University of Southern California

aid: usc
name: University of Southern California
description: 'The University of Southern California (USC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, ranked
  #59 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. USC does not operate a single, centralized public API developer portal. Its
  most concretely documented public web service is the Schedule of Classes (SOC) Web Services API, which exposes course, department,
  and term data used to power the online schedule of classes. Beyond that, USC''s programmatic and data footprint is distributed
  across departmental and research GitHub organizations (such as the USC Information Retrieval & Data Science group and the
  USC Information Sciences Institute) and library/digital-collection systems, rather than a unified API catalog.'
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/usc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- United States
- California
- Courses
apis:
- aid: usc:schedule-of-classes
  name: USC Schedule of Classes (SOC) Web Services API
  description: A web service for integrating USC Schedule of Classes content (terms, departments, courses, and sections) into
    other web sites and applications. The online USC Schedule of Classes is itself a consumer of this SOC API. Documentation
    is published by USC and an archive endpoint pattern of the form /ws/soc_archive/soc/api/classes/{dept}/{term} has been
    observed publicly. The primary host (web-app.usc.edu) was not reachable from this review's network at probe time, so endpoint
    availability could not be independently confirmed.
  humanURL: https://web-app.usc.edu/web/soc/help
  tags:
  - Courses
  - Schedule
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://web-app.usc.edu/web/soc/help
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://web-app.usc.edu/web/soc/docs/html/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.usc.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uscdatascience
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/isi-usc-edu
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-southern-california/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/USC
- type: Plans
  url: plans/usc-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/usc-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/usc-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/usc-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'