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Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Pohang University of Science and TechnologyUniversityHigher EducationEducationSouth Korea1 API34.6Hong Kong Baptist UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationHong Kong5 APIs33.9

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Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
TU Delft SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (NetID)TU Delft's SimpleSAMLphp identity provider — the machine-readable half of NetID. It publishes a signed SAML...65.2TU Wien SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (eduID.at / eduGAIN)TU Wien's institutional identity provider, registered in the Austrian ACOnet/eduID.at federation and interf...56.2HY Login Service — Shibboleth IdP + OpenID ConnectThe University's identity provider at login.helsinki.fi, machine-readable twice over. SAML: GET /idp/shibbo...54.9UC San Diego Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon / eduGAIN)UC San Diego's SAML 2.0 identity provider, "TritON", registered in the InCommon Federation under entityID u...54.8ANU Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)ANU's institutional identity provider, publishing machine-readable SAML 2.0 metadata at a stable URL. entit...54.3
Developing 34 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
UCLA Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)UCLA's own Shibboleth identity provider and the most complete machine-readable artifact the university publ...53.4UNSW Shibboleth Identity Provider (AAF / eduGAIN)UNSW's own SAML 2.0 identity provider — a Shibboleth IdP whose entity metadata is published as a machine-re...52.6Uppsala University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider MetadataUppsala University runs its own Shibboleth Identity Provider and publishes its SAML 2.0 federation metadata...52.5KU Leuven Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)KU Leuven serves its own SAML 2.0 federation metadata from idp.kuleuven.be, which resolves to 134.58.64.219...51.1Seoul National University SAML 2.0 Identity ProviderSNU's federated identity provider, entityID https://kafegw.snu.ac.kr/idp/simplesamlphp, registered by the K...50.7Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)The University's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://shib.manchester.ac.uk/shibboleth, asser...50.4HKUST Shibboleth Identity ProviderHKUST's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, serving machine-readable metadata at idp.ust.hk/idp/shibboleth. Ass...49.9HKU Shibboleth Identity ProviderThe University of Hong Kong's own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://hkafidp.hku.hk/id...49.6Illinois Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)The campus SAML identity provider — the one surface a university operates by definition and almost never ha...48.8Purdue Shibboleth Identity ProviderPurdue operates its own Shibboleth identity provider, entityID https://idp.purdue.edu/idp/shibboleth, with ...47.3Utrecht University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider MetadataSigned SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor for Utrecht University's identity provider, served as XML at a stable URL ...47.0SURFconext / eduGAIN Identity ProviderEUR's identity federation entry — the machine-readable institutional surface universities almost never get ...46.8University of Groningen Identity Provider (SURFconext / eduGAIN)The University runs its own SAML 2.0 identity provider and publishes signed federation metadata at signon.r...46.7Politecnico di Torino Shibboleth Identity Provider (IDEM GARR / eduGAIN)Machine-readable SAML 2.0 identity-provider metadata for Politecnico di Torino, served from the university'...46.4Lancaster Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)Lancaster operates its own Shibboleth Identity Provider and self-publishes its SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at...46.2CARSI — CERNET Authentication and Resource Sharing InfrastructureChina's national identity federation for higher education and research, operated by Peking University and a...45.4Peking University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)The university's federated identity provider, publishing live Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 metadata as machine-reada...45.4UvA Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / SURFconext)The university's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entity ID http://login.uva.nl/adfs/services/trust. Signed ...44.7University of Chicago Shibboleth Identity Provider — InCommon SAML MetadataThe University of Chicago's Shibboleth identity provider publishes its SAML 2.0 metadata document publicly....44.6SJTU Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML 2.0)SJTU operates a Shibboleth identity provider and publishes its SAML metadata openly at https://jaccount.sjt...44.5University of Vienna Shibboleth Identity ProviderThe university's SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://weblogin.univie.ac.at/shibboleth, registered ...44.2NTU Identity Provider — SGAF / eduGAINNTU's SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in the Singapore Access Federation (SGAF) by SingAREN and inte...43.3EPFL SAML Identity Federation EntitiesEPFL is a registered member of SWITCHaai, the Swiss academic identity federation, which is exported to eduG...42.6University College Dublin Identity Provider (Shibboleth / Edugate / eduGAIN)UCD's SAML 2.0 Shibboleth Identity Provider, and the institution's only authentication surface it runs itse...42.5Aalto Shibboleth Identity Provider (Haka / eduGAIN)Aalto's own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idp.aalto.fi/idp/shibboleth, scope aalt...42.2ULB Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)ULB's institutional SAML 2.0 identity provider publishes complete, unauthenticated metadata at https://auth...42.0Lund University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SWAMID)Lund University's own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Identity Provider, serving machine-readable federation metadata...41.9UCSF Identity Provider (Shibboleth / InCommon)UCSF's Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in the InCommon Federation and re-exported to eduG...41.4University of Oxford Shibboleth Identity ProviderA SAML 2.0 identity provider serving live machine-readable metadata, with Redirect/SSO, POST/SSO, POST-Simp...41.4Georg-August-Universität Göttingen SAML Identity ProviderThe university's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://shibboleth-idp.uni-goettingen.de/uni/shib...40.8Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)The University's own Shibboleth 3.x Identity Provider, entityID https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/shibboleth, ass...40.8UCT Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / SAFIRE / eduGAIN)UCT's Information and Communication Technology Services operates a SAML 2.0 identity provider registered in...40.6KFUPM Identity Federation (SAML 2.0 + OpenID Connect)KFUPM's own identity provider at sts.kfupm.edu.sa (Microsoft AD FS). Publishes signed SAML 2.0 federation m...40.3Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 MetadataThe University's own Shibboleth identity provider, entityID https://idp.unimelb.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, serv...39.6
Thin 32 Limited public surface area
USTC Shibboleth Identity Provider (跨校资源认证中心)USTC's self-hosted Shibboleth IdP 5.2.2, publishing a 15KB SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor for entityID https://i...38.3Maastricht University Identity Provider (ADFS / SURFconext / eduGAIN)Maastricht University runs its own identity provider on login.maastrichtuniversity.nl and publishes two mac...37.9FAU WebSSO SAML 2.0 Identity ProviderFAU's central web single sign-on, operated by RRZE, publishes SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata as a mach...37.1King's UK Access Management Federation / eduGAIN Identity ProviderKing's federated identity, and the surface class this pipeline flags as most often missed. The entity is re...36.8TU Dresden Identity Provider (Shibboleth SAML 2.0 + OpenID Connect)The university's own Shibboleth identity provider, operated by ZIH, and the surface class this pipeline exi...36.8TUM Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 Metadata)Machine-readable SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata — an EntityDescriptor with an IDPSSODescriptor support...36.7Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN)The university's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. entityID https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scop...36.1Curtin Library Shibboleth Service ProviderA Shibboleth SAML 2.0 service provider that Curtin Library runs on its own Kubernetes cluster, serving its ...35.5Curtin University SAML Identity Provider (AAF Managed IdP)Curtin's SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, entityID https://idpp1.curtin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, registered in the...35.5Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)Zhejiang University operates a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, entityID https://idp.zju.edu.cn/idp/s...35.1Boston University Shibboleth Identity ProviderBoston University's SAML 2.0 identity provider, publishing machine-readable entity metadata at its own host...35.0UQ Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth)UQ operates a SAML 2.0 Shibboleth identity provider, entityID urn:mace:federation.org.au:testfed:uq.edu.au,...34.8POSTECH SAML 2.0 Identity ProviderPOSTECH's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idpass.postech.ac.kr/idp/simplesamlphp, register...34.6University of Basel SWITCHaai / eduGAIN Identity ProviderBasel's SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://aai-logon.unibas.ch/idp/shibboleth, registered in the ...34.4HKBU Identity Federation (Shibboleth IdP / SAML 2.0 metadata)HKBU's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://buidp01.hkbu.edu.hk/idp/shibboleth, registered in e...33.9Western University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)Western's institutional identity provider, publishing machine-readable SAML 2.0 metadata through the Canadi...33.3ENPC SAML 2.0 Identity Provider MetadataThe one machine-readable contract École des Ponts ParisTech operates on its own infrastructure. A live SAML...33.2UCLouvain Shibboleth Identity Provider -- SAML 2.0 metadataUCLouvain runs its own Shibboleth identity provider and publishes signed SAML 2.0 entity metadata at a stab...33.1Heriot-Watt University Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)Heriot-Watt operates its own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider and is a registered member of the UK A...32.5Caltech Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)Caltech operates its own Shibboleth identity provider at idp.caltech.edu, asserting scoped attributes for c...32.1NUS entry in the Singapore Access FederationNUS is one of fourteen identity providers registered in the Singapore Access Federation, which SingAREN ope...32.0Adelaide University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)The institution's own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, serving machine-readable EntityDescriptor meta...31.2Fudan University Shibboleth Identity Provider (CARSI / eduGAIN)Fudan's SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idpfudan.fudan.