# College Scorecard Scraper (`parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper`) Actor

Scrape 6,000+ US colleges and universities from College Scorecard. Get tuition costs, admission rates, graduation rates, post-graduation earnings, demographics, financial aid data, and 65+ fields per school. Filter by state and degree type.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Education, Lead generation, Other
- **Stats:** 7 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

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```

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```bash
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```

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# Windows
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```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

![ParseForge Banner](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ParseForge/apify-assets/main/banner.jpg)

## 🎓 College Scorecard Scraper - U.S. Higher Education Data


<table><tr>
<td style="border-left:4px solid #0F766E;padding:12px 16px;font-weight:600">Pull structured records from College Scorecard — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.</td>
</tr></table>

##### Copy to your AI assistant

Copy this block into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or any LLM to start using this actor.

````

parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper").call(run\_input={...}), then client.dataset(run\["defaultDatasetId"]).list\_items().items for results. Key inputs: maxItems (integer, default 10), state (string), degreeType (string). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~college-scorecard-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

````

🚀 Collect comprehensive data on 6,000+ U.S. colleges and universities from the Department of Education. Get tuition costs, admission rates, graduation rates, post-graduation earnings, demographics, financial aid, and institutional details.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Whether you are a student comparing universities, a researcher analyzing higher education trends, or a consultant building college recommendation tools, this scraper delivers comprehensive data from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.

The College Scorecard Scraper provides 65+ data fields per school including tuition costs, admission rates, SAT/ACT scores, completion rates, median earnings at 6 and 10 years after enrollment, student demographics, financial aid statistics, and institutional details. Filter by state and degree type.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Target Audience** | Students and parents, higher education researchers, EdTech companies, financial advisors, policy analysts, recruiters |
| **Primary Use Cases** | College comparison, ROI analysis, recommendation engines, enrollment trend research, financial aid analysis, school performance tracking |

---

### 📋 What Does It Do

- Collects school profiles with names, locations, accreditors, ownership type, and degree levels
- Extracts in-state and out-of-state tuition, average net price, and cost of attendance
- Gets admission rates, completion rates, retention rates, and SAT/ACT scores
- Includes median earnings at 6 and 10 years after enrollment, median debt, and monthly loan payments
- Provides student body size, gender breakdown, racial/ethnic composition, and first-generation stats
- Delivers faculty salary, student-faculty ratio, endowment, and instructional expenditure data

---

### 🎬 How to Use - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon.

---

### ⚙️ Input

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Field</th>
    <th>Type</th>
    <th>Description</th>
    <th>Default</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong>Max Items</strong></td>
    <td>integer</td>
    <td>Free users: limited to 10 items. Paid users: up to 1,000,000</td>
    <td>10</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong>State</strong></td>
    <td>string</td>
    <td>Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g., CA, TX, NY). Leave empty for all states</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong>Degree Type</strong></td>
    <td>string</td>
    <td>Filter by predominant degree: Certificate, Associate, Bachelor's, or Graduate</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
</table>

**Example 1:**

```json
{
    "maxItems": 100,
    "state": "CA",
    "degreeType": "bachelor"
}
````

**Example 2:**

```json
{
    "maxItems": 500,
    "state": "NY"
}
```

⚠️ Data comes from the U.S. Department of Education and reflects the most recent academic year available in the College Scorecard database.

***

### 📊 Output

🧾 **Schema:** id, name, city, state, zip, url, ownership, admissionRate, satAverageScore, actMedian, inStateTuition, outOfStateTuition, avgNetPrice, studentSize, completionRate, retentionRate, medianEarnings6Years, medianEarnings10Years, medianDebt, monthlyLoanPayment, studentFacultyRatio, pellGrantRate, federalLoanRate, facultyAvgSalary, endowment, instructionalExpenditure, latitude, longitude, scrapedAt

📦 **Sample 1:**

```json
{
    "id": 110635,
    "name": "University of California-Berkeley",
    "city": "Berkeley",
    "state": "CA",
    "zip": "94720",
    "url": "www.berkeley.edu",
    "ownership": "Public",
    "admissionRate": 0.1139,
    "satAverageScore": 1415,
    "inStateTuition": 14312,
    "outOfStateTuition": 44066,
    "avgNetPrice": 17830,
    "studentSize": 32143,
    "completionRate": 0.9333,
    "medianEarnings10Years": 85800,
    "medianDebt": 14764,
    "studentFacultyRatio": 20,
    "pellGrantRate": 0.3036,
    "latitude": 37.871899,
    "longitude": -122.258538,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

📦 **Sample 2:**

```json
{
    "id": 166027,
    "name": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
    "city": "Cambridge",
    "state": "MA",
    "ownership": "Private nonprofit",
    "admissionRate": 0.0396,
    "satAverageScore": 1535,
    "inStateTuition": 57590,
    "outOfStateTuition": 57590,
    "avgNetPrice": 21816,
    "studentSize": 4530,
    "completionRate": 0.9516,
    "medianEarnings10Years": 124200,
    "medianDebt": 12000,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

