🎓 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.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-16

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

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📋 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.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
List Type	Select	Choose from 13 ranking lists: Best Colleges, Top Public Universities, Best Value Colleges, Best K-12 Schools, Best School Districts, Most Diverse Schools, Best Teachers Schools, Best College Prep, Largest Schools, Best STEM, Best Arts, Best Sports, Standout Schools
Max Items	Number	Free users: Limited to 10 items. Paid users: up to 1,000,000

Example 1: Top colleges

{
  "listType": "best-colleges",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2: Best STEM schools

{
  "listType": "best-for-stem-schools",
  "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ 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.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema

Emoji	Field	Type	Description
🖼️	imageUrl	String	School or college profile image
🏆	rank	Number	Ranking position
🏫	name	String	Institution name
🔗	url	String	Niche profile page URL
📍	city	String	City location
🗺️	state	String	State abbreviation
🌐	latitude	Number	GPS latitude coordinate
🌐	longitude	Number	GPS longitude coordinate
🅰️	nicheGrade	String	Overall Niche grade (A+ to F)
🎓	acceptRate	String	Acceptance rate percentage
💰	netPrice	String	Net price after financial aid
📊	satRange	String	SAT composite score range
👥	totalStudents	String	Total enrolled students
👨‍🏫	studentTeacherRatio	String	Student-to-teacher ratio
⭐	featuredReviewRating	Number	Featured review star rating
💬	featuredReview	String	Featured review text
📅	scrapedAt	String	Timestamp when data was collected
⚠️	error	String	Error message if extraction failed

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✨ Why choose Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper

Feature	Details
🏆 13 ranking lists	Best colleges, public universities, K-12 schools, STEM, arts, sports, and more
🅰️ Niche grades	Overall grades from A+ to F for every institution
🎓 Admissions data	Acceptance rates and SAT composite ranges for colleges
💰 Cost data	Net price after financial aid for true cost comparison
📍 GPS coordinates	Latitude and longitude for geographic mapping and analysis
⭐ Featured reviews	Review text and ratings for qualitative insights
📦 Multiple exports	Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel

📊 20+ data fields per institution covering grades, admissions, cost, and location

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares

Feature	Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper	Other Tools
13 ranking list types	Yes	Usually one
Niche grades (A+ to F)	Yes	No
Acceptance rate + SAT range	Yes	Sometimes
Net price after aid	Yes	Rarely
GPS coordinates	Yes	No
Featured reviews	Yes	No
K-12 and college support	Yes	Usually one
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel	Varies

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🚀 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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💼 Business use cases

🎓 Students and Parents Compare colleges by grade, cost, acceptance rate, SAT range, and student reviews to make informed enrollment decisions	📊 Education Researchers Analyze education quality trends across states, compare public vs private school performance, and study regional disparities
🏢 EdTech Companies Build school comparison tools, recommendation engines, and ranking dashboards with structured Niche data	📈 Marketing Agencies Target schools by ranking, location, and student body size for education-focused marketing campaigns

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper?

Yes. Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating with code

Node.js example:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/niche-schools-scraper").call({
  listType: "best-colleges",
  maxItems: 100
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python example:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("parseforge/niche-schools-scraper").call(run_input={
    "listType": "best-colleges",
    "maxItems": 100
})
items = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
print(items)

See the Apify API docs for more integration options.

🔌 Integrate with your tools

• Make - Automate education data workflows
• Zapier - Sync school data to your tools
• GitHub - Version control integration
• Slack - Get notifications when runs complete
• Airbyte - Data pipeline integration
• Google Drive - Export directly to spreadsheets

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Niche Schools & Colleges Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

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Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Niche.com. It accesses only publicly available data.