Where do you find the dataset which contains info on all colleges/courses

Question

Where do you find information on courses offered by various colleges across the world. We are planning to re-use this data for suggesting possible colleges where a student can apply.

Is this data provided by any company as an API much similar to the API(s) available in http://www.programmableweb.com/

Answer 1

Most of the information is copyrighted and therefore I would consider it unlikely that you can download it via a single data set.