What it returns
Every US college and every program from the US Department of Education's College Scorecard, in clean JSON.
Colleges:** name, city, state, website, ownership, degree level, locale, coordinates, accreditor, HBCU and online-only flags, undergraduate enrollment, **admission rate, average SAT, ACT midpoint**, in-state and out-of-state tuition, cost of attendance, **average net price**, Pell and federal loan rates, completion and retention rates, **median debt** and **median earnings 6 and 10 years after entry**. Programs (majors):** each field of study x credential at each school with graduate count, **median debt and monthly payment**, **median earnings 1, 4 and 5 years after graduation**, the share earning more than a high-school graduate, and national earnings benchmarks.
Common uses
College comparison and ROI tools. "Best-paying computer science degrees" rankings. Lead lists of institutions by state, size and type.
Request
POST https://api.pushbuild.com/college-scorecard/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
dataset | string: institutions, programs | Whole schools, or individual programs (field of study x credential). Default: "institutions". |
query | string | All words must appear in the school name (or city). |
unitIds | list of strings | e.g. 166027 (Harvard). |
states | list of strings | Two-letter codes. |
ownership | list of strings | public, nonprofit, for-profit. |
degreeTypes | list of strings | Colleges only: Certificate, Associate, Bachelor's, Graduate. |
minUndergraduates | integer | Colleges only. |
operatingOnly | boolean | Colleges only. Default: true. |
programQuery | string | Programs only, e.g. nursing, computer science. |
cipCodes | list of strings | Programs only, prefix match, e.g. 11 (computer science), 5138 (nursing). |
credentialLevels | list of strings | Programs only: 1 certificate, 2 associate, 3 bachelor's, 4 post-bacc cert, 5 master's, 6 doctoral, 7 professional, 8 graduate cert. |
withEarningsOnly | boolean | Programs only. Default: false. |
sortBy | string: none, earnings, debt, size, admission, netPrice, graduates | Ordering of results. Default: "none". |
maxItems | integer | Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100. |
Example
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/college-scorecard/run \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query": "university", "maxItems": 20}'Response
{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.
Pricing
Pay only for results returned: $0.24 per 1,000 rows. No charge for errors or empty searches.
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