US Colleges and Universities
higher-ed
Every active, degree-granting US college and university that takes part in federal student aid, as IPEDS reports it.
Median score
58
across 3553 sites
Middle half
51–64
spread around the median
Full range
16–78
lowest to highest
Gated
1283 of 3553
block AI crawlers outright
Middle of 14 cohorts. All cohorts 50 · best cohort 58.
Where this list came from
The source, and how we filtered it
| Source | IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, HD2024 (directory information), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (2024-fall) |
|---|---|
| License | A work of the United States federal government. Not subject to domestic copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105). |
| How we filtered it | Every institution in HD2024 that is active (CYACTIVE 1), degree-granting (DEGGRANT 1) and either takes part in Title IV federal student aid or is a branch of one that does (OPEFLAG 1 or 2): 3,954 institutions in the 50 states, DC and the territories. The address is the institution's own WEBADDR, trimmed and given a scheme. A path on a host only one institution reports is cut back to the site root; a path on a host several report (a chain of campuses on one domain) is kept, because it is what tells the campuses apart. Nothing is dropped for sharing a host: each institution keeps its row and the website is measured once. Rows are ordered by state and name, and carry no rank. See scripts/prepare-higher-ed-roster. |
| Instead of | The US News ranking, a copyrighted compilation we may read but not relicense, which ranks prestige rather than describing the population. |
| Built | 2026-10-11 |
The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.
Distribution
Where the 3553 sites land
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adequate | 1489 | 41.9% | |
| Weak | 1714 | 48.2% | |
| Not ready | 325 | 9.1% | |
| Strong | 25 | 0.7% |
By dimension
What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension
The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.
| Dimension | Mean share earned | Mean |
|---|---|---|
| #1 · Reach
These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information. |
75% | |
| #2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |
52% | |
| #3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are? |
30% | |
| #4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |
76% |
How much of each site we read
The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 32, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.
214 sites in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.
Where this cohort fails
6 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
Universal — nobody passes these
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACT-3 | If you have a public API, is it described in a standard file? | 3 | 2 | |
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 3553 | 0 | |
| EXT-15 | Can an AI agent find out how to sign in to your site? | 3 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 3553 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 3345 | 0 | |
| EXT-7 | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 231 | 0 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 3553 | 0 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 401 | 0 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 3449 | 0 | |
| EXT-18 | Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay? | 208 | 0 | |
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 3132 | 2 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 3553 | 0 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 3553 | 2 | |
| RED-5 | Do your PDFs and images have their own rules for search and quoting? | 3019 | 1 | |
| UND-5 | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 2984 | 1 |
Common — 90 to 95%
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
Every site
Every 3,954, named, with a report for each
Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.
Showing 1–100 of 3,954 · page 1 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama A & M University aamu.eduIPEDS UnitID 100654; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine acom.eduIPEDS UnitID 483975; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Alabama State University alasu.eduIPEDS UnitID 100724; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Amridge University amridgeuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 100690; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Athens State University athens.eduIPEDS UnitID 100812; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Auburn University auburn.eduIPEDS UnitID 100858; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Auburn University at Montgomery aum.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 100830; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Bevill State Community College bscc.eduIPEDS UnitID 102429; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Bishop State Community College bishop.eduIPEDS UnitID 102030; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Alabama Community College cacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 100760; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Chattahoochee Valley Community College cv.eduIPEDS UnitID 101028; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Coastal Alabama Community College coastalalabama.eduIPEDS UnitID 101161; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Columbia Southern University columbiasouthern.eduIPEDS UnitID 450933; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Enterprise State Community College escc.eduIPEDS UnitID 101143; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Faulkner University faulkner.eduIPEDS UnitID 101189; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Fortis Institute-Birmingham fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 455628; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 20 other institutions, measured once | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Gadsden State Community College gadsdenstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 101240; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| George C Wallace Community College-Dothan wallace.eduIPEDS UnitID 101286; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| George C Wallace State Community College-Hanceville wallacestate.eduIPEDS UnitID 101295; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| George C Wallace State Community College-Selma wccs.eduIPEDS UnitID 101301; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| H Councill Trenholm State Community College trenholmstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 102313; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Heritage Christian University hcu.eduIPEDS UnitID 101453; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Herzing University-Birmingham herzing.eduIPEDS UnitID 101365; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Huntingdon College huntingdon.eduIPEDS UnitID 101435; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Huntsville Bible College huntsvillebiblecollege.orgIPEDS UnitID 449348; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 15 | |
| J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College drakestate.eduIPEDS UnitID 101462; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Jacksonville State University jsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 101480; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Jefferson State Community College jeffersonstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 101505; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| John C Calhoun State Community College calhoun.eduIPEDS UnitID 101514; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lawson State Community College lawsonstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 101569; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Lurleen B Wallace Community College lbwcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 101602; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Marion Military Institute marionmilitary.eduIPEDS UnitID 101648; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Miles College miles.eduIPEDS UnitID 101675; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Northeast Alabama Community College nacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 101897; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 31 | |
| Northwest Shoals Community College nwscc.eduIPEDS UnitID 101736; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oakwood University www2.oakwood.eduIPEDS UnitID 101912; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 1 | |
| Reid State Technical College rstc.eduIPEDS UnitID 101994; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 2 | |
