Open Campus Advisor
Rank #136,103smithery/opencampusadvisor/oca
Live academic data across 101 US colleges and universities — directly inside Claude. Search real course catalogs updated every 60 minutes, find faculty with active NIH grants, compare schools head-to-head on any topic, navigate from a career goal to the exact courses and professors that get you there. 19 tools covering course search, faculty research, degree requirements, career outcomes, and cross-school comparison. Set your student profile once and every subsequent call filters and ranks results automatically completed courses removed, results ranked by your career targets and interests. Used for: choosing between schools, planning a semester, finding a research advisor, verifying prerequisites, mapping a path from "I want to work in climate policy" to the specific courses and funded labs at Yale, Columbia, and MIT that lead there.
What you can do with Open Campus Advisor
Open Campus Advisor is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. It ranks #136,103 of 166,322 active servers on MCP Toplist. Open Campus Advisor is listed on Smithery; no version information is available from the registries that list it or from its repository. It was first listed on Jun 12, 2026.
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What Open Campus Advisor can and cannot do
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What you need before using Open Campus Advisor
The hosted endpoint is declared as gated by authentication — connect via its URL and authenticate with the provider (OAuth flow or an API key/header, per its docs).
Declared by Smithery, last synced Nov 2, 2026. Not independently verified by MCP Toplist.
Hosted endpoint declared as requiring authentication.
Connect Open Campus Advisor and confirm it works
claude mcp add --transport http oca https://server.smithery.ai/opencampusadvisor/oca/mcpThis endpoint requires authentication — see the server’s docs for credentials.
[mcp_servers.oca]
url = "https://server.smithery.ai/opencampusadvisor/oca/mcp"Add to ~/.codex/config.toml. This endpoint requires authentication — see the server’s docs for credentials.
https://server.smithery.ai/opencampusadvisor/oca/mcpSettings → Connectors → “Add custom connector”, then paste this URL. This endpoint requires authentication — see the server’s docs for credentials.
{
"mcpServers": {
"oca": {
"url": "https://server.smithery.ai/opencampusadvisor/oca/mcp"
}
}
}Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (per project). This endpoint requires authentication — see the server’s docs for credentials.
{
"servers": {
"oca": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://server.smithery.ai/opencampusadvisor/oca/mcp"
}
}
}Save as .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace. This endpoint requires authentication — see the server’s docs for credentials.
{
"mcpServers": {
"oca": {
"serverUrl": "https://server.smithery.ai/opencampusadvisor/oca/mcp"
}
}
}Add to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json. This endpoint requires authentication — see the server’s docs for credentials.
{
"mcpServers": {
"oca": {
"url": "https://server.smithery.ai/opencampusadvisor/oca/mcp"
}
}
}This endpoint requires authentication — see the server’s docs for credentials.
After adding the config, ask your client to list this server's tools. A tool list confirms the connection; an empty list or an error means the server did not start or needs credentials.
What changed, and when this was checked
- First listed
- Jun 12, 2026
- Version history
- Unavailable — no registry exposes versions and no release tags were found
- Requirements evidence
- Declared by Smithery, last synced Nov 2, 2026. Not independently verified by MCP Toplist.
- Profile checked
- Not yet — purpose, capabilities and requirements above come from registry data only
- Ranking data as of
- Nov 2, 2026
- Smithery ↗listed since Oct 28, 2026 · still listed
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Open Campus Advisor listed on the Official MCP Registry?
- Open Campus Advisor is not on the Official MCP Registry. It is listed on Smithery.
- How many versions does Open Campus Advisor have?
- Version information is unavailable for Open Campus Advisor: no registry that lists it exposes version metadata, and no release tags were found on its repository.
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