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US College & University Accreditation Verifier
x402
US College & University Accreditation Verifier is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).
Verifies whether a US college or university is legitimately accredited and flags potential diploma mills using weighted signals from authoritative sources.
Price / call$0.02
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Verify a US college or university is accredited and get a diploma-mill verdict. Give one of name, opeid, ipeds or domain plus an optional claimed_accreditor; get back an is_accredited flag, the recognized accreditors, a diploma_mill_flag with weighted signals, operating status, a confidence and cited sources. Deterministic, no LLM.
Output
Returns an is_accredited boolean, a list of recognized accreditors tied to the institution, a diploma_mill_flag with weighted signals explaining the verdict, the school's operating status, a confidence score, and cited authoritative sources — all deterministically computed without LLM inference.
Example use cases
Example prompt
“Can you check whether Ashford University (domain ashford.edu) is actually accredited and tell me if it looks like a diploma mill? Also verify if the 'Accreditation Council for Independent Colleges' is a recognized accreditor.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://api.agentstools.dev/edu/verify?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a deterministic, source-cited accreditation verdict for a US institution — especially for background checks, hiring decisions, admissions screening, or fraud detection involving diploma mills. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, machine-readable output with confidence scores and explicit signal weighting rather than unstructured text.
Side effects
- Institution not found in ED database — returns low confidence or not-found result
- Ambiguous name match when using fuzzy name search — may return wrong institution
- OPEID or IPEDS ID invalid or malformed — returns validation error
- Domain not associated with any known institution — returns unverified result
- Claimed accreditor not found in ED recognized list — returns mismatch flag
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
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