List of universities and schools of the world, database, where to get it?

Question

Database

Hello.

The question is - on the social. networks, like classmates and vkontakte, even before users registered, as I understand it, there was already a list of universities and schools in the world, so that users would not enter (often in different ways), but simply choose from the list.

Where can one get such a list? Maybe someone has it, is there such a database in the public domain?

Googled-googled - didn't google.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Make a request to the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. This information should be publicly available, I think it will be provided to you.

Answer 2

By the way, at the dawn of the development of VKontakte, they did not have any global base, anyone could not only choose, but also drive in their own university.

Answer 3

In general, you can find a lot of things on the Internet:

Answer 4

Parse Facebook?
Although in Russia it is more relevant Contact to parse

Answer 5

For classmates, the data was entered manually. Even when it first appeared, there was quite a bit of everything.

Answer 6

In general, you will create a database, but how will you keep it up to date? But what if a person wants to indicate the university where he studied before, but it no longer exists? Or how to solve the problem with the fact that universities are renamed and merged?
What is your overall task? Or maybe this database is not needed at all, can it just give people the opportunity to enter manually and that's it?

Answer 7

LJ parse, they had.