Database for US Universities and Colleges [closed]

Question

Not sure if this is the proper place to post this question, but I've seen questions regarding ISBN databases, so I thought it would be appropriate.

In my website, I intend allow my users to choose between all the US college/universities (community or 4 year institutes). I would then store their selection in a database.

At first I thought about allowing them to input the name themselves, but saw some issues with that. I tried to look for a database of some sort, but all I found were search engines to find a specific university.

I was hoping to find a database can I export to my own database (SQL Server) and have users search my own database.

Has anyone come across this issue and found a reasonable solution?

Answer 1

This is an old question, but I wanted to post the answer for those who find this page.

This should do the trick: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/GetDownloadFile.aspx

It's a csv and xls file of all the accredited universities in the US. It's about 22,800 rows and narrowing it uniquely by name brings it down to about 9,000.

Enjoy!