🎓 College Scorecard Scraper - U.S. Higher Education Data

Pull structured records from College Scorecard — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/college-scorecard-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: maxItems (integer, default 10), state (string), degreeType (string). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~college-scorecard-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

🚀 Collect comprehensive data on 6,000+ U.S. colleges and universities from the Department of Education. Get tuition costs, admission rates, graduation rates, post-graduation earnings, demographics, financial aid, and institutional details.

Whether you are a student comparing universities, a researcher analyzing higher education trends, or a consultant building college recommendation tools, this scraper delivers comprehensive data from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.

The College Scorecard Scraper provides 65+ data fields per school including tuition costs, admission rates, SAT/ACT scores, completion rates, median earnings at 6 and 10 years after enrollment, student demographics, financial aid statistics, and institutional details. Filter by state and degree type.

Target Audience	Students and parents, higher education researchers, EdTech companies, financial advisors, policy analysts, recruiters
Primary Use Cases	College comparison, ROI analysis, recommendation engines, enrollment trend research, financial aid analysis, school performance tracking

📋 What Does It Do

• Collects school profiles with names, locations, accreditors, ownership type, and degree levels
• Extracts in-state and out-of-state tuition, average net price, and cost of attendance
• Gets admission rates, completion rates, retention rates, and SAT/ACT scores
• Includes median earnings at 6 and 10 years after enrollment, median debt, and monthly loan payments
• Provides student body size, gender breakdown, racial/ethnic composition, and first-generation stats
• Delivers faculty salary, student-faculty ratio, endowment, and instructional expenditure data

🎬 How to Use - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon.

🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Tool - Search for "College Scorecard Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Configure your search filters using the simple form
4. Run It - Click "Start" and let it collect your data
5. Download Data - Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: accreditor, address, carnegieBasic, carnegieSizeSetting, city, id, locale, name, ownership, priceCalculatorUrl, regionId, schools, state, url, zip. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the College Scorecard Scraper - U.S. Higher Education Data page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

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