# uNow (UniversityNow)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/unow/  
**Website:** https://unow.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

UniversityNow, Inc. (uNow) was a San Francisco-based higher-education startup founded in 2011 and backed by 500 Startups (500 Global) that built competency-based, self-paced online degree programs for working adults. It operated New Charter University, acquired Patten University in 2012, and its learning platform was sold to Penn Foster Education Group in 2016 and National University System in 2018. The company is defunct and unow.com now redirects to a dead page; it published no public API.

## Kin Score — 3.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 3.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (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 | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Unow Domain Security** — HSTS

## Tags

Company, Education, Higher Education, EdTech, Online Learning, Competency-Based Education, Defunct

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