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 1,801–1,900 of 3,954 · page 19 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concordia University-Saint Paul csp.eduIPEDS UnitID 173328; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Crown College crown.eduIPEDS UnitID 174862; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dakota County Technical College dctc.eduIPEDS UnitID 173416; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dunwoody College of Technology dunwoody.eduIPEDS UnitID 175227; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College fdltcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 380368; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 32 | |
| Gustavus Adolphus College gustavus.eduIPEDS UnitID 173647; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hamline University hamline.eduIPEDS UnitID 173665; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 75 | No | 32 | |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School hazeldenbettyford.orgIPEDS UnitID 173683; 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 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Hennepin Technical College hennepintech.eduIPEDS UnitID 173708; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Herzing University-Minneapolis herzing.eduIPEDS UnitID 174154; 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 | |
| Inver Hills Community College inverhills.eduIPEDS UnitID 173799; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lake Superior College lsc.eduIPEDS UnitID 173461; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Leech Lake Tribal College lltc.eduIPEDS UnitID 413626; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 24 | |
| Luther Seminary luthersem.eduIPEDS UnitID 173896; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Macalester College macalester.eduIPEDS UnitID 173902; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 8 | |
| Martin Luther College mlc-wels.eduIPEDS UnitID 173452; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science college.mayo.eduIPEDS UnitID 173957; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Metropolitan State University metrostate.eduIPEDS UnitID 174020; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Minneapolis College of Art and Design mcad.eduIPEDS UnitID 174127; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Minneapolis Community and Technical College minneapolis.eduIPEDS UnitID 174136; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Minnesota North College minnesotanorth.eduIPEDS UnitID 173735; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Minnesota State College Southeast southeastmn.eduIPEDS UnitID 175263; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System Office minnstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 428453; 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 | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Minnesota State Community and Technical College minnesota.eduIPEDS UnitID 173559; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Minnesota State University Moorhead mnstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 174358; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Minnesota State University-Mankato mnsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 173920; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Minnesota West Community and Technical College mnwest.eduIPEDS UnitID 173638; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Mitchell Hamline School of Law mitchellhamline.eduIPEDS UnitID 175281; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Normandale Community College normandale.eduIPEDS UnitID 174428; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| North Central University northcentral.eduIPEDS UnitID 174437; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| North Hennepin Community College nhcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 174376; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Northland Community and Technical College northlandcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 174473; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Northwest Technical College ntcmn.eduIPEDS UnitID 173115; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 16 | |
| Northwestern Health Sciences University nwhealth.eduIPEDS UnitID 174507; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Oak Hills Christian College oakhills.eduIPEDS UnitID 174525; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 39 | Gated | 31 | |
| Pine Technical & Community College pine.eduIPEDS UnitID 174570; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Rasmussen University-Minnesota rasmussen.eduIPEDS UnitID 175014; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Red Lake Nation College rlnc.educationIPEDS UnitID 491844; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 1 | |
| Ridgewater College ridgewater.eduIPEDS UnitID 175236; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Riverland Community College riverland.eduIPEDS UnitID 173063; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Rochester Community and Technical College rctc.eduIPEDS UnitID 174738; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Cloud State University stcloudstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 174783; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint Johns University csbsju.eduIPEDS UnitID 174792; 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 | |
| Saint Mary's University of Minnesota smumn.eduIPEDS UnitID 174817; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Paul College saintpaul.eduIPEDS UnitID 175041; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| South Central College southcentral.eduIPEDS UnitID 173911; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Southwest Minnesota State University smsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 175078; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| St Catherine University stkate.eduIPEDS UnitID 175005; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| St Cloud Technical and Community College sctcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 174756; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| St Olaf College wp.stolaf.eduIPEDS UnitID 174844; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| The College of Saint Scholastica css.eduIPEDS UnitID 174899; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities unitedseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 175139; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| University of Minnesota-Crookston crk.umn.eduIPEDS UnitID 174075; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Minnesota-Duluth d.umn.eduIPEDS UnitID 174233; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| University of Minnesota-Morris morris.umn.eduIPEDS UnitID 174251; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Minnesota-Rochester r.umn.eduIPEDS UnitID 456959; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities twin-cities.umn.eduIPEDS UnitID 174066; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Northwestern-St Paul unwsp.eduIPEDS UnitID 174491; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of St Thomas, Minnesota stthomas.eduIPEDS UnitID 174914; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Walden University waldenu.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 125231; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| White Earth Tribal and Community College wetcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 434751; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Winona State University winona.eduIPEDS UnitID 175272; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Alcorn State University alcorn.eduIPEDS UnitID 175342; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Belhaven University belhaven.eduIPEDS UnitID 175421; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Blue Cliff College-Gulfport bluecliffcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 441502; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 52 | Gated | 31 | |
| Blue Mountain Christian University bmc.eduIPEDS UnitID 175430; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Board of Trustees-Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning mississippi.eduIPEDS UnitID 175999; 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 | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Coahoma Community College coahomacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 175519; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Concorde Career College-Southaven concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 487588; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 15 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 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Copiah-Lincoln Community College colin.eduIPEDS UnitID 175573; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Delta State University deltastate.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 175616; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| East Central Community College eccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 175643; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| East Mississippi Community College eastms.eduIPEDS UnitID 175652; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hinds Community College hindscc.eduIPEDS UnitID 175786; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Holmes Community College holmescc.eduIPEDS UnitID 175810; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Itawamba Community College iccms.eduIPEDS UnitID 175829; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 34 | No | 31 | |
| Jackson State University jsums.eduIPEDS UnitID 175856; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Jones County Junior College jcjc.eduIPEDS UnitID 175883; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Meridian Community College meridiancc.eduIPEDS UnitID 175935; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Millsaps College millsaps.eduIPEDS UnitID 175980; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Mississippi College mc.eduIPEDS UnitID 176053; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mississippi Community College Board mccb.eduIPEDS UnitID 247737; 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 | 61 | No | 20 | |
| Mississippi Delta Community College msdelta.eduIPEDS UnitID 176008; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College mgccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 176071; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Mississippi State University msstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 176080; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Mississippi University for Women muw.eduIPEDS UnitID 176035; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mississippi Valley State University mvsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 176044; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 6 | |
| Northeast Mississippi Community College nemcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 176169; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Northwest Mississippi Community College northwestms.eduIPEDS UnitID 176178; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pearl River Community College prcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 176239; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Rust College rustcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 176318; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southeastern Baptist College southeasternbaptist.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 176336; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Southwest Mississippi Community College smcc.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 176354; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Tougaloo College tougaloo.eduIPEDS UnitID 176406; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| University of Mississippi olemiss.eduIPEDS UnitID 176017; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| University of Southern Mississippi usm.eduIPEDS UnitID 176372; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Wesley Biblical Seminary wbs.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 176451; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| William Carey University wmcarey.eduIPEDS UnitID 176479; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| A T Still University of Health Sciences atsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 177834; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| American Trade School americantradeschool.eduIPEDS UnitID 461573; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 24 |
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