Department of Education

aid: department-of-education
name: Department of Education
description: The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is a federal agency that manages and coordinates federal assistance to
  education and establishes policy for it. ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness,
  and to ensure equal access to education. The Department exposes a portfolio of public APIs through api.data.gov, NCES, and
  the Open Data Platform (ODP) at data.ed.gov for postsecondary outcomes, institutional characteristics, and federal education
  programs.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/department-of-education.png
tags:
- College Scorecard
- Education
- Federal-Government
- Higher Education
- IPEDS
- K-12
- NCES
- Open Data
- Postsecondary
tags_raw:
- College Scorecard
- Education
- Federal Government
- Higher Education
- IPEDS
- K-12
- NCES
- Open Data
- Postsecondary
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/department-of-education/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
kind: government
position: Producing
access: Public
apis:
- aid: department-of-education:college-scorecard-api
  name: College Scorecard API
  description: 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.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
  baseURL: https://api.data.gov/ed/collegescorecard/v1
  tags:
  - College Scorecard
  - Earnings
  - Higher Education
  - Postsecondary
  - Schools
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api-documentation/
  - type: API
    url: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api/
  - type: Data
    url: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/RTICWDT/college-scorecard
  - type: Signup
    url: https://api.data.gov/signup/
  contact:
  - FN: College Scorecard
    email: scorecarddata@rti.org
    url: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
- aid: department-of-education:open-data-platform-api
  name: Department of Education Open Data Platform API
  description: The Department of Education Open Data Platform (ODP) at data.ed.gov is built on CKAN and exposes a CKAN-compatible
    REST API for searching, retrieving, and downloading the Department's public datasets. The API surface mirrors CKAN package,
    resource, group, and search actions over JSON.
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  humanURL: https://data.ed.gov/
  baseURL: https://data.ed.gov/api/3
  tags:
  - CKAN
  - Datasets
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.ed.gov/about
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://data.ed.gov/faq
  - type: User Guide
    url: https://data.ed.gov/pages/publichelp
  - type: CKAN Reference
    url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.8/api/
  contact:
  - FN: Department of Education ODP
    email: ODP@ed.gov
    url: https://data.ed.gov/
- aid: department-of-education:ipeds-data
  name: IPEDS Data
  description: The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) gathers data annually from every college, university,
    and technical and vocational institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs. NCES distributes
    IPEDS data via downloadable CSV files, Access databases, and a Find Your College tool rather than a public REST API; many
    of these datasets are also exposed via the College Scorecard and ODP APIs.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds
  baseURL: https://api.example.com
  tags:
  - Bulk Data
  - Higher Education
  - IPEDS
  - NCES
  - Postsecondary
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds
  - type: Use the Data
    url: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data
  - type: Find Your College
    url: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/find-your-college
  - type: Downloads
    url: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data/download-access-database
  contact:
  - FN: NCES IPEDS
    url: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds
- aid: department-of-education:department-of-education-schools-api
  name: Department of Education Schools API
  description: The Schools API from Department of Education — 1 operation(s) for schools.
  humanURL: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
  baseURL: https://api.data.gov/ed/collegescorecard/v1
  tags:
  - Schools
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/department-of-education-schools-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/department-of-education-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/department-of-education-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/department-of-education-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usedgov
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ed.gov
- type: Open Data Platform
  url: https://data.ed.gov/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.data.gov/
- type: NCES
  url: https://nces.ed.gov/
- type: College Scorecard
  url: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
- type: Federal Student Aid
  url: https://studentaid.gov
- type: Data.gov ED Catalog
  url: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=ed-gov
- type: News
  url: https://www.ed.gov/news
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.ed.gov/about/contact-us
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.ed.gov/notices/privacy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/usedgov
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/department-of-education-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/department-of-education-vocabulary.yml
- url: https://www.ed.gov/rss.xml
  type: Blog
- type: About
  url: https://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/index.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com