# University of California, Santa Barbara

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ucsb/  
**Website:** https://www.ucsb.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a public land-grant research university and a member of the University of California system, ranked #79 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UCSB operates a formal, well-structured API Developer Portal at developer.ucsb.edu that exposes campus enterprise APIs across Academics, Administration, Dining, Employees, Housing, and Students categories. Most APIs are gated behind registration and manual account approval (security classifications include Auto-Approved, Access Approval Required, and Private). The UCSB Library also runs the Alexandria Digital Research Library (ADRL), a Samvera/Fedora-based institutional repository, and maintains an official GitHub organization at github.com/ucsb.

## Kin Score — 19.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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 · Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **UCSB API Developer Portal** — Central campus API developer portal for discovering, subscribing to, requesting elevated access for, and consuming UCSB web service APIs. Registration is required and new accoun...
- **UCSB Academics APIs** — APIs covering the life-cycle of campus, departments, and students, including Academic Curriculums, Academic Graduate Programs, Academic Quarter Calendar, BARC Quarter Calendar, ...
- **UCSB Students APIs** — APIs providing access to student rosters and individual student information including demographic, registration, academic program, and schedule data. Includes Student Courses, S...
- **UCSB Administration APIs** — Administrative APIs pertaining to financials, accounts receivable, and related campus systems, including ClassCode Lookup Service, Department Chartfield, PeopleSoft FAU Combinat...
- **UCSB Dining APIs** — APIs providing campus dining venue information used by students, faculty, and staff, including Dining Cams, Dining Commons, Dining Menu, Dining Patrons, and Meal Plan Rates.
- **UCSB Housing APIs** — APIs delivering student housing data, including Contract Status and Housing Assignments.
- **UCSB Employees APIs** — APIs offering faculty and staff details such as the Employee Job API and related identity mapping services.

## Security (1)

- **Ucsb Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ucsb Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Student Information System, Campus, California, United States

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