📦 **Sample 3:**

```json
{
    "id": 228778,
    "name": "University of Texas at Austin",
    "city": "Austin",
    "state": "TX",
    "ownership": "Public",
    "admissionRate": 0.3103,
    "satAverageScore": 1340,
    "inStateTuition": 11448,
    "outOfStateTuition": 40032,
    "avgNetPrice": 15200,
    "studentSize": 40804,
    "completionRate": 0.8722,
    "medianEarnings10Years": 72000,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

***

### ✨ Why Choose This Tool?

| Feature | Details |
|---------|---------|
| 65+ data fields | Comprehensive coverage of costs, outcomes, demographics, and institutional details |
| 6,000+ schools | Every accredited college and university in the United States |
| Official federal data | Data from the U.S. Department of Education |
| State filtering | Focus on schools in any US state |
| Degree type filtering | Certificate, Associate, Bachelor's, or Graduate |
| Fast collection | Under 1 minute for the entire 6,000+ school dataset |
| Earnings and debt data | Median earnings at 6 and 10 years plus median debt at completion |

***

### 📈 How It Compares

| Capability | This Tool | Other Solutions |
|------------|-----------|-----------------|
| Batch collection | Up to 1,000,000 schools per run | Browse one at a time |
| Data fields | 65+ fields per school | Limited comparison view |
| Structured output | JSON, CSV, Excel | HTML pages only |
| Automated scheduling | Daily/weekly updates | Manual visits |
| Filtering | State and degree type | Basic search only |
| Earnings data | Median at 6 and 10 years | Limited availability |

***

### 🚀 How to Use

1. **Sign Up** - [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) (takes 2 minutes)
2. **Find the Tool** - Search for "College Scorecard Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. **Set Input** - Configure your search filters using the simple form
4. **Run It** - Click "Start" and let it collect your data
5. **Download Data** - Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

***

### 💼 Business Use Cases

| Audience | How They Use It |
|----------|----------------|
| **Students and Parents** | Compare schools by cost, admission rate, graduation rate, and post-graduation earnings to make informed decisions |
| **EdTech Companies** | Build college comparison tools and recommendation engines with real federal data on 6,000+ institutions |
| **Financial Advisors** | Assess school ROI by comparing tuition costs against median earnings and debt levels |
| **Policy Analysts** | Track institutional performance metrics across public and private universities nationwide |

***

***

### ✨ Why choose this Actor

| | Capability |
|---|---|
| 🎯 | **Built for the job.** Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely. |
| 🔖 | **Structured output.** Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines. |
| ⚡ | **Fast.** Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes. |
| 🔁 | **Always fresh.** Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time. |
| 🌐 | **No infra to manage.** Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage. |
| 🛡️ | **Reliable.** Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling. |
| 🚫 | **No code required.** Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK. |

> 📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

***

### 📈 How it compares to alternatives

| Approach | Cost | Coverage | Refresh | Filters | Setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **⭐ College Scorecard Scraper - U.S. Higher Education Data** *(this Actor)* | $5 free credit, then pay-per-use | Full source coverage | **Live per run** | Source-native filters supported | ⚡ 2 min |
| Build your own scraper | Engineering hours | Full once built | Whenever you maintain it | Custom code | 🐢 Days to weeks |
| Paid managed APIs | $$$ monthly | Vendor-defined | Live | Vendor-defined | ⏳ Hours |
| Third-party data dumps | Varies | Subset, often stale | Periodic | None | 🕒 Variable |

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

***

### 🚀 How to use

1. 📝 **Sign up.** [Create a free account with $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 **Open the Actor.** Go to the College Scorecard Scraper - U.S. Higher Education Data page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 **Set input.** Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 **Run it.** Click **Start** and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 **Download.** Grab your results in the **Dataset** tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

> ⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: **3-5 minutes.** No coding required.

***

### 💼 Business use cases

<table>
<tr>
<td width="50%" valign="top">

#### 📊 Data & Analytics

- Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data
- Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records
- Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time
- Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields

</td>
<td width="50%" valign="top">

#### 🏢 Operations & Strategy

- Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts
- Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data
- Power workflows that depend on fresh source records
- Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%" valign="top">

#### 🎯 Marketing & Growth

- Identify market opportunities and trending topics
- Research target audiences and customer personas at scale
- Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records
- Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time

</td>
<td width="50%" valign="top">

#### 🛠️ Engineering & Product

- Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler
- Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor
- Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks
- Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

</td>
</tr>
</table>

***

### 🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

<table>
<tr>
<td width="50%">

#### 🎓 Research and academia

- Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework
- Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots
- Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls
- Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping

</td>
<td width="50%">

#### 🎨 Personal and creative

- Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches
- Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics
- Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters
- Hobbyist collections and personal trackers

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">

#### 🤝 Non-profit and civic

- Transparency reporting and accountability projects
- Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data
- Community-run databases for local issues
- Investigative journalism on public records

</td>
<td width="50%">

#### 🧪 Experimentation

- Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data
- Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend
- Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora
- Test dashboard concepts with live input

</td>
