

The Department of Education's College Scorecard, June 2026 release, distilled from the full institution file. It is public domain.

What is in the world directory?

10,240 universities worldwide with name, country and website for lookup and validation. Admissions and cost figures exist only for US institutions.

Why are some figures blank?

The Scorecard suppresses small cohorts and some schools do not report test scores. Blank means not published, not zero.

How often is it updated?

Annually, with each College Scorecard release.

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Universities API

6,273 US colleges with admission rate, tuition, net price, completion, debt and earnings, plus 10,240 world universities

Every US college and university with the numbers families and edtech products actually need — straight from the Department of Education's College Scorecard (June 2026 release): 6,273 institutions with admission rate and average SAT, undergraduate enrollment, in-state and out-of-state tuition, average net price, completion rate, median student debt and median earnings ten years after entry, plus ownership type, degree levels, locale and coordinates. Ask real questions in one call: the most selective schools (Caltech at 2.6%), California publics ranked by graduate earnings, bachelor's programs under a tuition cap, or any campus's full profile (Harvard: 3.65% admission, SAT 1553, 97.6% completion, $101,817 median earnings). A per-state rollup and a 10,240-entry worldwide university directory (names, countries, official domains and websites — ideal for email-domain matching and signup validation) round it out. Public-domain US data, refreshed with each Scorecard release. Built for edtech, student-loan and scholarship tools, rankings sites, CRM enrichment and market research. Self-hosted — no third-party calls at request time.

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response.json

{
  "ok": true,
  "institution": {
    "unitid": 166027,
    "name": "Harvard University",
    "alias": "NA",
    "location": {
      "city": "Cambridge",
      "state": "MA",
      "zip": "02138",
      "locale": "city",
      "latitude": 42.3745,
      "longitude": -71.1183
    },
    "url": "https://www.harvard.edu/",
    "ownership": "private-nonprofit",
    "degrees": {
      "predominant": "bachelor",
      "highest": "graduate"
    },
    "admissions": {
      "rate": 0.0365,
      "sat_avg": 1553
    },
    "enrollment": 7601,
    "cost": {
      "tuition_in_state": 61676,
      "tuition_out_state": 61676,
      "avg_net_price": 19066
    },
    "outcomes": {
      "completion_rate": 0.9758,
      "median_earnings_10y": 101817,
      "median_debt": 14000
    },
    "operating": true
  }
}

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Use cases for Universities API

Build a college-search tool that filters by admission rate, tuition, state and degree level.
Show cost and outcome figures, including median earnings ten years after entry, on school pages.
Validate a user-entered institution against a worldwide directory during signup or verification.
Compare schools in a state by net price and completion rate for counselling or edtech products.

Universities API endpoints

Every endpoint with its parameters and a real example response.

OpenAPI definition Postman workspace

GETData Sources
GETGet Institution
GETSearch US Institutions
GETStates Rollup
GETWorld Universities

GETData Sources

https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/sources

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl "https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/sources" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "count": 2,
  "sources": [
    {
      "slug": "hipolabs",
      "name": "Hipolabs university domains list",
      "publisher": "Hipolabs (github.com/Hipo/university-domains-list)",
      "licence": "MIT",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/Hipo/university-domains-list",
      "file_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hipo/university-domains-list/master/world_universities_and_domains.json",
      "cadence": "community-maintained",
      "record_count": 10240,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-03"
    },
    {
      "slug": "college-scorecard",
      "name": "US Dept of Education College Scorecard",
      "publisher": "US Department of Education",
      "licence": "US Government work - public domain",
      "source_url": "https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data",
      "file_url": null,
      "cadence": "1-2 releases per year",
      "record_count": 6273,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-03"
    }
  ]
}

GETGet Institution

https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/universities/{unitid}

Path parameters

Parameter	Example
unitid	166027	Required

Example request

curl "https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/universities/166027" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "institution": {
    "unitid": 166027,
    "name": "Harvard University",
    "alias": "NA",
    "location": {
      "city": "Cambridge",
      "state": "MA",
      "zip": "02138",
      "locale": "city",
      "latitude": 42.3745,
      "longitude": -71.1183
    },
    "url": "https://www.harvard.edu/",
    "ownership": "private-nonprofit",
    "degrees": {
      "predominant": "bachelor",
      "highest": "graduate"
    },
    "admissions": {
      "rate": 0.0365,
      "sat_avg": 1553
    },
    "enrollment": 7601,
    "cost": {
      "tuition_in_state": 61676,
      "tuition_out_state": 61676,
…

