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 901–1,000 of 3,954 · page 10 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Central Florida ucf.eduIPEDS UnitID 132903; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| University of Florida ufl.eduIPEDS UnitID 134130; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| University of Florida-Online ufonline.ufl.eduIPEDS UnitID 484473; 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 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Fort Lauderdale uftl.eduIPEDS UnitID 457402; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 29 | |
| University of Miami miami.eduIPEDS UnitID 135726; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 32 | Gated | 1 | |
| University of North Florida unf.eduIPEDS UnitID 136172; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| University of South Florida usf.eduIPEDS UnitID 137351; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| University of West Florida uwf.eduIPEDS UnitID 138354; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Valencia College valenciacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 138187; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Warner University warner.eduIPEDS UnitID 138275; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Webber International University webber.eduIPEDS UnitID 138293; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 32 | |
| West Coast University-Miami westcoastuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 485272; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once | 78 | No | 32 | |
| Yeshivah Gedolah Rabbinical College lecfl.comIPEDS UnitID 363712; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | No | 18 | |
| Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College abac.eduIPEDS UnitID 138558; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 31 | |
| Agnes Scott College agnesscott.eduIPEDS UnitID 138600; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Albany State University asurams.eduIPEDS UnitID 138716; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Albany Technical College albanytech.eduIPEDS UnitID 138682; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| American InterContinental University-Atlanta aiuniv.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 438586; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, 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; not measured: challenge page (Imperva) | — | No | — | |
| Andrew College andrewcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 138761; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 1 | |
| Athens Technical College athenstech.eduIPEDS UnitID 246813; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Atlanta Institute of Music and Media aimm.eduIPEDS UnitID 419244; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 31 | |
| Atlanta Metropolitan State College atlm.eduIPEDS UnitID 138901; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 29 | |
| Atlanta Technical College atlantatech.eduIPEDS UnitID 138840; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 30 | |
| Atlanta's John Marshall Law School johnmarshall.eduIPEDS UnitID 138929; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 32 | |
| Augusta Technical College augustatech.eduIPEDS UnitID 138956; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Augusta University augusta.eduIPEDS UnitID 482149; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Atlanta aviationmaintenance.eduIPEDS UnitID 440059; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, 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 | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Berry College berry.eduIPEDS UnitID 139144; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Beulah Heights University beulah.eduIPEDS UnitID 139153; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Brenau University brenau.eduIPEDS UnitID 139199; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Brewton-Parker College bpc.eduIPEDS UnitID 139205; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Central Georgia Technical College centralgatech.eduIPEDS UnitID 483045; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Chamberlain University-Georgia chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 475732; 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 | |
| Chattahoochee Technical College chattahoocheetech.eduIPEDS UnitID 140331; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Clark Atlanta University cau.eduIPEDS UnitID 138947; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Clayton State University clayton.eduIPEDS UnitID 139311; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Coastal Pines Technical College coastalpines.eduIPEDS UnitID 485458; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| College of Coastal Georgia ccga.eduIPEDS UnitID 139250; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Columbia Theological Seminary ctsnet.eduIPEDS UnitID 139348; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Columbus State University columbusstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 139366; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Columbus Technical College columbustech.eduIPEDS UnitID 139357; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Covenant College covenant.eduIPEDS UnitID 139393; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dalton State College daltonstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 139463; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| DeVry University-Georgia devry.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 482468; 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 | — | |
| East Georgia State College ega.eduIPEDS UnitID 139621; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 1 | |
| Emmanuel University ec.eduIPEDS UnitID 139630; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Emory University emory.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 139658; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Emory University-Oxford College oxford.emory.eduIPEDS UnitID 487092; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Fort Valley State University fvsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 139719; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Fortis College-Smyrna fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 372921; 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 | |
| Georgia College & State University gcsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 139861; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 31 | |
| Georgia Gwinnett College ggc.eduIPEDS UnitID 447689; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Georgia Highlands College highlands.eduIPEDS UnitID 139700; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus gatech.eduIPEDS UnitID 139755; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Georgia Military College gmc.eduIPEDS UnitID 485111; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | No | 32 | |
| Georgia Northwestern Technical College gntc.eduIPEDS UnitID 139384; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Georgia Piedmont Technical College gptc.eduIPEDS UnitID 244446; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Georgia Southern University georgiasouthern.eduIPEDS UnitID 139931; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Georgia Southwestern State University gsw.eduIPEDS UnitID 139764; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Georgia State University gsu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 139940; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Georgia State University-Perimeter College perimeter.gsu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 244437; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Gordon State College gordonstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 139968; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gupton Jones College of Funeral Service gupton-jones.eduIPEDS UnitID 139995; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Gwinnett College-Marietta Campus gwinnettcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 444714; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Gwinnett College-Sandy Springs gwinnettcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 425250; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Gwinnett Technical College gwinnetttech.eduIPEDS UnitID 140012; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Helms College helms.eduIPEDS UnitID 481155; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Herzing University-Atlanta herzing.eduIPEDS UnitID 140340; 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 | |
| Interactive College of Technology-Chamblee ict.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 138655; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 6 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Interactive College of Technology-Gainesville ict.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 442435; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 6 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Interactive College of Technology-Morrow ict.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 138664; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 6 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Interdenominational Theological Center itc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 140146; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Kennesaw State University kennesaw.eduIPEDS UnitID 486840; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| LaGrange College lagrange.eduIPEDS UnitID 140234; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 16 | |
| Lanier Technical College laniertech.eduIPEDS UnitID 140243; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Life University life.eduIPEDS UnitID 140252; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Lincoln College of Technology-East Point lincolntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 500096; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 9 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 | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Lincoln College of Technology-Marietta lincolntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 434159; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 9 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 | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Luther Rice College & Seminary lutherrice.eduIPEDS UnitID 135364; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Mercer University mercer.eduIPEDS UnitID 140447; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Middle Georgia State University mga.eduIPEDS UnitID 482158; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Miller-Motte College-Augusta miller-motte.eduIPEDS UnitID 460826; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Miller-Motte College-Columbus miller-motte.eduIPEDS UnitID 458441; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Miller-Motte College-Macon miller-motte.eduIPEDS UnitID 475060; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Morehouse College morehouse.eduIPEDS UnitID 140553; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Morehouse School of Medicine msm.eduIPEDS UnitID 140562; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 30 | |
| Morris Brown College morrisbrown.eduIPEDS UnitID 140571; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 30 | |
| North Georgia Technical College northgatech.eduIPEDS UnitID 140678; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Oconee Fall Line Technical College oftc.eduIPEDS UnitID 420431; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Ogeechee Technical College ogeecheetech.eduIPEDS UnitID 366465; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Oglethorpe University oglethorpe.eduIPEDS UnitID 140696; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Paine College paine.eduIPEDS UnitID 140720; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Piedmont University piedmont.eduIPEDS UnitID 140818; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Point University point.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 138868; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Reinhardt University reinhardt.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 140872; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Savannah College of Art and Design scad.eduIPEDS UnitID 140951; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Savannah State University savannahstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 140960; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Savannah Technical College savannahtech.eduIPEDS UnitID 140942; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Shorter University shorter.eduIPEDS UnitID 140988; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| South Georgia State College sgsc.eduIPEDS UnitID 482699; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 |
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