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth, asserting scope ...31.1Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)The University of Sydney's federation entity serves signed SAML 2.0 metadata from federation.sydney.edu.au:...30.7VU Amsterdam SAML 2.0 identity provider (SURFconext / eduGAIN)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam operates its own SAML 2.0 identity provider on Microsoft ADFS and publishes si...30.1Sorbonne University Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)Sorbonne University's federated login, published as a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://auth.id.s...29.8UCM SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (RedIRIS SIR / eduGAIN)UCM's institutional single sign-on, registered in eduGAIN through RedIRIS SIR, the Spanish national researc...29.6University of Padova Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML metadata)The University of Padua operates its own Shibboleth Identity Provider and publishes its SAML 2.0 metadata a...29.6University of Copenhagen SAML 2.0 Identity ProviderThe university publishes a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata (200, 2...29.3TAU SAML Identity in the IUCC Identity FederationTel Aviv University federates through the IUCC Identity Federation (IUCCIF), the Israeli national federatio...27.8IIT Delhi Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)IIT Delhi runs its own Shibboleth identity provider at idp.iitd.ac.in and self-publishes its SAML 2.0 metad...26.8UCL Identity Provider — UK Access Management FederationUCL is a registered Identity Provider in the UK Access Management Federation (Jisc), and by extension in ed...26.6
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
TU/e SAML Identity Provider (SURFconext / eduGAIN)TU/e's SAML 2.0 identity-provider entity as published in the SURFconext federation metadata, which feeds ed...25.7Queen's University Belfast Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)Queen's University Belfast operates a production Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider registered in the UK...22.0CityUHK Shibboleth Identity ProviderCityUHK's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, running Shibboleth on the university's own host and publishing li...20.8University of Newcastle Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)UON's institutional identity provider, publishing machine-readable SAML 2.0 metadata at a stable URL. entit...20.4DTU Identity Federation (SAML 2.0 / WS-Federation / OpenID Connect)DTU operates its own security token service at sts.ait.dtu.dk (Microsoft AD FS) and publishes signed SAML 2...20.3La Trobe Shibboleth Identity Provider (AAF)La Trobe's SAML 2.0 identity provider in the Australian Access Federation, and through AAF in eduGAIN. The ...19.6Yonsei University KAFE Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)Yonsei University operates its own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider for KAFE, the Korean Access FEderation, on it...17.6

Companies reaching this through an API (74)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “eduGAIN” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Aalto University Australian National University Boston University California Institute of Technology City University of Hong Kong Complutense University of Madrid Curtin University Delft University of Technology Eindhoven University of Technology EPFL Erasmus University Rotterdam Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Fudan University Heriot-Watt University Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Indian Institute of Technology Delhi King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals King's College London KU Leuven La Trobe University Lancaster University Lund University Maastricht University Nanyang Technological University National University of Singapore Peking University Politecnico di Torino Purdue University Queen's University Belfast Seoul National University Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sorbonne University Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Munich Tel Aviv University TU Dresden TU Wien UCL UCLouvain University College Dublin University of Adelaide University of Amsterdam University of Basel University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego University of California, San Francisco University of Cape Town University of Chicago University of Copenhagen University of Groningen
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University of Göttingen University of Helsinki University of Hong Kong University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Manchester University of Melbourne University of New South Wales University of Newcastle Australia University of Oxford University of Padua University of Queensland University of Science and Technology of China University of Southampton University of Sydney University of Vienna Université libre de Bruxelles Uppsala University Utrecht University Victoria University of Wellington Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Western University Yonsei University Zhejiang University École des Ponts ParisTech

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Frequency
49.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
44.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
47.2
strength of nearest seed neighbor

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