University of Waterloo

aid: university-of-waterloo
name: University of Waterloo
description: 'The University of Waterloo is a public research university in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, ranked #115 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025 and known for its cooperative education programs and strength in mathematics, engineering,
  and computer science. Its developer footprint is centered on the University of Waterloo Open Data API (the Open Data Initiative),
  a public, key-authenticated REST API exposing authoritative academic, campus, and student-information datasets. Official
  code, documentation, and datasets are published under the verified uWaterloo GitHub organization.'
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-waterloo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Data
- Canada
- Research
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-waterloo:open-data-api
  name: University of Waterloo Open Data API (v3)
  description: Public REST API powered by the University of Waterloo Open Data Initiative, providing access to authoritative,
    approved datasets covering academic, campus, and student information (such as subjects and course-related data). Version
    3 is the current release; access requires a free API key passed via an X-API-KEY request header. Version 2 was deprecated
    at the end of 2020.
  humanURL: https://uwaterloo.ca/api/
  baseURL: https://openapi.data.uwaterloo.ca/v3/
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - REST
  - Academic
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openapi.data.uwaterloo.ca/api-docs/index.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UWAPI/pages/34025641600/Getting+Started+-+OpenAPI
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uWaterloo/OpenData
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UWAPI/pages/34025641600/Getting+Started+-+OpenAPI
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-waterloo-open-data-api.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-waterloo-course-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/university-of-waterloo-course-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-waterloo-course-detail-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-waterloo-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-waterloo-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-waterloo-context.jsonld
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://uwaterloo.ca/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://uwaterloo.ca/api/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uWaterloo
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-waterloo/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/uWaterloo/Datasets
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-waterloo-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-waterloo-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-waterloo-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com