College/University list for populating an Auto-complete field?

Question

I'm trying to create an auto-complete text field with a list of known Universities and Colleges. Do you know where I can get this sort of list? Or is there a public API that contains this data?

Answer 1

The US Federal Aid Application site (http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/) has a very complete list, although I'm not sure how many non-US universities are listed (some are).

You could consider starting an application and scraping the list.