The US Department of Education's College Scorecard API at https://api.data.gov/ed/collegescorecard/v1 covers every US college: size, cost, admission rate, and graduate earnings. Fields use dotted names.
Uses api.data.gov keys, passed as api_key. DEMO_KEY works for trying it.
Full reference: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api-documentation/
curl "https://api.data.gov/ed/collegescorecard/v1/schools?school.name=stanford&fields=school.name,school.city,latest.student.size,latest.admissions.admission_rate.overall&api_key=DEMO_KEY"{
"metadata": {
"page": 0,
"total": 1,
"per_page": 20
},
"results": [
{
"latest.student.size": 7554,
"latest.admissions.admission_rate.overall": 0.0361,
"school.name": "Stanford University",
"school.city": "Stanford"
}
]
}