Higher Education
Providers using this tag (343)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 45 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Cirrus IdentityUniversity of MacauUppsala UniversityUniversity of HelsinkiDelft University of TechnologyUniversity of WarwickCollegeCalcAIWageningen University & ResearchPennsylvania State UniversityStanford UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaConversicaUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of LausanneUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of AmsterdamRice UniversityUniversity of TwenteRWTH Aachen UniversityUniversity of TokyoKortextZotGPT (UC Irvine)University of BonnUniversity of Michigan-Ann ArborUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignLund UniversityUniversity of California, DavisKU LeuvenUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonTexas A&M UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of WarsawHamad Bin Khalifa UniversityUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of New South WalesInterfolioUniversity of GothenburgUniversity of Western AustraliaErasmus University RotterdamHong Kong University of Science and TechnologyUniversity of WashingtonUtrecht UniversityUniversity of ReadingTU Wien
Thin 130 Limited public surface area
SchoolAIMainstayTaylor's UniversityETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyUniversity of GroningenUniversity of Texas at AustinAustralian National UniversityUniversity of SheffieldGeorgia Institute of TechnologyKyoto UniversityPolitecnico di TorinoUniversity of Hong KongLancaster UniversityUniversity of ManchesterUniversity of CampinasIndian Institute of Technology BombayEPFLOpen Education APIUniversity of LisbonHandshakeUniversity of FreiburgKing Fahd University of Petroleum & MineralsWashington University in St. LouisTechnical University of MunichPeking UniversityPurdue UniversityEruditusupGradGadjah Mada UniversityYale UniversityKing Saud UniversityMcMaster UniversityUniversity of AucklandUniversity of BirminghamCarnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity of ChicagoSeoul National UniversityCharles UniversityUniversity of YorkUniversity of FloridaAalto UniversityGhent UniversityKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of OxfordMacquarie UniversityNational Tsing Hua UniversityUniversity of GöttingenHarvard UniversityUniversity of the WitwatersrandUniversity of OttawaColumbia UniversityUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of SouthamptonDepartment of EducationUniversity of ViennaNanyang Technological UniversityPrinceton UniversityEmory UniversityKhalifa UniversityTsinghua UniversityUniversity College DublinDartmouth CollegeUniversité libre de BruxellesUCLouvainTechnical University of BerlinUniversity of TübingenCornell UniversityAl-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityChalmers University of TechnologyJohns Hopkins UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong UniversityUniversity of Cape TownMcGill UniversityMichigan State UniversityTongji UniversityUniversity of Maryland College ParkBrown UniversityDebtBookFlyteDeskLabsterUniversity of BaselMaastricht UniversityCardiff UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaIndian Institute of Technology KharagpurNewcastle UniversityUniversity of California, San FranciscoUniversité de MontréalTokyo Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Los Andes ColombiaAdventus.ioUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHanyang UniversityUniversity of PittsburghKyushu UniversityUniversity of MelbourneUniversity of TorontoIndian Institute of Science BangaloreTU DresdenMassey UniversityNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityUniversity of LeedsUniversity of California, BerkeleyImperial College LondonUniversity of WaikatoMantra HealthChulalongkorn UniversityIndian Institute of Technology KanpurLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceUniversity of AntwerpPohang University of Science and TechnologyPolitecnico di MilanoVictoria University of WellingtonEmmaUniversity of LiverpoolUniversität HamburgKnewtonUniversity of BristolCurtin UniversityFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergSungkyunkwan UniversityUniversity of WollongongUnited Arab Emirates UniversityKing's College LondonNagoya UniversityUniversity of ExeterVanderbilt UniversityUniversity of QueenslandUniversity of Glasgow
Emerging 126 Early or largely undocumented
Top HatKeio UniversityCivitas LearningEllucianPiazzaAMSimpkins & AssociatesEdSightsApollo Education GroupBloomboardHeriot-Watt UniversityLeiden UniversityZhejiang UniversityUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaHumboldt-Universität zu BerlinNational University of SingaporeAutonomous University of BarcelonaÉcole des Ponts ParisTechUniversiti Sains MalaysiaVerto EducationMinerva ProjectUniversity of NottinghamUniversity of GenevaArizona State UniversityTechnical University of DarmstadtEverTrueUniversity of St Andrews8B Education InvestmentsUniversity of AlbertaUniversity of BernWaseda University51offerNational University of ColombiaTrinity College DublinTecnológico de MonterreyNanjing UniversityUniversity of SydneyFudan UniversityHong Kong Baptist UniversityOpendorseCalifornia Institute of TechnologyWestern UniversitySorbonne UniversityTohoku UniversityUniversity of AdelaideOhio State UniversityQueensland University of TechnologyAarhus UniversityNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyUniversity of RochesterVrije Universiteit AmsterdamSapienza University of RomeComplutense University of MadridUniversity of Southern CaliforniaCase Western Reserve UniversityUniversity of SussexUniversity of CopenhagenUniversity of AberdeenUniversity of PaduaBandung Institute of TechnologyQueen Mary University of LondonUniversity of ZurichÉcole Normale Supérieure de LyonÉcole Normale Supérieure de ParisBoston UniversityLoughborough UniversityHebrew University of JerusalemUniversiti Teknologi MalaysiaHokkaido UniversityTel Aviv UniversityUniversity of TartuUniversity of NavarraAmerican University of BeirutIndian Institute of Technology DelhiUniversitat Pompeu FabraQatar UniversityIndian Institute of Technology MadrasKing Abdulaziz UniversityClasseraUniversity of OtagoUniversiti Putra MalaysiaUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillQueen's University at KingstonUCLUniversiti Teknologi PETRONASUniversity of BolognaEindhoven University of TechnologyStockholm UniversityTechnical University of DenmarkGriffith UniversityNearpodWuhan UniversityMentorCloudZippinAutonomous University of MadridAston UniversityHarbin Institute of TechnologyUCSI UniversityUniversity of BathCampusUniversity of BarcelonaUniversity of IndonesiaPodium EducationTIAA-CREFUniversity of ChileUniversity of CanterburyAcademiaLa Trobe UniversityNational Cheng Kung UniversityCapella UniversityTianjin UniversityFizzQueen's University BelfastCyberpsycConcordia University MontréalCity University of Hong KongRMIT UniversityFundMinerMonash UniversityMeadowDeakin UniversityMITUniversity of Newcastle AustraliaIcon SourceQuero EducaçãoAdmittedlyMarriage Pact
