Provide secure, scalable, and innovative experiences to your students, faculty, and administrative staff with Kong's [API management platform](https://konghq.com/products/kong-konnect)API management platform.
Kong helps IT teams at universities embrace innovation and help deliver modern digital learning tools and student services.
Use the Kong platform to build, run, and govern the APIs that help seamlessly integrate student information systems, learning management systems, and faculty research databases that serve diverse users like students, faculty members, and admin staff.
See how one of the longest continuously operating research universities in Switzerland used Kong Gateway to adopt a microservices architecture and accelerate API adoption.
Quickly launch digital services that improve the student experience by automating your API lifecycle.
Implement highly customized security policies and manage governance from a single source to secure student records, proprietary research data, and other sensitive information.
Dynamically scale to handle critical high-traffic periods such as course enrollment or timed online exams and assessments.
“At the University of Sheffield, taking a leadership role in digital innovation is key to our educational mission. As such, Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateway will be instrumental in supporting our goals, offering unparalleled performance, security, and flexibility. The Kong platform will enable us to deploy API management seamlessly in the cloud, helping ensure that our digital infrastructure is robust, scalable, and secure.”
Beniamin Orza, Enterprise Architect at The University of Sheffield
Automate your entire API lifecycle with seamless integrations into your DevOps and GitOps workflows. Save time by utilizing our declarative configuration tool (decK) to easily manage your Kong Gateway or Kong Konnect configuration. Simply define the desired state, including services, routes, or plugins, and let decK handle the implementation.
With the time won back, allocate your resources towards developing innovative solutions to address the evolving needs of students.
[Learn how](/blog/engineering/automating-api-delivery-with-apiops-and-kong)Learn how you can automate your API delivery with APIOps and Kong.
Protect student records and proprietary research data with Kong’s broad support for secrets management services or vaults. Easily manage access, establish encryption, and rotate keys across your campus networks regardless of where you run.
Leverage Kong's comprehensive built-in security features and plugin ecosystem to create authentication, authorization, and encryption monitoring policies that address the unique security needs of your higher-ed environment.
[Learn more](/solutions/api-security)Learn more about API security.
Kong's lightweight gateway with near zero latency scales automatically to handle peak demand sessions with ease.
With horizontal and vertical auto-scaling capabilities, universities can ensure continuous access to vital academic services such as course enrollment, online timed exams or assessments.
[Watch our webinar](/events/webinars/how-to-scale-high-performance-apis-and-microservices)Watch our webinar "How to Scale High-Performance APIs and Microservices."
Kong named a Magic Quadrant™ Leader for API Management, plus positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.
Learn how to elevate the developer experience, streamline API governance, and enhance discoverability and reusability of APIs with Kong.
Deepen your understanding of the impact of APIs in today’s digital ecosystem, and gain best practices on how to effectively safeguard them.
Explore the principles of a modern API platform, the problems with legacy solutions, and how Kong Konnect can help build, secure, monitor, and publish APIs at scale.
Contact us today and tell us more about your configuration and we can offer details about features, support, plans, and consulting.