---
aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
name: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
description: >-
  The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a public land-grant research
  university and the flagship campus of the University of Illinois System, ranked #40
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint includes the
  Course Information Suite (CISAPI) Course Explorer API, which exposes class schedule and
  course catalog data without authentication, and the open-source Rokwire platform that
  powers the official Illinois mobile app via a set of building-block APIs (Core,
  Gateway, Content, Notifications, Surveys, and more) published under an Apache 2.0
  license. The University Library exposes institutional repository metadata through the
  IDEALS OAI-PMH endpoint.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Open Data
  - Courses
  - Library
  - United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:cisapi-course-explorer
    name: Course Explorer (CISAPI)
    description: >-
      The Course Information Suite API (CISAPI) is a collection of RESTful resources that
      expose Class Schedule and Course Catalog data. It includes Schedule, Catalog,
      GenEd, Term, and Subjects modules. The public Course Explorer API requires no
      authentication; data is available as XML.
    humanURL: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisdocs/
    baseURL: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisapp/explorer
    tags: [ Courses, Catalog, Schedule, Open Data, Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://courses.illinois.edu/cisdocs/api
  - aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:rokwire-core
    name: Rokwire Core Building Block
    description: >-
      Core Building Block of the open-source Rokwire platform behind the official
      Illinois mobile app, handling users, accounts, profiles, organizations, and
      authentication/authorization. Source code is published under Apache 2.0.
    humanURL: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core/doc/ui/
    tags: [ Authentication, Identity, Mobile, Open Source ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/core/doc/ui/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/rokwire/core-building-block
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-rokwire-core.yaml
  - aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:rokwire-gateway
    name: Rokwire Gateway Building Block
    description: >-
      Gateway Building Block of the Rokwire platform, providing access to external
      university systems and data streams for the Illinois mobile app ecosystem.
    humanURL: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway/doc/ui/
    tags: [ Gateway, Integration, Mobile, Open Source ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gateway/doc/ui/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/rokwire/gateway-building-block
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-rokwire-gateway.yaml
  - aid: university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign:ideals-oai-pmh
    name: IDEALS OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      The University of Illinois institutional repository (IDEALS) exposes Dublin Core
      metadata records through a standards-based OAI-PMH data provider endpoint for
      harvesting by external discovery and aggregation services.
    humanURL: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ideals
    baseURL: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
    tags: [ Library, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/ideals/what_is_the_oai_pmh_data_provider_url_for_ideals
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://illinois.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/rokwire
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/illinois
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign/
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.illinois.edu/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com