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 1,601–1,700 of 3,954 · page 17 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkshire Community College berkshirecc.eduIPEDS UnitID 164775; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Boston Architectural College the-bac.eduIPEDS UnitID 164872; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Boston Baptist College boston.eduIPEDS UnitID 164614; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Boston College bc.eduIPEDS UnitID 164924; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Inc bgsp.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 164915; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| Boston University bu.eduIPEDS UnitID 164988; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Brandeis University brandeis.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 165015; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Bridgewater State University bridgew.eduIPEDS UnitID 165024; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Bristol Community College bristolcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 165033; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Bunker Hill Community College bhcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 165112; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Cambridge College cambridgecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 165167; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Cape Cod Community College capecod.eduIPEDS UnitID 165194; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Clark University clarku.eduIPEDS UnitID 165334; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| College of Our Lady of the Elms elms.eduIPEDS UnitID 167394; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| College of the Holy Cross holycross.eduIPEDS UnitID 166124; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Conway School of Landscape Design csld.eduIPEDS UnitID 165495; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Curry College curry.eduIPEDS UnitID 165529; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Dean College dean.eduIPEDS UnitID 165574; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Eastern Nazarene College enc.eduIPEDS UnitID 165644; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Emerson College emerson.eduIPEDS UnitID 165662; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Emmanuel College emmanuel.eduIPEDS UnitID 165671; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Endicott College endicott.eduIPEDS UnitID 165699; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| FINE Mortuary College fmc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 436599; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Fisher College fisher.eduIPEDS UnitID 165802; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Fitchburg State University fitchburgstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 165820; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Framingham State University framingham.eduIPEDS UnitID 165866; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Franklin W Olin College of Engineering olin.eduIPEDS UnitID 441982; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Gordon College gordon.eduIPEDS UnitID 165936; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary gordonconwell.eduIPEDS UnitID 165945; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Greenfield Community College gcc.mass.eduIPEDS UnitID 165981; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Hampshire College hampshire.eduIPEDS UnitID 166018; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Harvard University harvard.eduIPEDS UnitID 166027; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Hebrew College hebrewcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 166045; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology hchc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 166054; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Holyoke Community College hcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 166133; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Hult International Business School hult.eduIPEDS UnitID 164368; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Laboure College of Healthcare laboure.eduIPEDS UnitID 165264; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Lasell University lasell.eduIPEDS UnitID 166391; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 4 | |
| Lawrence Memorial Hospital School of Nursing lmregis.orgIPEDS UnitID 166407; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 7 | |
| Lesley University lesley.eduIPEDS UnitID 166452; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Longy School of Music of Bard College longy.eduIPEDS UnitID 166489; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Massachusetts Bay Community College massbay.eduIPEDS UnitID 166647; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Massachusetts College of Art and Design massart.eduIPEDS UnitID 166674; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts mcla.eduIPEDS UnitID 167288; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 31 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology web.mit.eduIPEDS UnitID 166683; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 10 | |
| Massachusetts Maritime Academy maritime.eduIPEDS UnitID 166692; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Massachusetts School of Law mslaw.eduIPEDS UnitID 369002; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 32 | |
| Massasoit Community College massasoit.eduIPEDS UnitID 166823; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| MCPHS University mcphs.eduIPEDS UnitID 166656; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Merrimack College merrimack.eduIPEDS UnitID 166850; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| MGH Institute of Health Professions mghihp.eduIPEDS UnitID 166869; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 1 | |
| Middlesex Community College middlesex.mass.eduIPEDS UnitID 166887; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 1 | |
| Montserrat College of Art montserrat.eduIPEDS UnitID 166911; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Mount Holyoke College mtholyoke.eduIPEDS UnitID 166939; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Mount Wachusett Community College mwcc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 166957; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| New England College of Optometry neco.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 167093; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| New England Law-Boston nesl.eduIPEDS UnitID 167215; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Nichols College nichols.eduIPEDS UnitID 167260; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| North Shore Community College northshore.eduIPEDS UnitID 167312; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northeastern University northeastern.eduIPEDS UnitID 167358; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Northeastern University Professional Programs northeastern.eduIPEDS UnitID 482705; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Northern Essex Community College necc.mass.eduIPEDS UnitID 167376; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 3 | |
| Northpoint Bible College northpoint.eduIPEDS UnitID 217606; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 1 | |
| Quincy College quincycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 167525; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Quinsigamond Community College qcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 167534; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Regis College regiscollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 167598; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | No | 1 | |
| Roxbury Community College rcc.mass.eduIPEDS UnitID 167631; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Saint John's Seminary sjs.eduIPEDS UnitID 167677; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Salem State University salemstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 167729; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Simmons University simmons.eduIPEDS UnitID 167783; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Smith College smith.eduIPEDS UnitID 167835; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Springfield College springfield.eduIPEDS UnitID 167899; 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 | |
| Springfield College-Regional, Online, and Continuing Education springfield.eduIPEDS UnitID 475273; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office; the address IPEDS carries pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Springfield Technical Community College stcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 167905; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Stonehill College stonehill.eduIPEDS UnitID 167996; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Suffolk University suffolk.eduIPEDS UnitID 168005; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| The New England Conservatory of Music necmusic.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 167057; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Tufts University tufts.eduIPEDS UnitID 168148; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School umassmed.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 166708; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst umass.eduIPEDS UnitID 166629; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| University of Massachusetts-Boston umb.eduIPEDS UnitID 166638; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| University of Massachusetts-Central Office massachusetts.eduIPEDS UnitID 166665; 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 | 65 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth umassd.eduIPEDS UnitID 167987; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| University of Massachusetts-Lowell uml.eduIPEDS UnitID 166513; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Urban College of Boston urbancollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 429128; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 36 | No | 32 | |
| Wellesley College wellesley.eduIPEDS UnitID 168218; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 76 | No | 32 | |
| Wentworth Institute of Technology wit.eduIPEDS UnitID 168227; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Western New England University wne.eduIPEDS UnitID 168254; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Westfield State University westfield.ma.eduIPEDS UnitID 168263; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Wheaton College (Massachusetts) wheatoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 168281; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| William James College williamjames.eduIPEDS UnitID 166717; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Williams College williams.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 168342; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute wpi.eduIPEDS UnitID 168421; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 29 | Gated | 1 | |
| Worcester State University worcester.eduIPEDS UnitID 168430; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Adrian College adrian.eduIPEDS UnitID 168528; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Albion College albion.eduIPEDS UnitID 168546; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Alma College alma.eduIPEDS UnitID 168591; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Alpena Community College alpenacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 168607; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Andrews University andrews.eduIPEDS UnitID 168740; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Aquinas College aquinas.eduIPEDS UnitID 168786; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | 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