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 1,701–1,800 of 3,954 · page 18 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona College of Nursing-Southfield arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 498049; 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 | |
| Baker College baker.eduIPEDS UnitID 168847; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bay de Noc Community College baycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 168883; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bay Mills Community College bmcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 380359; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Calvin Theological Seminary calvinseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 169099; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Calvin University calvin.eduIPEDS UnitID 169080; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Central Michigan University cmich.eduIPEDS UnitID 169248; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chamberlain University-Michigan chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 486947; 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 | |
| Cleary University cleary.eduIPEDS UnitID 169327; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| College for Creative Studies ccsdetroit.eduIPEDS UnitID 169442; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Concordia University Ann Arbor cuaa.eduIPEDS UnitID 169363; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Cornerstone University cornerstone.eduIPEDS UnitID 170037; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Cranbrook Academy of Art cranbrookart.eduIPEDS UnitID 169424; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Davenport University davenport.eduIPEDS UnitID 169479; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Delta College delta.eduIPEDS UnitID 169521; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Dorsey College dorsey.eduIPEDS UnitID 169761; 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 | |
| Dorsey College-Dearborn dorsey.eduIPEDS UnitID 483504; 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 | |
| Dorsey College-Roseville dorsey.eduIPEDS UnitID 250744; 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 | |
| Eastern Michigan University emich.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 169798; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Ecumenical Theological Seminary etseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 247162; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 31 | |
| Ferris State University ferris.eduIPEDS UnitID 169910; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Glen Oaks Community College glenoaks.eduIPEDS UnitID 169974; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Gogebic Community College gogebic.eduIPEDS UnitID 169992; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Grace Christian University gracechristian.eduIPEDS UnitID 170000; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Grand Rapids Community College grcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 170055; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Grand Valley State University gvsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 170082; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Great Lakes Christian College glcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 170091; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Henry Ford College hfcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 170240; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 9 | |
| Hope College hope.eduIPEDS UnitID 170301; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Jackson College jccmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 170444; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Kalamazoo College kzoo.eduIPEDS UnitID 170532; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Kalamazoo Valley Community College kvcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 170541; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Kellogg Community College kellogg.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 170550; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Kettering University kettering.eduIPEDS UnitID 169983; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College kbocc.eduIPEDS UnitID 461315; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Kirtland Community College kirtland.eduIPEDS UnitID 170587; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 31 | |
| Kuyper College kuyper.eduIPEDS UnitID 171881; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 31 | |
| Lake Michigan College lakemichigancollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 170620; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Lake Superior State University lssu.eduIPEDS UnitID 170639; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lansing Community College lcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 170657; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Lawrence Technological University ltu.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 170675; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Macomb Community College macomb.eduIPEDS UnitID 170790; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Madonna University madonna.eduIPEDS UnitID 170806; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Michigan School of Psychology msp.eduIPEDS UnitID 169220; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Michigan State University msu.eduIPEDS UnitID 171100; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | No | 1 | |
| Michigan Technological University mtu.eduIPEDS UnitID 171128; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Mid Michigan College midmich.eduIPEDS UnitID 171155; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Monroe County Community College monroeccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 171225; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 31 | |
| Montcalm Community College montcalm.eduIPEDS UnitID 171234; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mott Community College mcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 169275; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 30 | |
| Muskegon Community College muskegoncc.eduIPEDS UnitID 171304; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| North Central Michigan College ncmich.eduIPEDS UnitID 171395; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Northern Michigan University nmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 171456; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Northwestern Michigan College nmc.eduIPEDS UnitID 171483; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Northwood University northwood.eduIPEDS UnitID 171492; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Oakland Community College oaklandcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 171535; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Oakland University oakland.eduIPEDS UnitID 171571; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Rochester University rcu.eduIPEDS UnitID 170967; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Ross College-Grand Rapids North rosseducation.eduIPEDS UnitID 490841; 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 | |
| Sacred Heart Major Seminary shms.eduIPEDS UnitID 172033; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College sagchip.eduIPEDS UnitID 441070; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Saginaw Valley State University svsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 172051; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Schoolcraft Community College District schoolcraft.eduIPEDS UnitID 172200; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Siena Heights University sienaheights.eduIPEDS UnitID 172264; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 1 | |
| Southwestern Michigan College swmich.eduIPEDS UnitID 172307; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Spring Arbor University arbor.eduIPEDS UnitID 172334; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 1 | |
| St Clair County Community College sc4.eduIPEDS UnitID 172291; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| The University of Olivet uolivet.eduIPEDS UnitID 171599; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Thomas M Cooley Law School cooley.eduIPEDS UnitID 172477; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Universal Technical Institute-Canton uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 169655; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once | 64 | No | 32 | |
| University of Detroit Mercy udmercy.eduIPEDS UnitID 169716; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor umich.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 170976; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| University of Michigan-Dearborn umdearborn.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 171137; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| University of Michigan-Flint umflint.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 171146; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Walsh College walshcollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 172608; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Washtenaw Community College wccnet.eduIPEDS UnitID 172617; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Wayne County Community College District wcccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 172635; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Wayne State University wayne.eduIPEDS UnitID 172644; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| West Shore Community College westshore.eduIPEDS UnitID 172671; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Western Michigan University wmich.eduIPEDS UnitID 172699; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine wmed.eduIPEDS UnitID 490373; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Western Theological Seminary westernsem.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 172705; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Greater Detroit yeshivagedolahgreaterdetroit.comIPEDS UnitID 247773; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 1 | |
| Academy College academycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 172866; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Adler Graduate School alfredadler.eduIPEDS UnitID 374024; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 31 | |
| Alexandria Technical & Community College alextech.eduIPEDS UnitID 172918; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| American Academy of Health and Wellness acupunctureschoolusa.comIPEDS UnitID 446002; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Anoka Technical College anokatech.eduIPEDS UnitID 172954; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Anoka-Ramsey Community College anokaramsey.eduIPEDS UnitID 172963; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Augsburg University augsburg.eduIPEDS UnitID 173045; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Bemidji State University bemidjistate.eduIPEDS UnitID 173124; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 12 | |
| Bethany Global University bethanygu.eduIPEDS UnitID 486284; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Bethany Lutheran College blc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 173142; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Bethel University, Minnesota bethel.eduIPEDS UnitID 173160; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Capella University capella.eduIPEDS UnitID 413413; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Carleton College carleton.eduIPEDS UnitID 173258; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Lakes College-Brainerd clcmn.eduIPEDS UnitID 173203; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Century College century.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 175315; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| College of Saint Benedict csbsju.eduIPEDS UnitID 174747; 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 | Gated | 32 | |
| Concordia College at Moorhead concordiacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 173300; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | 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