| Remington College-Mobile Campus remingtoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 366535; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once; the address on record points at a page within a site that several institutions share, which is what tells this campus from its siblings; the site is measured once | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Samford University samford.eduIPEDS UnitID 102049; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Shelton State Community College sheltonstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 102067; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Snead State Community College snead.eduIPEDS UnitID 102076; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| South University-Montgomery southuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 101116; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 9 other institutions, measured once | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southern Union State Community College suscc.eduIPEDS UnitID 251260; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Spring Hill College shc.eduIPEDS UnitID 102234; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Stillman College stillman.eduIPEDS UnitID 102270; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Talladega College talladega.eduIPEDS UnitID 102298; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 30 | |
| The University of Alabama ua.eduIPEDS UnitID 100751; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 26 | |
| Troy University troy.eduIPEDS UnitID 102368; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Tuskegee University tuskegee.eduIPEDS UnitID 102377; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| United States Sports University ussa.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 102395; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham uab.eduIPEDS UnitID 100663; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| University of Alabama in Huntsville uah.eduIPEDS UnitID 100706; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| University of Alabama System Office uasystem.eduIPEDS UnitID 100733; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 60 | No | 32 | |
| University of Mobile umobile.eduIPEDS UnitID 101693; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| University of Montevallo montevallo.eduIPEDS UnitID 101709; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| University of North Alabama una.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 101879; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| University of South Alabama southalabama.eduIPEDS UnitID 102094; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of West Alabama uwa.eduIPEDS UnitID 101587; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 76 | No | 32 | |
| Alaska Bible College akbible.eduIPEDS UnitID 102580; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Alaska Career College alaskacareercollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 103501; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 31 | |
| Alaska Christian College alaskacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 442523; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 31 | Gated | 32 | |
| Alaska Pacific University alaskapacific.eduIPEDS UnitID 102669; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Charter College chartercollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 102845; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Ilisagvik College ilisagvik.eduIPEDS UnitID 434584; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| University of Alaska Anchorage uaa.alaska.eduIPEDS UnitID 102553; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| University of Alaska Fairbanks uaf.eduIPEDS UnitID 102614; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Alaska Southeast uas.alaska.eduIPEDS UnitID 102632; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| University of Alaska System of Higher Education alaska.eduIPEDS UnitID 103529; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| American Samoa Community College amsamoa.eduIPEDS UnitID 240736; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; in American Samoa, a US territory or freely associated state, not one of the 50 states or DC | 48 | No | 1 | |
| American InterContinental University System aius.educationIPEDS UnitID 445027; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 11 | |
| Arizona Board of Regents azregents.eduIPEDS UnitID 420802; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 58 | No | 30 | |
| Arizona Christian University arizonachristian.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 105899; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Arizona College of Nursing-Phoenix arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 495457; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 18 other institutions, measured once | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arizona College of Nursing-Tempe arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 421708; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 18 other institutions, measured once | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arizona College of Nursing-Tucson arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 495448; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 18 other institutions, measured once | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arizona College-Glendale arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 497277; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 18 other institutions, measured once | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine asaom.eduIPEDS UnitID 446039; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion asu.eduIPEDS UnitID 104151; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Arizona State University Digital Immersion asu.eduIPEDS UnitID 483124; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Arizona Western College azwestern.eduIPEDS UnitID 104160; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Aspen University aspen.eduIPEDS UnitID 454829; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Brookline College-Phoenix brooklinecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 104090; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Brookline College-Tempe brooklinecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 404055; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Brookline College-Tucson brooklinecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 438179; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bryan University, Arizona bryanuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 110219; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Carrington College-Mesa carrington.eduIPEDS UnitID 103909; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 13 other institutions, measured once | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carrington College-Phoenix North carrington.eduIPEDS UnitID 103893; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 13 other institutions, measured once | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carrington College-Tucson carrington.eduIPEDS UnitID 103927; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 13 other institutions, measured once | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Arizona College centralaz.eduIPEDS UnitID 104346; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Chamberlain University-Arizona chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 454245; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 15 other institutions, measured once | 65 | Gated | 32 | |
| Chandler-Gilbert Community College cgc.maricopa.eduIPEDS UnitID 364025; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cochise County Community College District cochise.eduIPEDS UnitID 104425; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Coconino Community College coconino.eduIPEDS UnitID 404426; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Community Christian College cccollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 446163; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Crestpoint University crestpoint.eduIPEDS UnitID 461023; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 27 | |
| DeVry University-Arizona devry.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 482422; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 11 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Dine College dinecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 105297; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Eastern Arizona College eac.eduIPEDS UnitID 104577; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott prescott.erau.eduIPEDS UnitID 104586; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 1 | |
| Estrella Mountain Community College estrellamountain.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 384333; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Data: sites.csv · checks.csv · summary.json