# College Scorecard Muse connector

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## College Scorecard

Search and compare U.S. colleges by costs, earnings, programs, and student outcomes.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/college-scorecard-3
- Category: Research & Data
- Developer: cyanheads
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 341ms, checked 2026-10-29T12:46:17Z
- Endpoint: https://college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-10-29T05:36:27Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (io.github.cyanheads/college-scorecard-mcp-server) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=io.github.cyanheads%2Fcollege-scorecard-mcp-server

Access official U.S. college data including tuition, net price, graduation rates, post-graduation earnings by program, student debt, and admissions metrics. Compare schools side-by-side and analyze return on investment.

Example request: "Show me computer science programs at public universities in California with median earnings over $60,000 and compare their costs."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use College Scorecard to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- 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 
- 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 
- 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
- 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
- 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 
- 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.
- 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 scorecar
- 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 
- 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 pr

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 350ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (college-scorecard.caseyjhand.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: pass (No malicious-package advisories)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (9 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (No redirects off the domain)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)