Search US colleges + universities via the Department of Education College Scorecard API. Filter by free-text name (q), OPE/IPEDS school id, state, city, zip, ownership (1=Public | 2=Private nonprofit | 3=Private for-profit), predominant degree level (0=Not classified | 1=Certificate | 2=Associate | 3=Bachelor | 4=Graduate), enrollment range. Returns a curated field set per school: identity (name, alias, URL, location), classification (Carnegie, locale, religious affiliation, minority-serving designation), latest admissions (admit rate, SAT/ACT midpoints), cost (in-state + out-of-state tuition, total cost of attendance), aid (median debt, federal-loan rate, Pell rate), completion rate, 10-year median earnings, repayment rate, lat/lon. Every accredited US institution. Use perPage + page for pagination; page is 0-indexed.
/api/edu/college-scorecardPAYMENT-SIGNATURE.The college scorecard API is a pay-per-call edu endpoint built for AI agents and autonomous software. Search US colleges + universities via the Department of Education College Scorecard API.
There is no signup and no API key. An agent (or any HTTP client) hits the endpoint, receives an x402 "402 Payment Required" challenge, signs a sub-cent USDC payment on Base or Solana, and retries — the data comes back on the paid request. That makes it a drop-in college scorecard data source for an agent tool-use loop, an MCP host, or a backend that needs edu data on demand without onboarding to yet another vendor portal.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
q | string | min 1 chars · max 120 chars |
schoolId | integer | min 1 |
state | string | min 2 chars · max 2 chars · match ^[A-Za-z]{2}$ |
city | string | min 2 chars · max 80 chars |
zip | string | match ^\d{5}$ |
ownership | integer | |
degreePredominant | integer | |
minEnrollment | integer | min 0 |
maxEnrollment | integer | min 1 |
perPage | integer | min 1 · max 100 |
page | integer | min 0 |
fields | string | max 2000 chars |
# 1. Probe with no auth → 402 envelope with PaymentRequirements curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/edu/college-scorecard?q=example&schoolId=1&state=xx&city=xx&zip=12345&ownership=1°reePredominant=1&minEnrollment=0&maxEnrollment=1&perPage=20&page=0&fields=example' # 2. Sign + retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/edu/college-scorecard?q=example&schoolId=1&state=xx&city=xx&zip=12345&ownership=1°reePredominant=1&minEnrollment=0&maxEnrollment=1&perPage=20&page=0&fields=example' \ -H 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <base64-json-payload>' # Or use the canonical runner (handles probe → sign → retry): # EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... node --env-file=.env.local \ # --experimental-strip-types scripts/x402-pay.ts \ # 'https://2s.io/api/edu/college-scorecard?q=example&schoolId=1&state=xx&city=xx&zip=12345&ownership=1°reePredominant=1&minEnrollment=0&maxEnrollment=1&perPage=20&page=0&fields=example'
import { TwoS } from '@2sio/sdk'
const client = new TwoS({
privateKey: process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`,
})
const result = await client.edu.collegeScorecard({
"q": "example",
"schoolId": 1,
"state": "xx",
"city": "xx",
"zip": "12345",
"ownership": 1,
"degreePredominant": 1,
"minEnrollment": 0,
"maxEnrollment": 1,
"perPage": 20,
"page": 0,
"fields": "example"
})
console.log('endpoint:', result.endpoint)
console.log('cost:', result.costUsd, 'USDC')
console.log('tx:', result.settlement?.txHash)
console.log('data:', result.data)import os
from twosio import TwoS
client = TwoS(private_key=os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])
result = client.edu.college_scorecard(q="example", schoolId=1, state="xx", city="xx", zip="12345", ownership=1, degreePredominant=1, minEnrollment=0, maxEnrollment=1, perPage=20, page=0, fields="example")
print("endpoint:", result.endpoint)
print("cost:", result.cost_usd, "USDC")
print("tx:", (result.settlement or {}).get("tx_hash"))
print("data:", result.data)// 1. Add @2sio/mcp to your MCP host config (Claude Desktop example below).
// EVM_PRIVATE_KEY funds x402 payments per call.
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"2sio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@2sio/mcp"],
"env": { "EVM_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." }
}
}
}
// 2. Once the server is running, agents call this tool via standard MCP:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "edu.college-scorecard",
"arguments": {
"q": "example",
"schoolId": 1,
"state": "xx",
"city": "xx",
"zip": "12345",
"ownership": 1,
"degreePredominant": 1,
"minEnrollment": 0,
"maxEnrollment": 1,
"perPage": 20,
"page": 0,
"fields": "example"
}
}
}| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
ok | boolean | one of: true |
items | array | |
total | integer | Total matching rows upstream; null when unknown. |
source | object | |
page | object |
{
"ok": true,
"items": [
{}
],
"total": 1,
"source": {
"provider": "example",
"url": "example",
"license": "example"
},
"page": {
"number": 1,
"size": 1,
"pages": 1
}
}