Bedcount MCP
An MCP server providing access to IPEDS enrollment data, college-controlled housing capacity, bed gap calculations, and a by-the-bed student housing loan sizer for 693 US campuses. It allows AI assistants to query specific campus metrics or search campuses by various criteria without requiring authentication.
Endpoint and access
No sign-in to connect and list tools. Individual tools may still need a vendor account, credentials, or permissions; check the documented prerequisites.
https://studenthousing.loans/mcpWhat its tools do
3 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.
Read-only (3)
Checks and signals
Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.
- Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
- Passed Official MCP Registry namespace is tied to studenthousing.loans ·
- Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain ·
- Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days
What you can do with it
- Retrieve enrollment and housing bed data for a specific campus
- Search campuses by state, city, or bed gap metrics
- Size a student housing loan using the by-the-bed loan sizer
Source and maintenance
Protocol and capabilities
- Server
- studenthousing-loans 1.0.0
- MCP protocol negotiated in check
- 2025-06-18
- Tools
- 3 advertised
- Resources
- Not advertised
- Resource templates
- Not advertised
- Prompts
- Not advertised
{
"tools": {
"listChanged": false
}
}Server-provided instructions
Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.
Tools
3 advertised
get_campus — Student housing data for one campus
One US four-year campus (3,000+ full-time students) from federal IPEDS data: fall 2024 enrollment (total, full-time, undergraduate, graduate, online share, change from 2023), college-controlled housing beds for 2024-25, beds per 100 full-time students, the bed gap, typical housing and food charges, aid-office housing budgets, and whether it meets Fannie Mae's 10,000-student campus-size test. Find it by name (with optional state) or IPEDS UNITID.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 120,
"minLength": 2,
"description": "Campus name or distinctive words from it, e.g. \"University of Florida\" or \"texas austin\"."
},
"state": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[A-Za-z]{2}$",
"description": "Two-letter state code to narrow a name match, e.g. TX."
},
"unitid": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^\\d{6}$",
"description": "Six-digit IPEDS UNITID, e.g. 228778. Overrides name."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Student housing data for one campus",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": false,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}search_campuses — Find and rank campuses by students and beds
Lists US four-year campuses (3,000+ full-time students) filtered by state, city, name words, sector, whether the college offers housing, Fannie Mae campus-size test, or minimum full-time enrollment, ranked by bed gap, enrollment, college beds, beds per 100 students or housing charge. Each row gives fall 2024 enrollment, 2024-25 college-controlled beds, bed gap, housing charge and the campus page link.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"city": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 60,
"minLength": 2,
"description": "City name, e.g. \"Austin\"."
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 120,
"minLength": 2,
"description": "Words from the campus name, e.g. \"state university\"."
},
"sort": {
"enum": [
"bed_gap",
"fulltime_enrollment",
"total_enrollment",
"beds_per_100",
"college_beds",
"housing_charge"
],
"type": "string",
"default": "bed_gap",
"description": "Ranking field."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 10,
"maximum": 25,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Rows to return (max 25)."
},
"order": {
"enum": [
"desc",
"asc"
],
"type": "string",
"default": "desc",
"description": "desc = largest first."
},
"state": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[A-Za-z]{2}$",
"description": "Two-letter state code, e.g. TX."
},
"offset": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 0,
"maximum": 1000,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Rows to skip, for paging."
},
"sector": {
"enum": [
"Public",
"Private nonprofit",
"Private for-profit"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Control of the institution."
},
"min_fulltime": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 200000,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Minimum full-time students, fall 2024."
},
"offers_housing": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "true = only colleges that provide housing; false = only those that provide none."
