Dataset
Colleges and Universities
Colleges and universities within the City of Boston.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 30
- Keywords
- boston, ckan, colleges, oem, open, tpl, universities
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/colleges-and-universities
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 29522 | 45e880797188f5dc5125ccd48d9d49dbfc5dff87c49c6c7b0959648d710dbe0c | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 53219 | 920f9e47dfdad2b1d4646ac464962bde598409cf22dada443456601e6dcfb1ec | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 15882 | 1aef70c745df6d7198f7a4a87a4cb8fbd90f699975106bb4c537dc0736abe847 | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Match_type | text | |
Ref_ID | text | |
ID1 | text | |
Id | text | |
SchoolId | text | |
Name | text | |
Address | text | |
City | text | |
Zipcode | text | |
Contact | text | |
PhoneNumbe | text | |
YearBuilt | text | |
NumStories | text | |
Cost | text | |
NumStudent | text | |
BackupPowe | text | |
ShelterCap | text | |
Latitude | text | |
Longitude | text | |
Comment | text | |
X | text | |
Y | text | |
NumStudent12 | text | |
CampusHous | text | |
NumStudents13 | text | |
URL | text | |
Address2013 | text | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:colleges-and-universities
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/colleges-and-universities
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/colleges-and-universities.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- colleges-and-universities
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |