Evidence-backed facts
- The College Scorecard API exposes institution and field-of-study data for documented school, admissions, cost, completion, earnings, and related variables. informative
- Sustained access uses a data.gov API key, which is a credential and must remain outside public resource files and client-visible output. informative
- Clients must bind data version, selected fields, school or program filters, sort order, page, and per-page size and inspect metadata for pagination and variable definitions. informative
- Scorecard data can be suppressed, modeled, cohort-specific, lagged, or revised and does not prove institutional quality, admission, affordability, employment, or individual outcomes. informative