An advising intelligence layer for courses, majors, faculty, and careers.
Open Campus Advisor translates goals like “pre-med,” “AI policy,” or “economics researcher” into grounded academic pathways — using real courses, majors, faculty, and career data across 120+ active US colleges and universities.
120+
Active schools
60 min
Data refresh cycle
35,000+
Faculty profiles
15,000+
Active NIH grants
How it works
Ask naturally
Tell Claude or ChatGPT what you're trying to figure out — a goal, a career, a major, or a school. No search filters, no dropdown menus — just a question.
The graph connects
OCA interprets your goal through an Academic Intent Graph and Major Ontology — resolving 'pre-med' to bounded biology, chemistry, and neuroscience pathways — then traverses live course data, faculty research, degree requirements, and career outcomes across 120+ active schools.
Navigate your path
Get a grounded answer, not a guess. Every result traces back to real institutional data, faculty profiles, NIH grant records, or career outcome data. Ask follow-up questions to go deeper.
Student goals → grounded pathways
Most students don't arrive with a declared major. OCA interprets goal language through an Academic Intent Graph and Major Ontology, mapping it to bounded, explainable academic pathways grounded in real institutional data.
"pre-med"
→ biology · chemistry · neuroscience · public health
"economics researcher"
→ economics · econometrics · statistics / math
"AI policy"
→ CS / data science · public policy / STS
"environmental justice"
→ environmental studies · public policy · sociology / urban studies
Broad questions stay focused. OCA starts with relevant schools, then expands when users need full coverage.
What students ask
Planning & fit
Path & career
Academics
Research
What it knows
Course catalog
Search live course catalogs by topic, department, or instructor across 120+ active schools. Get prerequisites, enrollment data, gen-ed requirements, and first-year seminars — current as of today.
“What can I take as a freshman in the CS department?”
“Which courses fulfill the quantitative reasoning requirement?”
Faculty & research
Find professors by research topic, see their active NIH grants, recent publications with citation counts, and lab opportunities. Compare research strength across top US colleges and universities simultaneously.
“Who at Stanford studies large language models?”
“Which BIOL faculty have active NIH grants?”
Degree requirements
Real major requirements — not approximations. CS, Economics, History, Biology, Political Science, Philosophy, and dozens more, curated from official catalogs and kept current. Covers open curriculum schools, distribution requirements, and core programs.
“What courses do I need for the CS major at Brown?”
“How do MIT and Stanford differ in their CS requirements?”
Academic paths, fit scoring & multi-term planning
Navigate from a career goal backwards to majors, courses, and professors — or forward from a major to see where it leads. Score your academic profile against a school's curriculum to find genuine academic fit (not admissions likelihood). Generate a multi-semester course sequence from your major and completed coursework. Salary ranges, job outlook, and NSF-funded summer research grounded in real data.
“What major and courses lead to climate policy work?”
“Which school's CS curriculum fits my background best?”
“Map out my next 4 semesters as a junior Environmental Studies major.”
AP/IB credit articulation
See exactly which AP and IB exam scores earn credit at specific schools, which requirements they satisfy, and how much of a head start you already have before day one. 30 covered schools including Yale, MIT, Columbia, Brown, Stanford, Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Swarthmore, and Oberlin — partial coverage, expanding.
“I scored 5 on AP Calc BC — what credit does that earn at MIT?”
“How many gen-ed requirements can I skip at Yale with my IB scores?”
Architecture
Built on real academic infrastructure, not generic AI.
Open Campus Advisor connects live course catalogs, faculty research, and career pathways into guidance students can actually use.
Source systems
- REST APIs
- XML feeds
- FOSE catalogs
- Academic bulletins
- OpenAlex
- NIH grant DB
Provider adapters
- 128 implementations
- 7 adapter families
- WAF bypass
- Snapshot cache
- DB-first serving
Graph enrichment
- course → skill
- major → career
- faculty → topic
- 344 curated majors
- 62 careers
Student context
- Academic profile
- Completed courses
- Career targets
- Year + constraints
- Mode 2 B2B
Outputs
- Academic path
- Fit scoring
- AP/IB credit
- Career outcomes
- Research match
Provider ecosystem
Hover a school to see its adapter family.
— hover a school
122
Active schools
128
Provider implementations
344
Curated majors
62
Mapped careers
21
MCP tools
7
Adapter families
For colleges & universities
Connect your campus
Any college or university with a public course catalog can be connected. Students get live course search, faculty research, degree requirements, and career navigation — through Claude or ChatGPT, no new app required.
Every query is logged anonymously. Your institution sees what students are actually exploring — trending topics, popular departments, common career paths.
Bring it to your campus →For platforms
If your platform already owns the student relationship — Scoir, Naviance, College Board, a counseling tool — OCA is the advising intelligence layer. Send a messy student goal; get back a bounded, explainable academic pathway grounded in real institutional data.
Answer the questions your current stack can't:
- ›What academic path fits this student's goal, and which schools should I query?
- ›Which schools are academically strong fits for this student?
- ›How much AP/IB credit head start does this student have?
- ›What should this student take over the next few terms?
POST /api/v1/fit POST /api/v1/credit-articulation POST /api/v1/planSee integration docs →