King Abdulaziz University Students Data API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: King Abdulaziz University Open Data Students Data API
  version: '1.0'
  summary: KAU's institution-operated open data web service for student enrollment and graduation statistics.
  description: The web-service half of King Abdulaziz University's Open Data programme.
  contact:
    name: King Abdulaziz University
    url: https://www.kau.edu.sa/page/open-data
  license:
    name: King Abdulaziz University Open Data Licence
    url: https://www.kau.edu.sa/page/open-data
  termsOfService: https://www.kau.edu.sa/page/open-data
servers:
- url: https://opendata.kau.edu.sa
  description: King Abdulaziz University open data service, self-hosted in KAU's own 192.162.72.0/24 address block. Not reachable from outside Saudi Arabia during this run; see x-provenance.x-liveness-caveat.
security: []
tags:
- name: StudentsData
  description: Aggregate student enrollment and graduation statistics.
paths:
  /api/StudentsData:
    get:
      tags:
      - StudentsData
      operationId: getStudentsData
      summary: Retrieve aggregate student statistics
      description: Returns an array of aggregate student counts. Called with `type` alone the service returns the full series KAU publishes for that population; adding `year` and `semester` narrows the result to one academic term. All eight parameter combinations linked from KAU's Open Data page are listed in `x-documented-invocations` below.
      security: []
      parameters:
      - name: type
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Student population selector. Both permitted values are taken verbatim from the URLs KAU publishes; KAU's page does not define the letters in prose. In the archived `type=u` response every record carried a postgraduate `educationalLevel` (ماجستير / دكتوراه / دبلوم عالي), so the mapping of letter to population is recorded as observed rather than asserted.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - u
          - g
        examples:
          postgraduate:
            value: u
            summary: Population observed to return postgraduate levels in the 2025-04-17 capture.
          graduates:
            value: g
            summary: Second published population selector.
      - name: year
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Gregorian academic year. Only `2023` appears in KAU's published URLs; the service is assumed to accept other years but no other year has been observed returning 200, so none is claimed.
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^[0-9]{4}$
        example: '2023'
      - name: semester
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Academic term within `year`. KAU publishes semesters 1-3 for `type=u` and 1-4 for `type=g`.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - '1'
          - '2'
          - '3'
          - '4'
        example: '1'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Array of aggregate student count records. The 2025-04-17 capture of `type=u&year=2023&semester=1` returned 1,886 records.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/StudentsDataResponse'
              examples:
                postgraduateSemesterOne:
                  summary: First records of the archived 2025-04-17 response
                  externalValue: examples/kau-open-data-students-example.json
      x-documented-invocations:
      - https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=u
      - https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=u&year=2023&semester=1
      - https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=u&year=2023&semester=2
      - https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=u&year=2023&semester=3
      - https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=g
      - https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=g&year=2023&semester=1
      - https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=g&year=2023&semester=2
      - https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=g&year=2023&semester=3
      - https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=g&year=2023&semester=4
      x-undocumented:
        error_model: KAU documents no error responses and none was observed. No 4xx or 5xx response is described here because none has been seen; inventing one would credit KAU with a contract it has not published.
        rate_limits: No rate limit is documented or advertised.
        pagination: No pagination parameter is documented and the archived response returned all 1,886 records in one unpaged array.
components:
  schemas:
    StudentsDataRecord:
      type: object
      description: 'One aggregate count: the number of students sharing a single combination of term, faculty, department, level, study type, gender, nationality and admission cohort. Every property below was present on all 1,886 records of the archived response, with the JSON type shown.'
      required:
      - semesterCode
      - numberOfStudents
      - studyingType
      - educationalLevel
      - faculty
      - department
      - gender
      - nationality
      - admissionYear
      - admissionTerm
      - semesterDescription
      properties:
        semesterCode:
          type: string
          description: Term code, year followed by term number. Only '202310' observed.
          example: '202310'
        numberOfStudents:
          type: integer
          description: Count of students in this group. The only numeric field in the record.
          example: 70
        studyingType:
          type: string
          description: Mode of study, in Arabic.
          example: مشروع بحثي - خاص
        educationalLevel:
          type: string
          description: Award level, in Arabic. Observed values in the archived response were ماجستير (master's), دكتوراه (doctorate) and دبلوم عالي (higher diploma).
          example: ماجستير
        faculty:
          type: string
          description: Faculty name, in Arabic.
          example: الآداب و العلوم الإنسانية
        department:
          type: string
          description: Department name, in Arabic.
          example: الخدمة الاجتماعية
        gender:
          type: string
          description: Gender label, in Arabic — ذكر (male) or أنثى (female).
          example: ذكر
        nationality:
          type: string
          description: Nationality label, in Arabic.
          example: سعودي
        admissionYear:
          type: string
          description: Gregorian year of admission, as a string.
          example: '2022'
        admissionTerm:
          type: string
          description: Term of admission, as a string.
          example: '10'
        semesterDescription:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable term name, in Arabic.
          example: الفصل الدراسي الاول
    StudentsDataResponse:
      type: array
      description: Aggregate student count records, unpaged.
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/StudentsDataRecord'
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: opendata.kau.edu.sa is a host under kau.edu.sa, King Abdulaziz University's own registrable domain, resolving to 192.162.72.12 inside the university's own address block (the same /24 that carries sso.kau.edu.sa 192.162.72.15, iam.kau.edu.sa 192.162.72.96, research.kau.edu.sa 192.162.72.204 and journals.kau.edu.sa 192.162.72.203). The endpoints are published by KAU itself on its own Open Data page at https://www.kau.edu.sa/page/open-data (HTTP 200) and its Arabic twin https://kau.edu.sa/ar/page/open-data (HTTP 200), under a KAU open-data licence. No vendor name, vendor contact, or third-party host appears anywhere in this surface. This is King Abdulaziz University's own engineering, not a platform it rents.
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: derived
  source: 'Derived, not fetched from a published specification — King Abdulaziz University publishes no OpenAPI. Two independent sources were combined. (1) The endpoint inventory, parameter names and permitted values are transcribed verbatim from the eight `https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData` URLs that KAU itself links on its Open Data page, https://www.kau.edu.sa/page/open-data (HTTP 200, fetched 2026-09-01) and identically on https://kau.edu.sa/ar/page/open-data (HTTP 200). (2) The response shape is read off a real 200 response body, not invented: the Internet Archive snapshot https://web.archive.org/web/20250417190254id_/https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=u&year=2023&semester=1 (HTTP 200, application/json, 1,886 records), retrieved 2026-09-01. The Internet Archive CDX index records independent HTTP 200 application/json captures for seven further parameter combinations across 2024-03 to 2024-04, so the surface is corroborated across dates, not by a single snapshot.'
  x-liveness-caveat: opendata.kau.edu.sa could NOT be reached from this run. It resolves normally in DNS but every request from two independent network egresses returned a connection timeout or ECONNREFUSED on 443, as did every other host in KAU's 192.162.72.0/24 block, while www.kau.edu.sa (on AWS CloudFront, 3.173.x) answered 200 throughout. The consistent pattern — DNS resolves, KAU's own address block refuses, KAU's CDN-fronted host serves — reads as a geographic access restriction on KAU's self-hosted estate rather than a dead service, but this run cannot prove that. The last verified HTTP 200 from this API is the 2025-04-17 Internet Archive capture. This specification is therefore recorded as derived and NOT as probed-live.