# King Abdulaziz University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kau/  
**Website:** https://www.kau.edu.sa/en  
**APIs profiled:** 1

King Abdulaziz University (KAU) is a large public research university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ranked #149 in the QS World University Rankings 2025, serving over 100,000 students across 33+ faculties and institutes. Its public web presence runs on the official kau.edu.sa (.gov.sa) domain and includes a beta "Open Data" page, a library/Deanship of Library Affairs portal, and a King Abdulaziz Scientific Platform. KAU operates gated identity infrastructure (an SSO portal at sso.kau.edu.sa and an Oracle Access Manager federation endpoint at iam.kau.edu.sa) but, as of this review, publishes no openly documented, self-service developer API, API reference, or developer portal. There is no official KAU GitHub organization; only a student-run Google Developer Student Club and individual academic projects are present on GitHub.

## Kin Score — 21.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 15.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **KAU Single Sign-On / Identity Federation** — King Abdulaziz University operates an institutional single sign-on portal (sso.kau.edu.sa) and an Oracle Access Manager federation login endpoint (iam.kau.edu.sa/oamsso-bin/logi...

## Security (1)

- **Kau Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Kau Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Saudi Arabia, Middle East

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/kau/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.