Aalto University

Aalto University is a multidisciplinary public research university in Espoo, Finland, formed in 2010 from the merger of three institutions and ranked #113 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint is modest and mostly research- or open-data-oriented: an authentication-gated Aalto API Gateway (3scale) exposing course/student information system APIs such as the Open Courses (SISU) API, a Linked Open Aalto Data service offering a public SPARQL endpoint, and the Aaltodoc institutional repository (DSpace) with public OAI-PMH and REST access. Active open-source development is published primarily through the AaltoSciComp GitHub organization.

Aalto University publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Aaltodoc Repository (OAI-PMH and REST). Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Data.

The Aalto University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Aalto University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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27.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

4 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen DataLinked DataFinland

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Composite quality — 27.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 11.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aalto Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: aalto
name: Aalto University
description: 'Aalto University is a multidisciplinary public research university in Espoo, Finland, formed in 2010 from the
  merger of three institutions and ranked #113 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint is
  modest and mostly research- or open-data-oriented: an authentication-gated Aalto API Gateway (3scale) exposing course/student
  information system APIs such as the Open Courses (SISU) API, a Linked Open Aalto Data service offering a public SPARQL endpoint,
  and the Aaltodoc institutional repository (DSpace) with public OAI-PMH and REST access. Active open-source development is
  published primarily through the AaltoSciComp GitHub organization.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/aalto.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aalto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- Finland
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: aalto:api-gateway
  name: Aalto API Gateway
  description: Aalto's 3scale-based API gateway exposing open interfaces about Aalto and its operations, sourced from systems
    such as Oodi and ASIO. Access requires signing in with an Aalto account (and the developer portal typically requires the
    Aalto network or VPN); it is not a fully public, anonymous API.
  humanURL: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/api-gateway-application-programming-interface
  tags:
  - Education
  - API Gateway
  - Courses
  - Students
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/api-gateway-application-programming-interface
  - type: Signup
    url: https://apiportal.aalto.fi/
- aid: aalto:open-courses-sisu
  name: Open Courses API (SISU)
  description: Course-data API exposed through the Aalto API Gateway, providing course and realization information from the
    SISU student information system. A Swagger/OpenAPI reference is published, but the rendered specification and live calls
    require authentication with an Aalto account; the base path is /api/aalto.
  humanURL: https://3scale.apps.ocp4.aalto.fi/docs/swagger/open_courses_sisu
  tags:
  - Courses
  - SISU
  - Education
  - Students
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://3scale.apps.ocp4.aalto.fi/docs/swagger/open_courses_sisu
  - type: Signup
    url: https://apiportal.aalto.fi/
- aid: aalto:linked-open-data
  name: Linked Open Aalto Data (SPARQL)
  description: Open data published by Aalto University expressed as Linked Data, offering a public SPARQL query endpoint,
    a Linked Data browser, and downloadable datasets covering courses, publications, research projects, buildings, staff,
    organizational structure, and events. The SPARQL endpoint is hosted on the Linked Data Finland platform (ldf.fi/loa).
  humanURL: https://data.aalto.fi/
  baseURL: http://ldf.fi/loa/sparql
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Linked Data
  - SPARQL
  - RDF
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.aalto.fi/
- aid: aalto:aaltodoc-oai
  name: Aaltodoc Repository (OAI-PMH and REST)
  description: Aaltodoc is Aalto University's DSpace-based institutional repository of theses, articles, conference publications,
    and research materials. It exposes a public, OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (OpenAIRE compliant) for metadata harvesting and a DSpace
    REST API at /server/api.
  humanURL: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/
  baseURL: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/oai/request
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Research
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-science-and-research/aaltodoc-publication-archive
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aalto-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aalto.fi/en
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://apiportal.aalto.fi/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/AaltoSciComp
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aalto-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aalto-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aalto-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Aalto University

Kin Score

APIs 4

Aalto API Gateway

Open Courses API (SISU)

Linked Open Aalto Data (SPARQL)

Aaltodoc Repository (OAI-PMH and REST)

Pricing Plans 1

Aalto Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Aalto Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Aalto Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Aalto Context

Security Posture 1

Aalto Domain Security

Resources