University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
name: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
description: 'The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a public land-grant research university and the flagship
  campus of the University of Illinois System, ranked #40 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint
  includes the Course Information Suite (CISAPI) Course Explorer API, which exposes class schedule and course catalog data
  without authentication, and the open-source Rokwire platform that powers the official Illinois mobile app via a set of building-block
  APIs (Core, Gateway, Content, Notifications, Surveys, and more) published under an Apache 2.0 license. The University Library
  exposes institutional repository metadata through the IDEALS OAI-PMH endpoint.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Data
- Courses
- Library
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:cisapi-course-explorer
  name: Course Explorer (CISAPI)
  description: The Course Information Suite API (CISAPI) is a collection of RESTful resources that expose Class Schedule and
    Course Catalog data. It includes Schedule, Catalog, GenEd, Term, and Subjects modules. The public Course Explorer API
    requires no authentication; data is available as XML.
  humanURL: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisdocs/
  baseURL: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisapp/explorer
  tags:
  - Courses
  - Catalog
  - Schedule
  - Open Data
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisdocs/api
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:rokwire-core
  name: Rokwire Core Building Block
  description: Core Building Block of the open-source Rokwire platform behind the official Illinois mobile app, handling users,
    accounts, profiles, organizations, and authentication/authorization. Source code is published under Apache 2.0.
  humanURL: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core/doc/ui/
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Identity
  - Mobile
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core/doc/ui/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/rokwire/core-building-block
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-rokwire-core.yaml
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:rokwire-gateway
  name: Rokwire Gateway Building Block
  description: Gateway Building Block of the Rokwire platform, providing access to external university systems and data streams
    for the Illinois mobile app ecosystem.
  humanURL: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway/doc/ui/
  tags:
  - Gateway
  - Integration
  - Mobile
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway/doc/ui/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/rokwire/gateway-building-block
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-rokwire-gateway.yaml
- aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:ideals-oai-pmh
  name: IDEALS OAI-PMH
  description: The University of Illinois institutional repository (IDEALS) exposes Dublin Core metadata records through a
    standards-based OAI-PMH data provider endpoint for harvesting by external discovery and aggregation services.
  humanURL: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ideals
  baseURL: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
  tags:
  - Library
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ideals/what_is_the_oai_pmh_data_provider_url_for_ideals
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://illinois.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/rokwire
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/illinois
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign/
- type: Status
  url: https://status.illinois.edu/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com