U.S. college ROI data: 30-yr NPV for 500 colleges, lifetime ROI for 134 majors. Keyless.
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. College MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. U.S. college ROI data: 30-yr NPV for 500 colleges, lifetime ROI for 134 majors. Keyless.
MCP server for U.S. college-ROI data: 30-year net present value (NPV) for 500 four-year colleges, lifetime ROI for 19 major categories + 115 CIP subfields, per-state best-value rankings, and the out-of-state tuition penalty ranking.
The server publishes 7 tools. What each one is for:
list_majors — Compact ROI rows for 19 categories / 115 subfields — median & mean lifetime ROI, % never break even, break-even age, AI-exposure band. Filter byget_major — Full record for one major: ROI distribution (p25/median/mean/p75), completion-adjusted & dropout ROI, graduates/programs, AI-exposure detailsearch_colleges — Search the 500 positive-NPV-envelope colleges by name/state/control — resident & non-resident 30-yr NPV, cost of attendance, median earningsget_college — Full record for one college, incl. IPEDS unitid and FREOPP coveragebest_value_colleges — Each state's best-value four-years at resident pricing (top 15 per state), or a nationwide top-pick summaryout_of_state_penalty — Public four-years ranked by how much 30-yr NPV a non-resident gives up vs a residentget_api_info — Metadata for the underlying API: endpoints, license, DOI, attributionInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at college-roi-mcp on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. College's toolset — list_majors, get_major, search_colleges and 4 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by com.le-teen; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against College's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| list_majors | Compact ROI rows for 19 categories / 115 subfields — median & mean lifetime ROI, % never break even, break-even age, AI-exposure band. Filter by kind/parent, sort, limit. |
| get_major | Full record for one major: ROI distribution (p25/median/mean/p75), completion-adjusted & dropout ROI, graduates/programs, AI-exposure detail. |
| search_colleges | Search the 500 positive-NPV-envelope colleges by name/state/control — resident & non-resident 30-yr NPV, cost of attendance, median earnings, break-even age. |
| get_college | Full record for one college, incl. IPEDS unitid and FREOPP coverage. |
| best_value_colleges | Each state's best-value four-years at resident pricing (top 15 per state), or a nationwide top-pick summary. |
| out_of_state_penalty | Public four-years ranked by how much 30-yr NPV a non-resident gives up vs a resident. |
| get_api_info | Metadata for the underlying API: endpoints, license, DOI, attribution. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"college-roi": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "college-roi-mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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