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Education Data MCP Server

co.brightkey/education-data
not responding

Education Data is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 8 tools.

Bilingual (EN+ZH) education data: 299 universities, 234 intl schools, degree-ROI, sourced answers.

Uptime history 42 hours of history · worst hour 0%
42 hours agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
193 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add education-data --transport http https://brightkey.co/api/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "education-data": {
      "url": "https://brightkey.co/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.education-data]
url = "https://brightkey.co/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "education-data": {
      "url": "https://brightkey.co/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "education-data": {
      "url": "https://brightkey.co/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

answer
answer_education_question
Search BrightKey's cited answers to common international-education questions (curriculum, schools, universities, visas, process). Returns the best-match sourced answer.
compare
compare_universities
Compare 2 universities on BrightKey's 6 dimensions. Returns per-dimension tier deltas + a sourced tier-delta paragraph (tiers, not a single rank).
degree
degree_roi
5-year-after-graduation net ROI + break-even year for a degree. Pass a preset country slug (e.g. germany, uk-oxbridge, us-private) or 'all' for the ranked list.
fetch
fetch
Fetch full content for an id returned by search (uni:<slug>, school:<city>/<slug>, answer:<slug>).
match
match_schools
List BrightKey-profiled international schools, filtered by city and/or curriculum (e.g. IB, A-Levels, AP). Returns name, curricula, fees, inspection rating, tiers.
search
search
Search across universities, schools, and answers. Returns {id, title, url} results; pass an id to fetch().
universities
list_universities
List BrightKey-profiled universities with optional filters. Returns slug, name, country, city, 6-dimension S/A/B/C/D tiers, and verdict.
university
get_university_profile
Full BrightKey profile for one university by slug: tier ratings + why, verdict, strengths/weaknesses, cost estimate, admissions tips. Bilingual.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://brightkey.co/api/mcp streamable-http answering 193 ms 12 min ago

Education Data — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Education Data do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: answer_education_question, compare_universities, degree_roi, fetch, get_university_profile, list_universities and 2 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Education Data working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 193 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Education Data as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Education Data?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Education Data need an API key?
No. Education Data completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.