University of Wisconsin-Madison

aid: university-of-wisconsin-madison
name: University of Wisconsin-Madison
description: 'The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, ranked
  #46 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its Division of Information Technology (DoIT) runs a formal API Program with
  a public developer portal at developer.wisc.edu, an Apigee-based API gateway, OAuth2 client-credentials authentication,
  and published API standards based on JSON:API and OpenAPI. Documented enterprise APIs include the Person API, an HR API,
  the Curricular Data Model API, and the DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System) API. Most production APIs are gated and require
  institutional access requests, with mock variants published openly for development.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Identity
- Student Information System
- Curriculum
- Human Resources
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-wisconsin-madison:person-api
  name: Person API
  description: Enterprise API providing authoritative person/identity data for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Access
    is gated and requires an approved institutional access request; a Mock Person API is published for development.
  humanURL: https://developer.wisc.edu/docs/person-api/1/overview
  tags:
  - Identity
  - People
  - Directory
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.wisc.edu/docs/person-api/1/overview
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developer.wisc.edu/person-api/getting-access
- aid: university-of-wisconsin-madison:hr-api
  name: HR API
  description: Human resources API exposing institutional HR data such as academic units. Documented on the developer portal,
    with a Mock HR API published openly for development and testing.
  humanURL: https://developer.wisc.edu/docs/api-team-mock-hr-api/1/routes/academicUnits/get
  tags:
  - Human Resources
  - Academic Units
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.wisc.edu/docs/api-team-mock-hr-api/1/routes/academicUnits/get
- aid: university-of-wisconsin-madison:curricular-data-model
  name: Curricular Data Model API
  description: API exposing UW-Madison's curricular data model (courses, curriculum structures) documented via the DoIT WAMS
    API hub with OpenAPI/JavaDoc-style reference documentation.
  humanURL: https://wams.doit.wisc.edu/chub/curricular-data-model-1.5/apidocs/help-doc.html
  tags:
  - Curriculum
  - Courses
  - Curricular Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wams.doit.wisc.edu/chub/curricular-data-model-1.5/apidocs/help-doc.html
- aid: university-of-wisconsin-madison:dars-api
  name: DARS API
  description: Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS) API for submitting and retrieving batch degree-audit requests, documented
    on the UW-Madison developer portal.
  humanURL: https://developer.wisc.edu/docs/dars/1/types/DarsBatchAuditRequest
  tags:
  - Student Information System
  - Degree Audit
  - Academic
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.wisc.edu/docs/dars/1/types/DarsBatchAuditRequest
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.wisc.edu/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.wisc.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UW-Madison-DoIT
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://git.doit.wisc.edu/interop/external-docs/api-program
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uw-madison/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/UWMadison
- type: Status
  url: https://www.outages.doit.wisc.edu/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://git.doit.wisc.edu/interop/external-docs/api-program/-/blob/main/practices/apigee.md
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-wisconsin-madison-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-wisconsin-madison-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-wisconsin-madison-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com