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 101–200 of 3,954 · page 2 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GateWay Community College gatewaycc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 105145; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Glendale Community College, Arizona gccaz.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 104708; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Grand Canyon University gcu.eduIPEDS UnitID 104717; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Indian Bible College indianbible.orgIPEDS UnitID 495280; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| International Baptist College and Seminary ibcs.eduIPEDS UnitID 436614; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 31 | |
| Justice University justiceuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 498623; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Maricopa Community College System Office maricopa.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 105136; 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; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Mesa Community College mesacc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 105154; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Midwestern University-Glendale midwestern.eduIPEDS UnitID 423643; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Miller-Motte College-Arizona Automotive Institute aai.eduIPEDS UnitID 103963; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Mohave Community College mohave.eduIPEDS UnitID 105206; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 31 | |
| Northern Arizona University nau.eduIPEDS UnitID 105330; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Northland Pioneer College npc.eduIPEDS UnitID 105349; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Ottawa University-Surprise ottawa.eduIPEDS UnitID 464226; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 4 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 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Paradise Valley Community College paradisevalley.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 364016; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Phoenix College phoenixcollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 105428; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture pihma.eduIPEDS UnitID 447698; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Pima Community College pima.eduIPEDS UnitID 105525; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Pima Medical Institute-East Valley pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 456038; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 16 other institutions, measured once | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pima Medical Institute-Mesa pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 260691; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 16 other institutions, measured once | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pima Medical Institute-Phoenix pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 486822; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 16 other institutions, measured once | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pima Medical Institute-Tucson pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 105534; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 16 other institutions, measured once | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Prescott College prescott.eduIPEDS UnitID 105589; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Refrigeration School Inc rsi.eduIPEDS UnitID 105659; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rio Salado College riosalado.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 105668; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Scottsdale Community College scottsdalecc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 105747; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Sessions College for Professional Design sessions.eduIPEDS UnitID 475839; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Sonoran Desert Institute sdi.eduIPEDS UnitID 488077; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Sonoran University of Health Sciences sonoran.eduIPEDS UnitID 420246; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| South Mountain Community College southmountaincc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 105792; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Southwest Institute of Healing Arts swiha.eduIPEDS UnitID 442879; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| The School of Architecture tsoa.eduIPEDS UnitID 104665; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Tohono O'odham Community College tocc.eduIPEDS UnitID 442781; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Universal Technical Institute of Arizona Inc uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 106041; 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 | |
| Universal Technical Institute-Phoenix uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 105215; 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 Advancing Technology uat.eduIPEDS UnitID 363934; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| University of Arizona arizona.eduIPEDS UnitID 104179; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| University of Phoenix-Arizona phoenix.eduIPEDS UnitID 484613; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Yavapai College yc.eduIPEDS UnitID 106148; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arkansas Baptist College arkansasbaptist.eduIPEDS UnitID 106306; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 23 | |
| Arkansas Colleges of Health Education achehealth.eduIPEDS UnitID 488527; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arkansas Northeastern College anc.eduIPEDS UnitID 107327; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arkansas State University astate.eduIPEDS UnitID 106458; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Arkansas State University Mid-South asumidsouth.eduIPEDS UnitID 107318; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arkansas State University System asusystem.eduIPEDS UnitID 448336; 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 | 32 | |
| Arkansas State University Three Rivers asutr.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 107521; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 406 | — | No | — | |
| Arkansas State University-Beebe asub.eduIPEDS UnitID 106449; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arkansas State University-Mountain Home asumh.eduIPEDS UnitID 420538; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 31 | |
| Arkansas State University-Newport asun.eduIPEDS UnitID 440402; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 31 | |
| Arkansas Tech University atu.eduIPEDS UnitID 106467; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Baptist Health College Little Rock bhclr.eduIPEDS UnitID 106546; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Black River Technical College blackrivertech.eduIPEDS UnitID 106625; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Baptist College cbc.eduIPEDS UnitID 106713; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Champion Christian College champion.eduIPEDS UnitID 492069; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas cccua.eduIPEDS UnitID 106795; 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 | 59 | No | 30 | |
| Crowley's Ridge College crc.eduIPEDS UnitID 106810; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 27 | |
| East Arkansas Community College eacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 106883; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 1 | |
| Ecclesia College ecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 446233; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Harding University harding.eduIPEDS UnitID 107044; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 1 | |
| Henderson State University hsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 107071; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Hendrix College hendrix.eduIPEDS UnitID 107080; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Jackson Theological Seminary jtseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 497453; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Jefferson Regional School of Nursing jrmc.orgIPEDS UnitID 107123; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| John Brown University jbu.eduIPEDS UnitID 107141; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Lyon College lyon.eduIPEDS UnitID 106342; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 32 | |
| National Park College np.eduIPEDS UnitID 106980; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| North Arkansas College northark.eduIPEDS UnitID 107460; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| NorthWest Arkansas Community College nwacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 367459; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ouachita Baptist University obu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 107512; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Ozarka College ozarka.eduIPEDS UnitID 107549; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 32 | Gated | 32 | |
| Philander Smith University philander.eduIPEDS UnitID 107600; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas pccua.eduIPEDS UnitID 107619; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Shorter College shortercollege.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 107840; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| South Arkansas College southark.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 107974; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 406 | — | No | — | |
| Southeast Arkansas College seark.eduIPEDS UnitID 107637; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southern Arkansas University Main Campus saumag.eduIPEDS UnitID 107983; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southern Arkansas University Tech sautech.eduIPEDS UnitID 107992; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas uark.eduIPEDS UnitID 106397; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas at Little Rock ualr.eduIPEDS UnitID 106245; 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 | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas at Monticello uamont.eduIPEDS UnitID 106485; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff uapb.eduIPEDS UnitID 106412; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 30 | |
| University of Arkansas Community College Rich Mountain uarichmountain.eduIPEDS UnitID 107743; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 30 | |
| University of Arkansas Community College-Batesville uaccb.eduIPEDS UnitID 106999; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas Community College-Morrilton uaccm.eduIPEDS UnitID 107585; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 6 | |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences uams.eduIPEDS UnitID 106263; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas Grantham uagrantham.eduIPEDS UnitID 442569; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana uaht.eduIPEDS UnitID 107725; 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 | 56 | No | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas System Office uasys.eduIPEDS UnitID 108056; 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 | 57 | No | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas-Fort Smith uafs.eduIPEDS UnitID 108092; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College uaptc.eduIPEDS UnitID 107664; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 14 | |
| University of Central Arkansas uca.eduIPEDS UnitID 106704; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of the Ozarks ozarks.eduIPEDS UnitID 107558; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Williams Baptist University williamsbaptistuniversity.comIPEDS UnitID 107877; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 1 | |
| ABCO Technology abcotechnology.eduIPEDS UnitID 485500; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 29 | |
| Abraham Lincoln University alu.eduIPEDS UnitID 488031; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 31 | |
| Academy for Jewish Religion California ajrca.eduIPEDS UnitID 457271; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Academy of Art University academyart.eduIPEDS UnitID 108232; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences acchs.eduIPEDS UnitID 108269; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | No | 1 | |
| Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College-Berkeley aimc.eduIPEDS UnitID 384306; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Agape College of Business and Science acbscollege.orgIPEDS UnitID 496399; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 16 |
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