College Scorecard MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. 169 installs a week from npm. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 18 Oct 2026.
Search, compare, and analyze U.S. college data — costs, earnings, programs, and outcomes.
Installs per day
peak 202 · avg 23 · +94% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history
20 days of history · worst day 98%
20 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
552 ms
Response time
average over 24h
169
Installs / week
npm and PyPI
What changed 6
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 14 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
14 Oct
3 tool descriptions were rewritten
scorecard_compare_schools, scorecard_get_earnings, scorecard_get_programs
14 Oct
2 tools changed the parameters they ask for
scorecard_get_earnings, scorecard_search_programs
14 Oct
a tool changed version
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check College Scorecard MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add college-scorecard-mcp-server --transport http https://college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.college-scorecard-mcp-server]
url = "https://college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"college-scorecard-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"college-scorecard-mcp-server": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 9
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
scorecard
scorecard_compare_schools
Side-by-side comparison of 2–5 schools with ordinal competition ranks within the selected set (ties share a rank). Topics: costs (tuition, net price by income bracket, debt), admissions (acceptance rate, SAT/ACT, enrollment), outcomes (completion, earnings, repayment), aid (Pell grants, federal loans, debt, repayment). Use scorecard_get_school for full profiles.
scorecard_get_earnings
Institution-level earnings of federally aided undergraduate entrants working and not enrolled, regardless of completion. Reports medians at 6/8/10 years after entry, 6/10-year percentiles, and non-male/male 6-year medians. For graduate program earnings use scorecard_get_programs. years selects API data-file start years (1996–2025), including files without earnings observations. Per-metric availability and official cohort/measurement/dollar context accompany values; unknown metadata stays absent. No re-inflation is performed.
scorecard_get_programs
All field-of-study programs at one school with median earnings 1 year after the highest credential, cumulative Stafford/Grad PLUS debt, and IPEDS awards for each year of the pooled debt cohort. Institution-level 6/8/10-year earnings are available via scorecard_get_earnings. Null or absent earnings have unknown cause; suppressed=true requires an explicit provider privacy marker. Use scorecard_lookup_cip to find CIP codes by name.
scorecard_get_school
Institutional profiles for one or more school IDs. Accepts up to 1,000 elements, deduplicates normalized IDs, serves the first 100 distinct IDs, and reports missing and unprocessed IDs separately. Use scorecard_compare_schools for comparisons. Custom fields return requested paths and their JSON values in selected_fields, absent paths in absent_fields, and real identity; default profiles include costs, admissions, outcomes, aid, and completion rates.
scorecard_list_fields
Search the College Scorecard field catalog by keyword. Returns matching field paths, descriptions, data types, and whether each field supports API-side sorting. Use before passing custom field paths to the fields parameter on scorecard_get_school to find a supported path. Served entirely from embedded static data — no API call, no rate limit impact.
scorecard_lookup_cip
Search the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) taxonomy by keyword or partial name. Returns matching CIP codes with standard titles. Use this before passing cip_code filters to scorecard_search_programs or scorecard_get_programs when you know a program by name but not its code. Served entirely from embedded static data — no API call, no rate limit impact.
scorecard_search_programs
Find programs by CIP code across institutions, ranked by median earnings within the fetched school page. Accepts school-side filters (state, ownership, max cost). Minimum earnings is applied locally; totals and pagination count schools before local program filtering. Use scorecard_lookup_cip to convert program names to CIP codes. Returns school names and IDs alongside program earnings, cumulative Stafford/Grad PLUS debt, and IPEDS awards for follow-up calls to scorecard_get_school or scorecard_get_programs.
scorecard_search_schools
Search and filter U.S. colleges and universities by name, location, type, size, and acceptance rate. Returns core identity and cost metrics. Use scorecard_get_school for profiles or scorecard_search_programs for program rankings. Geographic distance requires a U.S. ZIP; ZIP alone uses the provider default radius. State accepts comma-separated two-letter codes (e.g. WA,CA). Ownership: 1=public, 2=private nonprofit, 3=for-profit. Degree level: 0=non-degree, 1=certificate, 2=associate, 3=bachelor, 4=graduate.
scorecard_value_analysis
Analyze costs, debt, repayment progress, and earnings for one school. Returns debt-to-earnings and net-price-to-annual-earnings ratios alongside the source figures. family_income selects the applicable net-price bracket. Repayment progress is the share of borrowers paying down principal 3 years after entering repayment.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 219 ms | 2 min ago |
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College Scorecard MCP Server — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can College Scorecard MCP Server do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: scorecard_compare_schools, scorecard_get_earnings, scorecard_get_programs, scorecard_get_school, scorecard_list_fields, scorecard_lookup_cip and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is College Scorecard MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 552 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect College Scorecard MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does College Scorecard MCP Server need an API key?
No. College Scorecard MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is College Scorecard MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 552 ms on average, which is faster than 21% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use College Scorecard MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/college-scorecard-mcp-server was installed 169 times in the last week. Week over week that is +94%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is College Scorecard MCP Server open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 1 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.