# Hipo/university-domains-list

University Domains and Names Data List & API

Repository: https://github.com/Hipo/university-domains-list
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/university-domains-list
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-24T19:10:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4333, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1649, forks 547 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:16.714685+00:00)

## What it is
A curated JSON dataset of world universities with their domain names, countries, and web pages, plus a small Python tooling layer and a free hosted search API. It is primarily a data source for email domain validation and inferring a user's country or university from their email address.

## Use cases
- validate that a signup email belongs to a university domain
- infer a user's country and university from their email address
- search universities by name or country in an app
- build a custom autocomplete of universities for a form
- filter the dataset to a subset of countries for a smaller payload
- self-host a REST API serving university data

## When to choose
- you need an open, community-maintained list of university domains and names
- you want to gate signups to academic email addresses
- you need to enrich user profiles with country/university derived from email
- you want a free hosted API for quick prototypes

## When to avoid
- you need department-level subdomains for strict email validation (only root domains are listed)
- you need guaranteed real-time accuracy of university data
- you need non-academic institution domains
- you require SLA-backed API availability for large production traffic (self-host instead)

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, data-generation
- domain: education, data-science, apis
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: university-domains, email-validation, -dataset, open-data, rest-api, web-server

## Member repositories
- Hipo/university-domains-list (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.714685+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:45:07.076666+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Hipo/university-domains-list (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.714685+00:00, sha 18e75f0ad09c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.