# College Scorecard API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/department-of-education/college-scorecard-api/  
**Provider:** Department of Education — https://apis.io/providers/department-of-education/  
**Base URL:** https://api.data.gov/ed/collegescorecard/v1  
**Documentation:** https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/

College Scorecard API is one of 4 APIs that [Department of Education](https://apis.io/providers/department-of-education/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include College Scorecard, Earnings, Higher Education, Postsecondary, and Schools. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The College Scorecard API provides programmatic access to postsecondary institution and field-of-study data published by the U.S. Department of Education. The API exposes more than 6,000 schools and over 1,900 data points per institution drawn from IPEDS, the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS), and U.S. Department of the Treasury sources, including cost, completion, earnings, debt, and demographic outcomes. Requests require an api.data.gov API key passed via the api_key query parameter.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api-documentation/
- **API** — https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api/
- **Data** — https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/RTICWDT/college-scorecard
- **Signup** — https://api.data.gov/signup/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/department-of-education/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Department of Education APIs (3)

- [Department of Education Open Data Platform API](https://apis.io/apis/department-of-education/open-data-platform-api/)
- [IPEDS Data](https://apis.io/apis/department-of-education/ipeds-data/)
- [Department of Education Schools API](https://apis.io/apis/department-of-education/department-of-education-schools-api/)

## Tags

College Scorecard, Earnings, Higher Education, Postsecondary, Schools

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