Open Campus Advisor

Live academic data across 101 US colleges and universities — directly inside Claude. Search real course catalogs updated every 60 minutes, find faculty with active NIH grants, compare schools head-to-head on any topic, navigate from a career goal to the exact courses and professors that get you there. 19 tools covering course search, faculty research, degree requirements, career outcomes, and cross-school comparison. Set your student profile once and every subsequent call filters and ranks results automatically completed courses removed, results ranked by your career targets and interests. Used for: choosing between schools, planning a semester, finding a research advisor, verifying prerequisites, mapping a path from "I want to work in climate policy" to the specific courses and funded labs at Yale, Columbia, and MIT that lead there.

How to connect

https://server.smithery.ai/opencampusadvisor/oca/mcp

curl -X POST https://server.smithery.ai/opencampusadvisor/oca/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{}}'