# Global University, Hospital & Research Institute Leads (`zinjaink/global-university-and-research-institute-leads`) Actor

Extract 108,000+ universities, colleges, teaching hospitals, research institutes, and R\&D centers worldwide with verified website domains, location, established year, and institution type.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zinjaink/global-university-and-research-institute-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Daniel Thairu](https://apify.com/zinjaink) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 institutional lead extracteds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Global University, Hospital & Research Institute Leads (ROR v2 + Domains)

Extract verified **Universities, Colleges (`.edu`), Teaching Hospitals, Specialized Research Institutes, Foundations, and Corporate R\&D Centers** worldwide from the official **Research Organization Registry (ROR v2)** in under 1 second over plain HTTP (`256 MB` RAM).

### Key B2B Use Cases

1. **EdTech & Campus Software Sales (`organizationType: "education"`):**
   - Extract accredited universities and colleges with their exact `.edu` domain (`websiteDomain`), location, and founding year.
2. **Healthcare & Academic Medical Center Outreach (`organizationType: "healthcare"`):**
   - Target teaching hospitals, academic medical centers, and clinical research networks.
3. **Lab Equipment, Scientific SaaS & Grant Consulting (`organizationType: "facility"` / `"nonprofit"`):**
   - Identify specialized laboratories, national research facilities, and grant-making foundations with verified Crossref Funder IDs (`funderId`).
4. **Direct Chaining with `zinjaink/b2b-company-enricher`:**
   - Every record outputs a normalized `websiteDomain` and `websiteUrl` ready to pipe straight into `zinjaink/b2b-company-enricher` to extract institutional emails, phone numbers, social profiles, and web technology stacks.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Keyword to search institutions by name, city, state, or research focus (e.g., 'California', 'Texas', 'Medical Center', 'Institute of Technology', 'London').

## `organizationType` (type: `string`):

Filter by ROR v2 organization category: Education (Universities/Colleges), Healthcare (Teaching Hospitals/Medical Centers), Facility (Labs/Research Centers), Nonprofit, Company (Corporate R\&D), or Government.

## `countryCode` (type: `string`):

Filter by 2-letter country code (e.g., 'US', 'GB', 'CA', 'DE', 'AU'). Leave empty for global results.

## `requireWebsite` (type: `boolean`):

Only return institutions with a verified website URL/domain ready for domain enrichment.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of institutional leads to return (Free users preview up to 25 leads; paying users unlock up to 10,000 leads per run).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "University Texas",
  "organizationType": "education",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "requireWebsite": true,
  "maxItems": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `leads` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQuery": "University Texas",
    "countryCode": "US"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("zinjaink/global-university-and-research-institute-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQuery": "University Texas",
    "countryCode": "US",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("zinjaink/global-university-and-research-institute-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQuery": "University Texas",
  "countryCode": "US"
}' |
apify call zinjaink/global-university-and-research-institute-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,zinjaink/global-university-and-research-institute-leads"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/n67VfLaUMQK2lulzI/builds/wf1ggqyLVcsNQnp2S/openapi.json