🎓 Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper

🚀 Scrape school and college rankings from Niche.com. Get Niche grades, acceptance rates, net price, SAT ranges, student counts, and featured reviews. Supports 13 ranking lists including best colleges, public universities, and K-12 schools.

Collect school and college ranking data from Niche.com without coding. Extract rank positions, Niche overall grades, acceptance rates, net prices, SAT composite ranges, student counts, student-teacher ratios, locations, and featured reviews from 13 different ranking lists.

Whether you are a student comparing colleges, an education researcher analyzing institution quality across regions, an EdTech company building comparison tools, or a marketing agency targeting schools by ranking, this tool delivers structured ranking data ready for spreadsheets, dashboards, or database analysis.

Target	Niche.com - school and college rankings
Use Cases	College comparison, education research, EdTech data sourcing, school marketing, policy analysis

📋 What it does

• 🏆 Extracts rank position and Niche overall grade (A+ through F) for every school and college
• 🎓 Collects acceptance rate and SAT composite range for college admissions analysis
• 💰 Returns net price after financial aid to compare true cost of attendance
• 👥 Captures total student count and student-teacher ratio for school size comparisons
• 📍 Includes city, state, latitude, and longitude for geographic mapping and analysis
• ⭐ Extracts featured review text and rating for qualitative insights on each institution

The scraper supports 13 ranking lists covering colleges, public universities, K-12 schools, school districts, STEM programs, arts programs, and more. Each record includes 20+ structured fields.

💡 Why it matters: Niche.com is one of the most widely used school ranking platforms. Manually copying data from ranking pages is slow and error-prone. This scraper automates bulk collection across all ranking lists so you can build comparison databases, analyze trends, and make data-driven decisions.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abbreviation, acceptRate, ceeb, character, city, featuredReview, featuredReviewRating, guid, imageUrl, ipeds, latitude, longitude, name, netPrice, nicheGrade, nicheGradeValue, rank, reviewAverage, satRange, scrapedAt, state, stateCode, type, url, virtualTour. All 25 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are limited to 10 results per run. K-12 ranking lists include all school types (public, private, charter). Residential proxies are included in the default configuration.

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up - Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the tool - Search for "Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Choose ranking list - Select from 13 available list types
4. Run it - Click "Start" and wait for results
5. Export data - Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or connect to Google Sheets

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