King Abdulaziz University Open Data — StudentsData record

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kau/refs/heads/main/json-schema/kau-students-data-schema.json",
  "title": "King Abdulaziz University Open Data — StudentsData record",
  "description": "Aggregate student count record returned by https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData. One record is the number of students sharing a single combination of term, faculty, department, level, study type, gender, nationality and admission cohort. Records are aggregate counts only — no property identifies an individual, so the payload carries no personal data.",
  "x-operator": "institution",
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-09-01",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "Derived from a real 200 response body, not from a published schema — King Abdulaziz University publishes none. Every property, JSON type and requiredness below was computed across all 1,886 records of the Internet Archive capture https://web.archive.org/web/20250417190254id_/https://opendata.kau.edu.sa/api/StudentsData?type=u&year=2023&semester=1 (HTTP 200, application/json), retrieved 2026-09-01. Every one of the eleven properties was present on every record, and each held exactly one JSON type across the whole set; that is why all eleven are marked required and none is nullable.",
    "derived_from": "openapi/_original/kau-open-data-api-openapi.yml"
  },
  "type": "array",
  "items": {
    "$ref": "#/$defs/StudentsDataRecord"
  },
  "$defs": {
    "StudentsDataRecord": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "required": [
        "semesterCode",
        "numberOfStudents",
        "studyingType",
        "educationalLevel",
        "faculty",
        "department",
        "gender",
        "nationality",
        "admissionYear",
        "admissionTerm",
        "semesterDescription"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "semesterCode": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Term code: four-digit Gregorian year followed by a two-digit term number. Only '202310' was observed in the captured response.",
          "pattern": "^[0-9]{6}$",
          "examples": ["202310"]
        },
        "numberOfStudents": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "Count of students in this group. The only numeric property in the record.",
          "examples": [70, 65, 59]
        },
        "studyingType": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Mode of study, in Arabic.",
          "examples": ["مشروع بحثي - خاص", "برسالة جامعية - عام"]
        },
        "educationalLevel": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Award level, in Arabic. The three values observed across the captured response were ماجستير (master's), دكتوراه (doctorate) and دبلوم عالي (higher diploma). Recorded as observed values, not as a closed enum, because KAU documents no value list.",
          "examples": ["ماجستير", "دكتوراه", "دبلوم عالي"]
        },
        "faculty": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Faculty name, in Arabic.",
          "examples": ["الآداب و العلوم الإنسانية", "الحقوق", "الاقتصاد والادارة"]
        },
        "department": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Department name, in Arabic.",
          "examples": ["الخدمة الاجتماعية", "الأنظمة(القانون)"]
        },
        "gender": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Gender label, in Arabic — ذكر (male) or أنثى (female).",
          "examples": ["ذكر", "أنثى"]
        },
        "nationality": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Nationality label, in Arabic.",
          "examples": ["سعودي"]
        },
        "admissionYear": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Gregorian year of admission, carried as a string rather than a number.",
          "pattern": "^[0-9]{4}$",
          "examples": ["2022", "2023"]
        },
        "admissionTerm": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Term of admission, carried as a string rather than a number.",
          "examples": ["10"]
        },
        "semesterDescription": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Human-readable term name, in Arabic.",
          "examples": ["الفصل الدراسي الاول"]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}