# Pennsylvania State University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pennsylvania-state-university/  
**Website:** https://www.psu.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is a public, land-grant research university with its primary campus at University Park, PA, and is ranked #69 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint is centered on a Penn State IT web developer portal (docs.developer.psu.edu) that catalogs internal REST services such as PSU ID, Academic Course, Cornerstone, Sponsored Accounts, and ASR Lookup, though those API reference pages sit behind Shibboleth/WebAccess single sign-on. Publicly reachable APIs include the Office of Physical Plant LionSpaceFIS facilities REST API and the University Libraries Researcher Metadata Database (RMD), which exposes researcher/publication metadata via an OpenAPI-described REST API gated by a license key. Penn State also maintains public open-source GitHub organizations.

## Kin Score — 36.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 62.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 40.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |

## Access

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

## APIs (7)

- **Researcher Metadata Database (RMD) API** — Penn State University Libraries' faculty and research metadata service, maintained with OSVPR and West Arete. Publishes cleaned researcher metadata (publications, presentations,...
- **Penn State IT Web Developer Services** — Penn State Information Technology operates a web developer portal that catalogs internal REST services and events and lets developers find, subscribe to, and request elevated ac...
- **Pennsylvania State University Buildings API** — University buildings and their facility attributes.
- **Pennsylvania State University Campuses API** — Penn State campus reference data.
- **Pennsylvania State University Events API** — Change events for buildings and rooms.
- **Pennsylvania State University Health API** — Service health and status.
- **Pennsylvania State University Rooms API** — Rooms within buildings.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Pennsylvania State University Agentic Access** — 6 operations

## Security (3)

- **Pennsylvania State University Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Pennsylvania State University Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published
- **Pennsylvania State University Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Pennsylvania State University Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Library, Facilities, United States

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