A system and method for providing educational course data includes receiving identification data of a first educational course of a first educational institution from a client machine and retrieving educational course equivalency data from a database based on the identification data. The educational course equivalency data is transmitted to the client machine. The educational course equivalency data may include identification data of a second educational course of a second educational institution. The educational course equivalency data may indicate that the first and second educational courses are directly equivalent. The method may also include retrieving course information related to the second educational course based on a request and transmitting the course information to the client machine.