</tr>
</table>

### 🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

- 💬 [**ChatGPT**](https://chat.openai.com/?q=How%20do%20I%20use%20the%20College%20Scorecard%20Scraper%20by%20ParseForge%20on%20Apify%3F%20Show%20me%20input%20examples%2C%20output%20fields%2C%20common%20use%20cases%2C%20and%20how%20to%20integrate%20it%20into%20a%20workflow.)
- 🧠 [**Claude**](https://claude.ai/new?q=How%20do%20I%20use%20the%20College%20Scorecard%20Scraper%20by%20ParseForge%20on%20Apify%3F%20Show%20me%20input%20examples%2C%20output%20fields%2C%20common%20use%20cases%2C%20and%20how%20to%20integrate%20it%20into%20a%20workflow.)
- 🔍 [**Perplexity**](https://perplexity.ai/search?q=How%20do%20I%20use%20the%20College%20Scorecard%20Scraper%20by%20ParseForge%20on%20Apify%3F%20Show%20me%20input%20examples%2C%20output%20fields%2C%20common%20use%20cases%2C%20and%20how%20to%20integrate%20it%20into%20a%20workflow.)
- 🅒 [**Copilot**](https://copilot.microsoft.com/?q=How%20do%20I%20use%20the%20College%20Scorecard%20Scraper%20by%20ParseForge%20on%20Apify%3F%20Show%20me%20input%20examples%2C%20output%20fields%2C%20common%20use%20cases%2C%20and%20how%20to%20integrate%20it%20into%20a%20workflow.)

### ❓ Frequently Asked Questions

<details>
<summary><b>💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?</b></summary>

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes **$5 in free monthly credit**. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. [Create a free Apify account here](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) to get started.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?</b></summary>

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>📏 How many items can I scrape per run?</b></summary>

Free users are limited to **10 items per run** so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to **1,000,000** per run. [Upgrade here](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) if you need full scale.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>🕒 How fresh is the data?</b></summary>

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?</b></summary>

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for [Node.js](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/js) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/python). You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>📤 How do I export the data?</b></summary>

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2) or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?</b></summary>

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

***

</details>

### 🔌 Automating Your Workflow

Schedule this tool to run daily, weekly, or monthly through the Apify platform. Set it and forget it. Your data will be waiting in your dataset every time. Combine with webhooks to trigger downstream actions whenever a run completes.

### 🔌 Integrate with Your Favorite Apps

- [Make](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make) - Build automated workflows
- [Zapier](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier) - Connect 5,000+ apps
- [Slack](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack) - Get instant notifications
- [Airbyte](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/airbyte) - Sync to data warehouses
- [GitHub](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/github) - Version control integration
- [Google Drive](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive) - Export to spreadsheets

***

### 🔌 Integrate with any app

College Scorecard Scraper - U.S. Higher Education Data connects to any cloud service via [Apify integrations](https://apify.com/integrations):

- [**Make**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make) - Automate multi-step workflows
- [**Zapier**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier) - Connect with 5,000+ apps
- [**Slack**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack) - Get run notifications in your channels
- [**Airbyte**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/airbyte) - Pipe results into your warehouse
- [**GitHub**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/github) - Trigger runs from commits and releases
- [**Google Drive**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive) - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

***

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

Looking for more data collection tools? Check out these related actors:

| Actor | Description | Link |
|-------|-------------|------|
| Greatschools Scraper | Extract K-12 school ratings and reviews | [Greatschools Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/greatschools-scraper) |
| Federal Register Scraper | Collect regulatory notices and rules | [Federal Register Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/federal-register-regulatory-notices-rules-scraper) |
| GSA eLibrary Scraper | Government contract data | [GSA eLibrary Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/gsa-elibrary-scraper) |
| FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper | Aircraft registration data | [FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/faa-aircraft-registry-scraper) |
| FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper | Broker registration lookups | [FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/finra-brokercheck-scraper) |

**Pro Tip:** 💡 Browse our complete collection of [data collection actors](https://apify.com/parseforge) to find the perfect tool for your business needs.

***

### 🆘 Need Help?

- Check the FAQ section above for common questions
- Visit the [Apify documentation](https://docs.apify.com) for platform guides
- Contact us at [Tally contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA)

***

> **⚠️ Disclaimer:** This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Department of Education or the College Scorecard. It accesses only publicly available data through official public APIs.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000

## `state` (type: `string`):

Two-letter US state abbreviation to filter results (e.g. CA, TX, NY). Leave empty for all states.

## `degreeType` (type: `string`):

Filter by predominant degree type offered

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `schools` (type: `string`):

Complete dataset with all scraped school records

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Overview of schools with key fields

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 10 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "College Scorecard Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape 6,000+ US colleges and universities from College Scorecard. Get tuition costs, admission rates, graduation rates, post-graduation earnings, demographics, financial aid data, and 65+ fields per school. Filter by state and degree type.",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "ghK3lLVHizvmAmitL"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
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```