},
"fannie_campus_size_test": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "true = only campuses with 10,000+ students, majority full-time (Fannie Mae Dedicated Student Housing campus-size test)."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Find and rank campuses by students and beds",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": false,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}size_loan — Size a student housing loan by the bed
The studenthousing.loans by-the-bed loan sizer: from beds, rent per bed, months collected, vacancy, expenses, reserves, value and your own interest rate, returns net operating income and the loan allowed by max LTV, min DSCR and an optional debt yield, the maximum loan (the smallest), which test binds, annual debt service and loan per bed. Presets are Freddie Mac's published student housing LTV/DSCR tiers.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"beds",
"rent_per_bed_month",
"opex_per_bed_year",
"value",
"interest_rate_pct"
],
"properties": {
"beds": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 100000,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Number of beds."
},
"value": {
"type": "number",
"maximum": 10000000000,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Property value or purchase price, dollars."
},
"preset": {
"enum": [
"freddie_5_7yr",
"freddie_over_7yr",
"freddie_full_io_5_7yr"
],
"type": "string",
"default": "freddie_5_7yr",
"description": "Freddie Mac student housing tier: freddie_5_7yr = 75% LTV / 1.30x; freddie_over_7yr = 80% / 1.30x; freddie_full_io_5_7yr = 65% / 1.30x, interest only."
},
"min_dscr": {
"type": "number",
"maximum": 3,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Minimum debt service coverage, e.g. 1.25. Overrides the preset."
},
"max_ltv_pct": {
"type": "number",
"maximum": 100,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Max loan-to-value, percent. Overrides the preset."
},
"vacancy_pct": {
"type": "number",
"default": 5,
"maximum": 100,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Vacancy, concessions and bad debt, percent of rent. Default 5, Fannie Mae's by-the-bed floor with a T-12 (10 without one)."
},
"months_collected": {
"type": "number",
"default": 12,
"maximum": 12,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Months of rent collected a year: 12 on 12-month leases, less if summer is empty."
},
"interest_rate_pct": {
"type": "number",
"maximum": 20,
"minimum": 0.01,
"description": "Your own quoted interest rate, percent, e.g. 6.25."
},
"opex_per_bed_year": {
"type": "number",
"maximum": 100000,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Operating expenses per bed per year (taxes, insurance, payroll, utilities, turnover), dollars."
},
"amortization_years": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 40,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Amortization in years, 0 = interest only. Default 30 (0 with the full-IO preset)."
},
"min_debt_yield_pct": {
"type": "number",
"maximum": 30,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Minimum debt yield, percent. Omit or 0 to skip the test."
},
"rent_per_bed_month": {
"type": "number",
"maximum": 20000,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Rent per bed per month, dollars."
},
"reserves_per_bed_year": {
"type": "number",
"default": 150,
"maximum": 10000,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Replacement reserves per bed per year, dollars. Default 150, Freddie Mac's stated minimum per bed."
},
"other_income_per_bed_month": {
"type": "number",
"default": 0,
"maximum": 5000,
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Other income per bed per month (parking, fees, utility bill-backs), dollars."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Size a student housing loan by the bed",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": false,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}Prompts
Not advertised
Resources
Not advertised
90-day uptime
A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.
- 2026-11-02: 4 of 4 checks answered
- 2026-11-03: 1 of 1 checks answered
30-day availability
Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.
- Successful checks
- 1 of 1 (100%)
- Average latency
- 574 ms
- 95th percentile latency
- 574 ms
Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · probe · passed · 574 ms · metadata changed · 3 tool(s)
Connect from your client
Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http bedcount-mcp https://studenthousing.loans/mcpCodex
codex mcp add bedcount-mcp --url https://studenthousing.loans/mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"bedcount-mcp": {
"url": "https://studenthousing.loans/mcp"
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"bedcount-mcp": {
"type": "streamableHttp",
"url": "https://studenthousing.loans/mcp",
"disabled": false
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"bedcount-mcp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://studenthousing.loans/mcp"
}
}
}Gemini CLI
gemini mcp add --transport http bedcount-mcp https://studenthousing.loans/mcpClaude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"bedcount-mcp": {
"url": "https://studenthousing.loans/mcp"
}
}
}Windsurf
{
"mcpServers": {
"bedcount-mcp": {
"serverUrl": "https://studenthousing.loans/mcp"
}
}
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