postsecondary_locations

Find the campuses, centres and sites of B.C. post-secondary institutions from the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training's Locations of B.C. Post-Secondary Institutions layer on DataBC, read live: public institutions (universities, colleges, institutes) and private, out-of-province and theological degree-granting institutions. Filter by location or institution name, town, economic development region, type, or distance from a point. Returns location name, institution, type, region, address, coordinates. Locations only: no programs, tuition or enrolment.

Cost: 3 units of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• name (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• institution (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• locality (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• region (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• type (public, private_or_out_of_province, theological, optional)
• lat (number, optional): min 47.5, max 61
• lon (number, optional): min -140, max -113
• radius_km (number, optional): min 0.5, max 200
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 50, default 20

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/postsecondary_locations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool postsecondary_locations with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"postsecondary_locations","arguments":{}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.