Fields of Study1,305 concepts

Fields of Study

Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes — a taxonomic coding scheme maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for classifying academic programs and fields of study. Used to describe what degrees and credentials a person holds.

For AI Agents & Language Models

Agent Instructions
This vocabulary classifies academic fields of study using the federal CIP taxonomy. Use the concept URI to describe what a person studied (e.g., as part of an education credential node). The CIP code appears in the notation field. Search with ?q= for substring matching on program names. Each concept is typed schema:DefinedTerm.
Search this vocabulary
GET /vocabularies/cip-codes?q=search+term
Retrieve a single concept
GET /vocabularies/cip-codes/{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

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