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University course syllabi, parsed into structured fields

About 76,000 course syllabi from about 3,900 colleges and universities, parsed into course, level, term, department, textbooks and weekly topics, with a link to each source.

Coverage: About 76,000 syllabi from about 3,900 institutions, gathered from public course pages. Most institutions are in the United States, with some abroad. Course years run from the 1990s to 2026, most of them 2004 or later.

Why this data is different

Syllabi are posted one at a time on thousands of separate course pages, as PDF, Word and web pages, each laid out differently. This set gathers them in one place, checks that each document really is a syllabus, and puts every one into the same fields.

How it is collected

  1. 1

    Syllabi are gathered from public university course pages and syllabus repositories.

  2. 2

    Each document is checked to confirm it is a syllabus, then parsed into course, level, term, department, textbooks, weekly topics and the software it names.

  3. 3

    Instructor names and contact details are removed before delivery. Every row keeps its source URL.

What is in each record

FieldNotes
syllabus_id, source_url
universityAs written on the syllabus
course_name, course_code
levelUndergraduate, graduate, MBA or PhD, where stated
year, semesterWhere stated
department, discipline
textbooksTitle, author, ISBN, edition and whether it is required
topicsOne row per week: week number and topic
software_toolsSoftware the course names

Who uses it

  • Edtech and courseware companies
  • Textbook publishers and course-materials teams
  • Higher-education researchers

Pricing

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No personal contact data is collected or sold in any QuestionPunk dataset.

Questions

Does the data include instructor names or contact details?
No. Instructor names are stripped before delivery. The unit of analysis is the course, not the person.
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