Where our data comes from
The three-layer data architecture behind MyUniCompass:
- Verified — official sources. Government and university records (IPEDS, NIRF and more) are the ground truth.
- AI-researched — cited, not verified. Real-time research with the source linked so you can check it.
- AI-generated — always labeled, never disguised. Estimates are marked as estimates.
Every number on the platform shows which layer it came from.
Why we publish this at all
Most admissions products present every figure in the same typeface and let you assume they are equally solid. They are not. An acceptance rate filed with a government is a different kind of fact from a number a language model produced, and a family making a decision worth several lakh rupees is entitled to know which one they are reading. So each figure carries its layer, and you can see it without asking.
The official sources we use
For United States institutions, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard, both run by the US Department of Education, plus the Common Data Set that universities publish themselves. For India, the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) and the institutions' own admission notifications. For the United Kingdom, UCAS and the universities' published entry requirements. Where a country's regulator publishes its own figures, we take them from the regulator rather than from an aggregator.
What we will not do
We do not publish a number we cannot attribute. Where a university has no verified figure for something, the page says we do not have it instead of estimating and hoping. We do not take deep links from scholarship aggregators without checking the funder's own page first, because aggregators routinely list awards that no longer exist. And no university pays to appear, to rank higher, or to be recommended — there is no sponsored placement anywhere on this platform, and there never has been.
How current any of it is
Every verified figure carries the date it was last checked, shown next to the figure and not buried in a footnote. Official datasets are refreshed on their own publication cycles; researched figures are re-checked against their sources rather than cached indefinitely. If something is stale, you can see that it is stale.