Higher Education
Providers using this tag (328)
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 40 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Cirrus IdentityUniversity of MacauUniversity of HelsinkiUppsala UniversityUniversity of WarwickDelft University of TechnologyWageningen University & ResearchPennsylvania State UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of LausanneStanford UniversityZotGPT (UC Irvine)University of CambridgeUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of TokyoUniversity of WarsawUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonRice UniversityUniversity of BonnUniversity of AmsterdamUniversity of Michigan-Ann ArborRWTH Aachen UniversityUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of GothenburgLund UniversityUniversity of TwenteUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignConversicaUniversity of Hong KongUniversity of New South WalesTaylor's UniversityKortextHong Kong University of Science and TechnologyOpen Education APIUtrecht UniversityKU LeuvenHamad Bin Khalifa University
Thin 118 Limited public surface area
SchoolAIMainstayUniversity of Texas at AustinAustralian National UniversityUniversity of WashingtonWashington University in St. LouisIndian Institute of Technology BombayTU WienTexas A&M UniversityPolitecnico di TorinoYale UniversityETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyEPFLKyoto UniversityLancaster UniversityErasmus University RotterdamUniversity of CampinasUniversity of GroningenUniversity of BirminghamGeorgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of FloridaUniversity of Western AustraliaUniversity of ReadingUniversity of SheffieldGadjah Mada UniversityUniversity of ChicagoCarnegie Mellon UniversityMcMaster UniversityUniversity of AucklandHandshakeUniversity of ManchesterPurdue UniversityUniversity of LisbonUniversity of SouthamptonHarvard UniversityUniversity of CalgaryKing Saud UniversityNational Tsing Hua UniversityTechnical University of MunichTsinghua UniversityEmory UniversitySeoul National UniversityUniversity of the WitwatersrandCharles UniversityUniversity of OxfordUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of FreiburgColumbia UniversityKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyPeking UniversityUniversity of YorkDepartment of EducationUniversity of OttawaMacquarie UniversityAl-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityUniversity of ViennaShanghai Jiao Tong UniversityTongji UniversityEruditusKing Fahd University of Petroleum & MineralsGhent UniversityPrinceton UniversityChalmers University of TechnologyNanyang Technological UniversityUniversity College DublinCornell UniversityCardiff UniversityDartmouth CollegeTechnical University of BerlinupGradUniversity of GöttingenUniversité libre de BruxellesJohns Hopkins UniversityMcGill UniversityUniversity of TübingenIndian Institute of Technology KharagpurUniversity of Cape TownUniversity of PennsylvaniaDebtBookUniversity of Maryland College ParkMichigan State UniversityUniversity of California, San FranciscoUniversity of TorontoNewcastle UniversityUniversity of BaselLabsterBrown UniversityUniversity of MelbourneUniversité de MontréalUCLouvainUniversity of PittsburghIndian Institute of Technology KanpurMassey UniversityNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityTokyo Institute of TechnologyFlyteDeskIndian Institute of Science BangaloreImperial College LondonKnewtonAdventus.ioUniversity of LeedsFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergPolitecnico di MilanoHanyang UniversityUniversity of Los Andes ColombiaMaastricht UniversityUniversity of LiverpoolKyushu UniversityUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaNagoya UniversityUniversity of BristolTU DresdenUniversity of California, BerkeleyVictoria University of WellingtonSungkyunkwan UniversityUniversity of ExeterUniversiti Sains MalaysiaNational University of Singapore
Emerging 131 Early or largely undocumented
Keio UniversityTop HatCivitas LearningAMSimpkins & AssociatesEllucianPiazzaUniversity of WollongongKing's College LondonUniversity of AntwerpUniversität HamburgUniversity of QueenslandUniversity of GenevaZhejiang UniversityApollo Education GroupPohang University of Science and TechnologyUnited Arab Emirates UniversityLeiden UniversityLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceVanderbilt UniversityHeriot-Watt UniversityKhalifa UniversityVerto EducationCurtin UniversityMantra HealthNanjing UniversityUniversity of AlbertaUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaUniversity of WaikatoÉcole des Ponts ParisTechHumboldt-Universität zu BerlinNational University of ColombiaArizona State UniversityTechnical University of DarmstadtUniversity of NottinghamWestern UniversityUniversity of GlasgowHong Kong Baptist UniversityMinerva ProjectWaseda UniversityAutonomous University of BarcelonaQueensland University of TechnologyTrinity College DublinBloomboardSapienza University of RomeTecnológico de MonterreyTohoku UniversityUniversity of St AndrewsCalifornia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of BernUniversity of AdelaideUniversity of RochesterOpendorseUniversity of SydneyAarhus UniversitySorbonne UniversityUniversity of Southern California8B Education InvestmentsNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyBandung Institute of TechnologyComplutense University of MadridUniversity of SussexFudan UniversityUniversity of ZurichVrije