The UCF Search Service is a publicly available web service that allows queries to made against various UCF data. Results from the Search Service are returned as JSON.
Degree Program Data
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Data Sources
Data included in the UCF Search Service is aggregated from multiple sources, listed below:
- Degree program data
- General program information and metadata is sourced from UCF's Academic Program Inventory Master (APIM), managed by IKM.
- Catalog descriptions and links are sourced from the online UCF Catalog.
- Tuition data is sourced from Student Account Services.
- Program outcomes/statistics are sourced from IKM.
- Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code lists, titles and descriptions, as well as mappings of CIPs to Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes, are sourced from IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System).
- Employment projection data and careers are sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Data is pulled from these sources on a regular basis, depending on the type of data. Program metadata and catalog information is retrieved monthly.
Contact
The UCF Search Service is managed by UCF Web Communications.
For general questions about the Search Service, please email webcom@ucf.edu.
If you'd like to submit a bug report (e.g. an API view not loading properly, or params not working as expected), please submit a new issue in Github detailing the problem, how you encountered the problem, and expected behavior.
Reporting Inaccurate/Missing Data
Before contacting UCF Web Communications to report problems with data in the Search Service, please verify that said data is accurate at its source (see "Data Sources" above.)
If data is inaccurate in any of those sources, please contact the owners of those resources to resolve the issue.
If you've determined that the data problem is specific to the Search Service, please email webcom@ucf.edu detailing the problem.