Educational Institutions1,491 concepts

Educational Institutions

A directory of accredited postsecondary educational institutions in the United States, sourced from the IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) database maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Each institution includes its official name, IPEDS UNITID, OPEID identifiers, physical location, accrediting body, geographic coordinates, and official website.

For AI Agents & Language Models

Agent Instructions
This vocabulary provides authoritative reference data for educational institutions. Use the concept URI as the object of schema:alumniOf or schema:affiliation on person entity nodes. Each concept is typed schema:EducationalOrganization with structured address, geo, and identifier data. The IPEDS UNITID (in the concept's local ID and notation field) is the canonical federal identifier. Search with ?q= for substring matching on institution names. Individual concepts dereference to full institution profiles at /vocabularies/institutions/{UNITID}.
Search this vocabulary
GET /vocabularies/institutions?q=search+term
Retrieve a single concept
GET /vocabularies/institutions/{conceptId}
Content negotiation
Accept: application/ld+json → JSON-LD (SKOS + schema.org) Accept: text/turtle → Turtle/RDF Accept: text/html → This page ?format=jsonld|turtle|rdfxml|n3 → Override via query param

Concepts — A (72 of 1,491)

A T Still University of Health Sciences 177834 Aaniiih Nakoda College 180203 Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College 138558 Academy College 172866 Adams State University 126182 Adelphi University 188429 Adler University 142832 Adrian College 168528 AdventHealth University 133872 Agnes Scott College 138600 Alabama A & M University 100654 Alabama State University 100724 Alaska Bible College 102580 Alaska Career College 103501 Alaska Pacific University 102669 Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences 188526 Albany Medical College 188580 Albany State University 138716 Albertus Magnus College 128498 Albion College 168546 Albizu University-Miami 132842 Alcorn State University 175342 Alfred University 188641 Alice Lloyd College Allan Hancock College 108807 Allegany College of Maryland 161688 Allegheny Wesleyan College 200873 Allen College 152798 Alliant International University-San Diego 110468 Alma College 168591 American Career College-Los Angeles 109040 American International College 164447 American Islamic College 142957 American Jewish University 116846 American National University-Pikeville 157021 American River College 109208 American University 131159 Amherst College 164465 Amridge University 100690 Anderson University 150066 Andrew College 138761 Andrews University 168740 Anna Maria College 164492 Appalachian State University 197869 Aquinas College 168786 Arizona Christian University 105899 Arizona State University Campus Immersion 104151 Arizona Western College 104160 Arkansas Baptist College 106306 Arkansas Northeastern College 107327 Arkansas State University 106458 Arkansas State University Mid-South 107318 Arkansas State University Three Rivers 107521 Arkansas State University-Beebe 106449 Arkansas Tech University 106467 Art Center College of Design Asbury University 156213 Ashford University 154022 Ashland University 201104 Assumption College for Sisters 183600 Assumption University 164562 Athens State University 100812 Auburn University 100858 Auburn University at Montgomery 100830 Augsburg University 173045 Augustana College 143084 Aultman College of Nursing and Health Sciences 201177 Aurora University 143118 Avery James College 158778 Avila University 176628 Ayers Career College 158246 Azusa Pacific University 109785

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