# US College Lookup via Department of Education Scorecard

> US College Lookup via Department of Education Scorecard is a paid API for AI agents from agent402.tools, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Look up US colleges by name to retrieve state, tuition, admission rate, and undergraduate enrollment from live Dept. of Education College Scorecard data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agent402.tools/api/college-lookup
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-college-lookup-via-department-of-education-scorecard-c06f73d6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Dv-hzq7MTvS9W0TnzQg8C

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability us-college-lookup-via-department-of-education-scorecard-c06f73d6
```

Example prompt: Can you look up Stanford University using the College Scorecard data and show me its admission rate, out-of-state tuition, and undergraduate enrollment size — give me up to 3 results in case there are variations of the name?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need factual, government-sourced data about US colleges including tuition, admission rates, and enrollment size. Prefer this over web-scraped or third-party education databases when accuracy and official sourcing matter. Ideal for comparing schools, answering student questions, or enriching college-related workflows with live federal data.

## Known failure modes

- No results found if the college name doesn't match any Scorecard record — try a shorter or partial name
- College Scorecard may lack data for some schools (e.g. very small or unaccredited institutions)
- Limit parameter out of range (must be 1–20) may result in error or default behavior
- Network/API latency from upstream Dept. of Education data source
- Misspelled college names may return zero results

## How this service works

Look up US colleges by name via the Dept. of Education College Scorecard: state, out-of-state tuition, overall admission rate, and undergraduate size. Live gov data. ?name=Stanford&limit=5

## Output

Returns a list of matching colleges (up to the specified limit) with each entry containing the school name, state, in-state tuition, out-of-state tuition, overall admission rate, and undergraduate enrollment size, sourced live from the US Dept. of Education College Scorecard.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "name"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "College name (or part of it) to search"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Max results 1-20 (default 5)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query",
      "count",
      "colleges",
      "source"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "count": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "colleges": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "name": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "state": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "admissionRate": {
          "type": "number"
         },
         "undergraduateSize": {
          "type": "integer"
         },
         "tuitionOutOfStateUsd": {
          "type": "integer"
         }
        }
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 1,
  "query": "Stanford",
  "source": "api.data.gov / collegescorecard (public domain)",
  "colleges": [
   {
    "name": "Stanford University",
    "state": "CA",
    "admissionRate": 0.0361,
    "undergraduateSize": 7554,
    "tuitionOutOfStateUsd": 65910
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-college-lookup-via-department-of-education-scorecard-c06f73d6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agent402.tools](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agent402.tools/llms.txt)