# University of Southern California

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/usc/  
**Website:** https://www.usc.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 17.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (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 | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **USC Schedule of Classes (SOC) Web Services API** — 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 Class...

## Security (1)

- **Usc Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Usc Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, United States, California, Courses

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