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 1,201–1,300 of 3,954 · page 13 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheaton College wheaton.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 149781; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| William Rainey Harper College harpercollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 149842; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; the address IPEDS carries pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 46 | Gated | 27 | |
| Worsham College of Mortuary Science worsham.eduIPEDS UnitID 369455; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary ambs.eduIPEDS UnitID 151865; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Anderson University, Indiana anderson.eduIPEDS UnitID 150066; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 35 | Gated | 32 | |
| Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Indianapolis aviationmaintenance.eduIPEDS UnitID 438735; 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 | |
| Ball State University bsu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 150136; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Bethany Theological Seminary bethanyseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 143233; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bethel University, Indiana betheluniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 150145; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Butler University butler.eduIPEDS UnitID 150163; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Calumet College of Saint Joseph ccsj.eduIPEDS UnitID 150172; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Caris College cariscollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 491941; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chamberlain University-Indiana chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 475741; 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 | |
| Christian Theological Seminary cts.eduIPEDS UnitID 150215; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| College of Court Reporting Inc ccr.eduIPEDS UnitID 150251; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Concordia Theological Seminary ctsfw.eduIPEDS UnitID 150288; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| DePauw University depauw.eduIPEDS UnitID 150400; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Earlham College earlham.eduIPEDS UnitID 150455; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Fortis College-Indianapolis fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 458681; 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 | |
| Franklin College franklincollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 150604; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Goshen College goshen.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 150668; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Grace College and Theological Seminary grace.eduIPEDS UnitID 150677; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Hanover College hanover.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 150756; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Holy Cross College hcc-nd.eduIPEDS UnitID 150774; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Horizon University horizonuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 457226; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Huntington University huntington.eduIPEDS UnitID 150941; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Indiana Institute of Technology indianatech.eduIPEDS UnitID 151290; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Indiana Institute of Technology-College of Professional Studies cps.indianatech.eduIPEDS UnitID 492962; 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 | 1 | |
| Indiana State University indianastate.eduIPEDS UnitID 151324; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Indiana University-Bloomington bloomington.iu.eduIPEDS UnitID 151351; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Indiana University-East east.iu.eduIPEDS UnitID 151388; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Indiana University-Indianapolis indianapolis.iu.eduIPEDS UnitID 151111; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Indiana University-Kokomo kokomo.iu.eduIPEDS UnitID 151333; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Indiana University-Northwest northwest.iu.eduIPEDS UnitID 151360; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Indiana University-South Bend southbend.iu.eduIPEDS UnitID 151342; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Indiana University-Southeast southeast.iu.eduIPEDS UnitID 151379; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 11 | |
| Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion indwes.eduIPEDS UnitID 151801; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Indiana Wesleyan University-National & Global indwes.eduIPEDS UnitID 488679; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 60 | No | 32 | |
| International Business College-Indianapolis ibcindianapolis.eduIPEDS UnitID 151467; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 7 | |
| Ivy Tech Community College ivytech.eduIPEDS UnitID 150987; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| John Patrick University of Health and Applied Sciences jpu.eduIPEDS UnitID 488776; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lincoln College of Technology-Indianapolis lincolntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 151661; 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 | |
| Manchester University manchester.eduIPEDS UnitID 151777; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Marian University, Indiana marian.eduIPEDS UnitID 151786; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Marian University-Ancilla marian.eduIPEDS UnitID 497833; 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 | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Martin University martin.eduIPEDS UnitID 151810; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Mid-America College of Funeral Service mid-america.eduIPEDS UnitID 151962; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| MyComputerCareer at Indianapolis mycomputercareer.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 451228; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Oakland City University oak.eduIPEDS UnitID 152099; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Purdue University Fort Wayne pfw.eduIPEDS UnitID 151102; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Purdue University Global purdueglobal.eduIPEDS UnitID 489779; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Purdue University Northwest pnw.eduIPEDS UnitID 490805; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 23 | |
| Purdue University-Main Campus purdue.eduIPEDS UnitID 243780; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology rose-hulman.eduIPEDS UnitID 152318; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 27 | |
| Ross Medical Education Center-Fort Wayne rosseducation.eduIPEDS UnitID 456506; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Mary's College saintmarys.eduIPEDS UnitID 152390; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College smwc.eduIPEDS UnitID 152381; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Meinrad School of Theology saintmeinrad.eduIPEDS UnitID 152451; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 19 | |
| Stellar Career College-Crown Point stellarcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 499680; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 2 | |
| Taylor University taylor.eduIPEDS UnitID 152530; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Trine University trine.eduIPEDS UnitID 152567; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses trine.eduIPEDS UnitID 414878; 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 IPEDS carries pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Union Bible College ubca.orgIPEDS UnitID 491525; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Evansville evansville.eduIPEDS UnitID 150534; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| University of Indianapolis uindy.eduIPEDS UnitID 151263; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Notre Dame nd.eduIPEDS UnitID 152080; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| University of Saint Francis-Fort Wayne sf.eduIPEDS UnitID 152336; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| University of Southern Indiana usi.eduIPEDS UnitID 151306; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Valparaiso University valpo.eduIPEDS UnitID 152600; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Veritas Baptist College vbc.eduIPEDS UnitID 482228; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 7 | |
| Vincennes University vinu.eduIPEDS UnitID 152637; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Wabash College wabash.eduIPEDS UnitID 152673; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 1 | |
| Allen College allencollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 152798; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Briar Cliff University briarcliff.eduIPEDS UnitID 152992; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Buena Vista University bvu.eduIPEDS UnitID 153001; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Central College central.eduIPEDS UnitID 153108; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Clarke University clarke.eduIPEDS UnitID 153126; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Coe College coe.eduIPEDS UnitID 153144; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Cornell College cornellcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 153162; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | No | 1 | |
| Des Moines Area Community College dmacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 153214; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center dmu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 154156; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Divine Word College dwci.eduIPEDS UnitID 153241; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 28 | |
| Dordt University dordt.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 153250; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| Drake University drake.eduIPEDS UnitID 153269; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Eastern Iowa Community College District eicc.eduIPEDS UnitID 153311; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Ellsworth Community College ecc.iavalley.eduIPEDS UnitID 153296; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 1 | |
| Emmaus Bible College emmaus.eduIPEDS UnitID 153302; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary faith.eduIPEDS UnitID 153320; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Graceland University-Lamoni graceland.eduIPEDS UnitID 153366; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Grand View University grandview.eduIPEDS UnitID 153375; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | No | 32 | |
| Grinnell College grinnell.eduIPEDS UnitID 153384; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Hawkeye Community College hawkeyecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 153445; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Indian Hills Community College indianhills.eduIPEDS UnitID 153472; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Iowa Central Community College iowacentral.eduIPEDS UnitID 153524; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Iowa Lakes Community College iowalakes.eduIPEDS UnitID 153533; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Iowa State University iastate.eduIPEDS UnitID 153603; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Iowa Western Community College iwcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 153630; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Kirkwood Community College kirkwood.eduIPEDS UnitID 153737; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Loras College loras.eduIPEDS UnitID 153825; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Luther College luther.eduIPEDS UnitID 153834; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | 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