Universiteit AmsterdamBoston UniversityUniversity of PaduaCase Western Reserve UniversityHebrew University of JerusalemQueen Mary University of LondonÉcole Normale Supérieure de ParisOhio State UniversityUniversity of CopenhagenUniversitat Pompeu FabraUniversity of AberdeenQatar UniversityUniversiti Teknologi MalaysiaÉcole Normale Supérieure de Lyon51offerEverTrueHokkaido UniversityUniversity of OtagoUCLAmerican University of BeirutIndian Institute of Technology MadrasQueen's University at KingstonLoughborough UniversityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillTel Aviv UniversityNearpodClasseraUniversity of BolognaKing Abdulaziz UniversityGriffith UniversityWuhan UniversityUCSI UniversityUniversiti Putra MalaysiaEindhoven University of TechnologyAutonomous University of MadridIndian Institute of Technology DelhiTechnical University of DenmarkStockholm UniversityUniversiti Teknologi PETRONASUniversity of NavarraHarbin Institute of TechnologyUniversity of IndonesiaUniversity of BarcelonaUniversity of BathPodium EducationUniversity of CanterburyUniversity of ChileLa Trobe UniversityTIAA-CREFTianjin UniversityMentorCloudZippinQueen's University BelfastCapella UniversityNational Cheng Kung UniversityCampusMonash UniversityCity University of Hong KongMITDeakin UniversityRMIT UniversityAcademiaAdmittedlyUniversity of Newcastle AustraliaCyberpsycFizzSidechatIcon Source
Minimal 36 Almost no public developer surface
EdSightsMentor CollectiveOutsmart CollegeNoodle PartnersPresenceEcho LabsIlumnoMeadowDescomplicaYonsei UniversityFundMinerQuero EducaçãoAdmitkardMarriage PactCampus ApartmentsEduAdvisorSaxbys CoffeeMosLaureate EducationAcademic PartnershipsAssetWorksMyuCollegepulseBarnes & Noble EducationDrexel UniversityCollegevineClutch LearningOrbis EducationLomonosov Moscow State UniversityFunderfulBeijing 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 5 Limited public surface area
Handshake EDU APIRead-only, institution-scoped EDU API for career-services data: applications, appointments, career fairs, j...Erasmus Without Paper node (HEI ulisboa.pt)The institution's node in the Erasmus Without Paper network, through which student mobility, inter-institut...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...College Scorecard APIThe College Scorecard API, operated by the U.S. Department of Education via api.data.gov, exposes instituti...
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
68.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
7.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
27.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
88.5
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Where this tag sits
328 providers carry this tag directly, and 340 counting the 3 narrower tags below — 12 more to reach.
Education broader
Campus Life
10 providers
Scholarly Publishing
30 providers
University
259 providers
Related tags
University 257 co-occurrences
Identity Federation 239 co-occurrences
OAI-PMH 209 co-occurrences
SAML 222 co-occurrences
Shibboleth 180 co-occurrences
Research Data 178 co-occurrences
Research Repository 155 co-occurrences
Open Access 158 co-occurrences
Where this tag comes from
Provider tag331
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 316 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
316
of 328 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
27.1
+4.9 vs catalog 22.2
Mean Agent Readiness
15.1
+3.1 vs catalog 12
Spread
0–68.9
median 26.7 · σ 10.9
How the 316 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 2Developing 40Thin 118Emerging 131Minimal 24
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Quality | 26.9 | 17.2 | +9.7 | 316 |
| Discoverability | 63.6 | 57.9 | +5.7 | 316 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 27.1 | 23.2 | +3.9 | 316 |
| Contract Governance | 10.1 | 6.5 | +3.6 | 316 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 | 23.9 | -0.2 | 316 |
| Operational Transparency | 12.7 | 13 | -0.3 | 316 |
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% | 13% | -12 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 1% | 12% | -11 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 28% | 11% | +17 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 0% | 2% | -2 |
| Governance rules | 39% | 16% | +23 |
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 68.9
- 2 University of Waterloo 61.3
- 3 Contensis 58.7
- 4 University of Macau 50.8
- 5 University of Helsinki 49.2
- 6 Uppsala University 49.2
- 7 University of Warwick 47.9
- 8 Delft University of Technology 47.6
- 9 Wageningen University & Research 46.2
- 10 Pennsylvania State University 46.1
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Rice University 44.8
- 2 Columbia University 41
- 3 Canvas 37.6
- 4 Contensis 37.5
- 5 Newcastle University 37.4
- 6 University of Melbourne 36.1
- 7 Carnegie Mellon University 34.4
- 8 Queensland University of Technology 34.3
- 9 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 33.6
- 10 Conversica 32.9
All 328 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the
catalog; 316 carry a score (96%).
The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 256 of 316 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 24 October 2026, across 31984 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. 256 of 316 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 24 October 2026, across 31984 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.