Documentation

Understand how Tuvelan calculates college ROI, or integrate our analysis engine into your own application via the REST API.

Quickstart

Enter your target schools and major and get ROI rankings in under 5 minutes.

How we calculate net present value and internal rate of return for the education investment over a 20-year horizon.

10,000 earnings scenarios using College Scorecard distributions calibrated to school, major, and geography.

Third Way PEP methodology -- years to recoup net cost via median earnings above the high-school baseline.

Chetty mobility rate -- probability of moving from the bottom to top income quintile by institution.

Standard, Extended, IDR, and PSLF plan comparison with forgiveness timelines and monthly payment projections.

POST/v1/calculateRun ROI calculation for school+major

GET/v1/institutions/searchSearch institutions by name

GET/v1/majorsList all fields of study

POST/v1/signupCreate account and get API key

POST/v1/loginAuthenticate and get session

GET/v1/accountGet account details and credit balance

POST/v1/checkoutCreate Stripe checkout session

All API requests require an API key passed via the X-API-Key header.

curl https://tuvelan-api.smarttechinvest.com/v1/institutions/search?q=MIT \
  -H "X-API-Key: tuv_your_api_key_here"