Minimal 39 Almost no public developer surface
Outsmart CollegeMentor CollectiveOutsmart CollegeNoodle PartnersEcho LabsPresenceIlumnoUniversity of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland, School of Business & Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD)DescomplicaAcademic PartnershipsAdmitkardAcademic PartnershipsSidechatMosYonsei UniversityEduAdvisorMyuFederation University AustraliaSaxbys CoffeeCampus ApartmentsSchool of Engineering & Applied Science, Ahmedabad UniversityCollegepulseLaureate EducationAnyang UniversityBarnes & Noble EducationDreamscapelearnAssetWorksDrexel UniversityCollegevineOrbis EducationLomonosov Moscow State UniversityClutch LearningFunderfulBeijing Normal UniversityNational Taiwan UniversityScuola Normale Superiore di PisaUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of Technology SydneyuNow (UniversityNow)
APIs with this tag (9)
Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
InCommon Federation registrationRice's identity provider is registered in InCommon, the US research and education identity federation, and ...Kortext Platform APIThe authenticated application API behind app.kortext.com serving the Kortext study reader and companion app...Kortext VLE / LTI Integration APIThe institution-facing integration surface behind vle.kortext.com — 1EdTech LTI 1.1 launch and LTI 1.3 Deep...
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Erasmus Without Paper node (HEI ulisboa.pt)The institution's node in the Erasmus Without Paper network, through which student mobility, inter-institut...Handshake EDU APIRead-only, institution-scoped EDU API for career-services data: applications, appointments, career fairs, j...College Scorecard APIThe College Scorecard API provides programmatic access to postsecondary institution and field-of-study data...IPEDS DataThe Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) gathers data annually from every college, univer...
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Companies reaching this through an API (1)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Higher Education” 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.
Score breakdown
Frequency
64.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
4.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
26.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
87.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Where this tag sits
343 providers carry this tag directly, and 371 counting the 3 narrower tags below — 28 more to reach.
Education broader
Campus Life
10 providers
Scholarly Publishing
30 providers
University
282 providers
Related tags
University 264 co-occurrences
Identity Federation 241 co-occurrences
OAI-PMH 211 co-occurrences
SAML 224 co-occurrences
Shibboleth 181 co-occurrences
Research Data 180 co-occurrences
Research Repository 156 co-occurrences
Open Access 160 co-occurrences
Where this tag comes from
Provider tag343
Api tag10
Markets provisional
Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.
| Market | Share of the market's providers |
|---|---|
| Higher Education and Research | 57% |
| IIIF and Cultural Heritage (GLAM image interoperability, Linked Art) | 55% |
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 322 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Higher Education, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
322
of 343 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
27.6
+3.5 vs catalog 24.1
Mean Agent Readiness
15.2
+1.1 vs catalog 14.1
Spread
0–70
median 27.5 · σ 11.3
How the 322 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 2Developing 45Thin 130Emerging 123Minimal 21
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Quality | 27.9 | 18.6 | +9.3 | 322 |
| Discoverability | 63.7 | 59.1 | +4.6 | 322 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 27.2 | 24.5 | +2.7 | 322 |
| Contract Governance | 12.3 | 9.7 | +2.6 | 322 |
| Operational Transparency | 13 | 13.2 | -0.2 | 322 |
| Access Clarity | 26.5 | 30 | -3.5 | 322 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 1% | 18% | -17 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 1% | 16% | -15 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 27% | 13% | +14 |
| Security | 100% | 99% | +1 |
| Arazzo workflows | 0% | 1% | -1 |
| Governance rules | 55% | 36% | +19 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 Canvas 70
- 2 University of Waterloo 64
- 3 Contensis 62.3
- 4 University of Macau 49.8
- 5 Uppsala University 49.4
- 6 University of Helsinki 48.6
- 7 Cirrus Identity 48.2
- 8 Delft University of Technology 47.8
- 9 University of Warwick 47.8
- 10 CollegeCalcAI 47.2
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Rice University 41.7
- 2 Interfolio 41.7
- 3 Columbia University 41
- 4 Contensis 37.5
- 5 Newcastle University 37.4
- 6 University of Melbourne 36.7
- 7 Canvas 34.9
- 8 Carnegie Mellon University 34.4
- 9 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 33.6
- 10 Conversica 32.9
All 343 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the
catalog; 322 carry a score (94%).
The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 255 of 322 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 14 November 2026, across 41591 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
Coverage caveat. 255 of 322 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 14 November 2026, across 41591 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
Work with this as data
Every tag here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.