Trust & transparency
Data quality & sources
Degree Globe is assembled from open, reusable data sources — never bulk-copied from copyrighted databases. Every institution carries provenance: where each fact came from, and when it was last built. When we don't have a fact, we say so rather than inventing one.
10,137
Institutions
200
Countries
13
Indexable profiles
2026-08-27
Last built
Data depth: Levels A, B and C
Not every institution has the same depth. We label each one honestly. Today: 13 full, 0 standard, 10,124 directory. Depth increases automatically as more open sources are ingested.
Full profile
Programs, tuition, admissions, deadlines, scholarships and research where available. Indexed for search engines.
Standard profile
Verified identity, location, type, founding and research fields. Indexed once enough fields are present.
Directory listing
Real institution name, country and official website from open datasets. Crawlable but noindex until it gains depth — we never present a thin page as more than it is.
Where the data comes from
| Source | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Hipolabs university-domains-list ↗ | Open community dataset (GitHub) | Institution name, country, official domain |
| Wikidata ↗ | CC0 (public domain) | City, coordinates, founding year, type, aliases, external IDs |
| Research Organization Registry (ROR) ↗ | CC0 (public domain) | Canonical identity, aliases, Wikidata links |
| OpenAlex ↗ | CC0 (public domain) | Research fields and scholarly counts (not rankings) |
| US College Scorecard / IPEDS ↗ | US public domain | US control, tuition, admissions |
Sources currently contributing to the live build: seed, hipolabs. Additional sources run in scheduled jobs and expand coverage over time.
How institutions are verified & deduplicated
- 1. Records from every source are normalized to a common schema (folded names, canonical domains, ISO country codes).
- 2. The same institution across sources is resolved deterministically: external IDs (Wikidata, ROR, IPEDS) first, then official domain, then normalized name + country.
- 3. Ambiguous matches — like identical names in different countries — are never merged blindly; they go to a review queue (0 pending).
- 4. Each field keeps its own provenance: source, retrieval date and confidence. The strongest source wins per field.
Current quality snapshot
0.1%
Have coordinates
0
Missing website
0
Need review
8
Regions covered
See something wrong?
We'd rather fix it than leave it. Every university profile has a “Report incorrect information” link, or use the form directly. No account needed.
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