Editorial methodology

Every useful claim needs a visible trail.

Anyroll separates official catalogue identity from facts checked field by field on a provider page. The label on every record tells you which evidence you are looking at.

Source hierarchy

  1. Official programme page from the university.
  2. Official university admissions, fees or regulations page.
  3. Official national programme registry or open government dataset.
  4. Third-party aggregators only for discovery, never as the final authority for a deadline or fee.

Field-level provenance

A programme is not "verified" as one indivisible object. Tuition, deadline, intake, language and entry requirements can change independently, so each field keeps its own source link and review date.

Two public data tiers

A catalogue row can prove that a programme exists without proving its current fee. Anyroll preserves that distinction instead of hiding useful official records or filling their gaps with guesses.

  1. Deep-verified records (26). Decision fields have passed source, scope and quote checks against an official programme or university page.
  2. Official catalogue records (35,668). Programme identity comes from a national registry or government dataset. Only facts supplied by that source are shown as catalogue facts; provider-specific fees, deadlines and entry requirements remain unavailable until enriched.

How the checking works

The crawler follows a programme root and its relevant fee, admission and curriculum pages as one graph. Every accepted fact stores the value, source URL, exact evidence and review date. A child page can contribute a fact only when its relationship to the named programme or university is proved.

Where a source says nothing, nothing is recorded. A missing fact stays missing rather than being filled from another programme, a generic table row or a plausible model answer.

Data sources and licensing

Catalogue coverage comes from official sources rather than commercial aggregators:

  • United Kingdom. Discover Uni data published by HESA under CC BY 4.0, with provider links retained.
  • United States. College Scorecard programme and institution data published by the US Department of Education.
  • Germany. DAAD / Hochschulkompass programme catalogue records linked to the human-readable official entry.
  • Australia. CRICOS course register records published by the Australian Government, including registered international course duration and total cost where supplied.

Ranking and corrections

Deep-verified records appear before catalogue-tier records in discovery results. Paid placement does not change programme order. When a source conflicts with Anyroll, the official source wins and the affected field returns through verification.

Scope matters. A catalogue identity is useful, but it is not a verified fee or deadline. Anyroll states the boundary on the page and keeps the official source one click away.