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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 — V (12 of 1,491)
Valdosta State University
141264
Valencia College
138187
Valley City State University
200572
Valparaiso University
152600
VanderCook College of Music
149639
Vanguard University of Southern California
123651
Vassar College
197133
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
188340
Ventura College
125028
Victor Valley College
125091
Villa Maria College
197142
Vincennes University
152637