College Scorecard

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College Scorecard MCP — US Department of Education College Scorecard API

2 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

search_schools

Search US colleges and universities by name. Returns school name, location, tuition, admission rate, student size, median earnings, and completion rate. Example: search_schools("MIT", "MA").

No parameters required.

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get_school

Get detailed info for a specific college by its College Scorecard ID. Returns tuition, admission rate, student size, median earnings after 10 years, completion rate, and median debt.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/college-scorecard/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/college-scorecard/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_schools","arguments":{}}}'