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College Scorecard MCP Server

com.olyport/college-scorecard
answering

College Scorecard is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Higher education data: tuition, graduation rates, and earnings

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
548 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 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add college-scorecard --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/college-scorecard/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "college-scorecard": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/college-scorecard/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.college-scorecard]
url = "https://mcp.olyport.com/college-scorecard/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "college-scorecard": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/college-scorecard/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "college-scorecard": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/college-scorecard/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

compare
compare_schools
Compare multiple colleges or universities side by side. Returns key metrics for each school including tuition, admission rate, median earnings, debt, and completion rate for easy comparison. Args: school_ids: Comma-separated list of College Scorecard school IDs (e.g. '166027,166683,243780'). Use search_schools to find IDs.
field
get_field_of_study
Get earnings and debt data by field of study from the College Scorecard. Returns median earnings and median debt for graduates of specific academic programs. Can be filtered by school, by field name, or both. Args: school_id: College Scorecard school ID to see field-level data for one school. field: Field of study name or keyword to search across schools (e.g. 'Computer Science', 'Nursing', 'Business').
school
get_school_detail
Get detailed data for a specific college or university. Returns comprehensive information including costs, admissions, demographics, earnings outcomes, financial aid, debt levels, and completion rates. Use school IDs from search_schools results. Args: school_id: The College Scorecard school ID (integer). Find IDs via search_schools.
schools
search_schools
Search colleges and universities in the College Scorecard database. Returns matching schools with basic info: name, location, size, tuition, admission rate, median earnings, and completion rate. Args: name: Full or partial school name to search (e.g. 'Harvard', 'community college'). state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'CA', 'NY') to filter by state. zip_code: Five-digit ZIP code for location-based search. Use with distance parameter. distance: Search radius in miles from zip_code. Only used when zip_code is provided. degree_type: Filter by predominant degree type: '1' (certificate), '2' (associate), '3' (bachelor), '4' (graduate). Omit for all types. limit: Maximum number of schools to return (default 25, max 100).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.olyport.com/college-scorecard/mcp streamable-http answering 519 ms 5 min ago

College Scorecard — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can College Scorecard do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_schools, get_field_of_study, get_school_detail, search_schools. 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 College Scorecard working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 548 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect College Scorecard?
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 College Scorecard need an API key?
No. College Scorecard completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is College Scorecard?
It answers our handshake in 548 ms on average, which is faster than 19% 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.