Where can I find a database of US colleges and the classes they offer? [closed]

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I noticed that http://getchabooks.com has a list of many schools and the classes that they offer. Does anyone know how they get this data? I assume it's through some datab开发者_JS百科ase, but I could be wrong.

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It is most likely through a database. Their database to be precise and I doubt they will let you have access to it.

I found this site which looks pretty legit and offers a CSV or an excel for all accredited Colleges:

http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/GetDownloadFile.aspx

The site does have the disclamer:

The U.S. Department of Education cannot, therefore, guarantee that the information contained in the database is accurate, current, or complete.

You could probably come up with a scraper to glean the rest of the information from publicly available sites but you would have to check into the legality of that.

It's not everything but it's a start. Hope this helps!

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Tons and tons of manual data entry, and/or negotiations with the specific colleges they support. Not all colleges even have their own databases of classes (and most don't have book information online in any consistent format); there's certainly no central college course catalog database out there.