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.

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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

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