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{
  "ok": true,
  "institution": {
    "unitid": 166027,
    "name": "Harvard University",
    "alias": "NA",
    "location": {
      "city": "Cambridge",
      "state": "MA",
      "zip": "02138",
      "locale": "city",
      "latitude": 42.3745,
      "longitude": -71.1183
    },
    "url": "https://www.harvard.edu/",
    "ownership": "private-nonprofit",
    "degrees": {
      "predominant": "bachelor",
      "highest": "graduate"
    },
    "admissions": {
      "rate": 0.0365,
      "sat_avg": 1553
    },
    "enrollment": 7601,
    "cost": {
      "tuition_in_state": 61676,
      "tuition_out_state": 61676,
      "avg_net_price": 19066
    },
    "outcomes": {
      "completion_rate": 0.9758,
      "median_earnings_10y": 101817,
      "median_debt": 14000
    },
    "operating": true
  }
}

GETSearch US Institutions

https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/universities

Query parameters

Parameter	Example
degree		Optional
limit	20	Optional
max_admission_rate		Optional
max_tuition		Optional
min_earnings		Optional
operating	true	Optional
ownership		Optional
page	1	Optional
q	Harvard	Optional
sort	earnings	Optional
state		Optional

Example request

curl "https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/universities?limit=20&operating=true&page=1&q=Harvard&sort=earnings" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "total": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 20,
  "count": 1,
  "results": [
    {
      "unitid": 166027,
      "name": "Harvard University",
      "city": "Cambridge",
      "state": "MA",
      "ownership": "private-nonprofit",
      "enrollment": 7601,
      "admission_rate": 0.0365,
      "tuition_out_state": 61676,
      "median_earnings_10y": 101817
    }
  ]
}

GETStates Rollup

https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/universities/states

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl "https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/universities/states" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "count": 5,
  "states": [
    {
      "state": "CA",
      "institutions": 658,
      "enrollment": 2133495
    },
    {
      "state": "NY",
      "institutions": 417,
      "enrollment": 800099
    },
    {
      "state": "TX",
      "institutions": 410,
      "enrollment": 1240605
    },
    {
      "state": "FL",
      "institutions": 374,
      "enrollment": 855408
    },
    {
      "state": "PA",
      "institutions": 317,
      "enrollment": 468960
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{
  "ok": true,
  "count": 5,
  "states": [
    {
      "state": "CA",
      "institutions": 658,
      "enrollment": 2133495
    },
    {
      "state": "NY",
      "institutions": 417,
      "enrollment": 800099
    },
    {
      "state": "TX",
      "institutions": 410,
      "enrollment": 1240605
    },
    {
      "state": "FL",
      "institutions": 374,
      "enrollment": 855408
    },
    {
      "state": "PA",
      "institutions": 317,
      "enrollment": 468960
    }
  ]
}

GETWorld Universities

https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/world

Query parameters

Parameter	Example
country		Optional
limit	50	Optional
page	1	Optional
q	Oxford	Optional

Example request

curl "https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/world?limit=50&page=1&q=Oxford" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "total": 2,
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 50,
  "count": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 8399,
      "name": "Oxford Brookes University",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "alpha_2": "GB",
      "state_province": null,
      "domains": [
        "brookes.ac.uk"
      ],
      "web_pages": [
        "http://www.brookes.ac.uk/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 8478,
      "name": "University of Oxford",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "alpha_2": "GB",
      "state_province": null,
      "domains": [
        "oxford.ac.uk",
…

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{
  "ok": true,
  "total": 2,
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 50,
  "count": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 8399,
      "name": "Oxford Brookes University",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "alpha_2": "GB",
      "state_province": null,
      "domains": [
        "brookes.ac.uk"
      ],
      "web_pages": [
        "http://www.brookes.ac.uk/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 8478,
      "name": "University of Oxford",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "alpha_2": "GB",
      "state_province": null,
      "domains": [
        "oxford.ac.uk",
        "ox.ac.uk"
      ],
      "web_pages": [
        "http://www.ox.ac.uk/"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Where the data comes from

Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (June 2026) and a worldwide university directory.
Freshness: Annual reload with each Scorecard release.

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import axios from 'axios';

const { data } = await axios.get(
  'https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/sources',
  { headers: { 'X-Api-Key': process.env.API_KEY } }
);

Universities API · X-Api-Key

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Request Parameters

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Headers

X-Api-Key

Target:

Client:

import axios from 'axios';

const url = 'https://api-universities.dataandapis.com/v1/sources';
const { data } = await axios.get(url, {
  headers: { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' }
});