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 1,901–2,000 of 3,954 · page 20 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquinas Institute of Theology ai.eduIPEDS UnitID 176600; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arizona College of Nursing-St Louis arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 500333; 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 | |
| Avila University avila.eduIPEDS UnitID 176628; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing barnesjewishcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 177719; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Bolivar Technical College bolivarcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 490203; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bryan University, Missouri bryanu.eduIPEDS UnitID 369516; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Calvary University calvary.eduIPEDS UnitID 176789; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Christian College of the Bible cccb.eduIPEDS UnitID 176910; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Central Methodist University-College of Graduate and Extended Studies centralmethodist.eduIPEDS UnitID 445267; 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 | 39 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Methodist University-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences centralmethodist.eduIPEDS UnitID 176947; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 39 | Gated | 32 | |
| Chamberlain University-Missouri chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 466921; 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 | |
| City Vision University cityvision.eduIPEDS UnitID 457697; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| College of the Ozarks cofo.eduIPEDS UnitID 178697; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Columbia College, Missouri ccis.eduIPEDS UnitID 177065; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Conception Seminary College conception.eduIPEDS UnitID 177083; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 31 | |
| Concorde Career College-Kansas City concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 155283; 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 | |
| Concordia Seminary csl.eduIPEDS UnitID 177092; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cottey College cottey.eduIPEDS UnitID 177117; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Covenant Theological Seminary covenantseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 177126; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cox College coxcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 176770; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Crowder College crowder.eduIPEDS UnitID 177135; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Culver-Stockton College culver.eduIPEDS UnitID 177144; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Drury University drury.eduIPEDS UnitID 177214; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Drury University-College of Continuing Professional Studies drury.eduIPEDS UnitID 492801; 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 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 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| East Central College eastcentral.eduIPEDS UnitID 177250; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Eden Theological Seminary eden.eduIPEDS UnitID 177278; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Evangel University evangel.eduIPEDS UnitID 177339; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Evangel University-College of Online Learning evangel.eduIPEDS UnitID 497824; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Evangel University-James River Assembly of God Church evangel.eduIPEDS UnitID 477233; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Fontbonne University fontbonne.eduIPEDS UnitID 177418; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 15 | |
| Hannibal-LaGrange University hlg.eduIPEDS UnitID 177542; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| Harris-Stowe State University hssu.eduIPEDS UnitID 177551; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Jefferson College jeffco.eduIPEDS UnitID 177676; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Kansas City Art Institute kcai.eduIPEDS UnitID 177746; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Kansas City University kansascity.eduIPEDS UnitID 179812; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Lincoln University, Missouri lincolnu.eduIPEDS UnitID 177940; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 31 | |
| Lindenwood University lindenwood.eduIPEDS UnitID 177968; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Logan University logan.eduIPEDS UnitID 177986; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 31 | |
| Maryville University of Saint Louis maryville.eduIPEDS UnitID 178059; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City mcckc.eduIPEDS UnitID 177995; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Midwest Institute midwestinstitute.comIPEDS UnitID 178183; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary mbts.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 178208; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Mineral Area College mineralarea.eduIPEDS UnitID 178217; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Mission University mission.eduIPEDS UnitID 176664; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Missouri Baptist University mobap.eduIPEDS UnitID 178244; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Missouri Southern State University mssu.eduIPEDS UnitID 178341; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Missouri State University-Springfield missouristate.eduIPEDS UnitID 179566; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Missouri State University-West Plains wp.missouristate.eduIPEDS UnitID 179344; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology mst.eduIPEDS UnitID 178411; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Missouri Valley College moval.eduIPEDS UnitID 178369; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Missouri Western State University missouriwestern.eduIPEDS UnitID 178387; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 9 | |
| Moberly Area Community College macc.eduIPEDS UnitID 178448; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Nazarene Theological Seminary nts.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 178518; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| North Central Missouri College ncmissouri.eduIPEDS UnitID 179715; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northwest Missouri State University nwmissouri.eduIPEDS UnitID 178624; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Ozark Christian College occ.eduIPEDS UnitID 178679; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Ozarks Technical Community College otc.eduIPEDS UnitID 177472; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 4 | |
| Park University park.eduIPEDS UnitID 178721; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Pinnacle Career Institute pcitraining.eduIPEDS UnitID 177302; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Ponce Health Sciences University-St Louis stlouis.psm.eduIPEDS UnitID 494010; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Ranken Technical College ranken.eduIPEDS UnitID 178891; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Research College of Nursing researchcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 178989; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Rockhurst University rockhurst.eduIPEDS UnitID 179043; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Louis Community College stlcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 179308; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Louis University slu.eduIPEDS UnitID 179159; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences sehcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 417734; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 31 | |
| Southeast Missouri State University semo.eduIPEDS UnitID 179557; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southwest Baptist University sbuniv.eduIPEDS UnitID 179326; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 31 | |
| St Charles Community College stchas.eduIPEDS UnitID 262031; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| St Louis College of Health Careers-Fenton slchc.eduIPEDS UnitID 442426; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| State Fair Community College sfccmo.eduIPEDS UnitID 179539; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 31 | |
| State Technical College of Missouri statetechmo.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 177977; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Stephens College stephens.eduIPEDS UnitID 179548; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | Gated | 32 | |
| Stevens-The Institute of Business & Arts siba.eduIPEDS UnitID 178767; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Texas County Technical College texascountytech.eduIPEDS UnitID 441487; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 31 | |
| Three Rivers College trcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 179645; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Truman State University truman.eduIPEDS UnitID 178615; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| University of Central Missouri ucmo.eduIPEDS UnitID 176965; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis uhsp.eduIPEDS UnitID 179265; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Missouri-Columbia missouri.eduIPEDS UnitID 178396; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| University of Missouri-Kansas City umkc.eduIPEDS UnitID 178402; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 30 | |
| University of Missouri-St Louis umsl.eduIPEDS UnitID 178420; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 5 | |
| University of Missouri-System Office umsystem.eduIPEDS UnitID 178439; 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 | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Urshan Graduate School of Theology urshan.eduIPEDS UnitID 455099; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once; the address on record points at a page within a site that several institutions share, which is what tells this campus from its siblings; the site is measured once | 52 | Gated | 6 | |
| Urshan University urshan.eduIPEDS UnitID 494685; 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 | 6 | |
| Washington University in St Louis washu.eduIPEDS UnitID 179867; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Webster University webster.eduIPEDS UnitID 179894; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| WellSpring School of Allied Health-Kansas City wellspring.eduIPEDS UnitID 447999; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 47 | No | 1 | |
| WellSpring School of Allied Health-Springfield wellspring.eduIPEDS UnitID 493451; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 47 | No | 1 | |
| Westminster College, Missouri wcmo.eduIPEDS UnitID 179946; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| William Jewell College jewell.eduIPEDS UnitID 179955; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| William Woods University williamwoods.eduIPEDS UnitID 179964; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Aaniiih Nakoda College ancollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 180203; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 29 | |
| Blackfeet Community College bfcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 180054; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carroll College carroll.eduIPEDS UnitID 180106; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Chief Dull Knife College cdkc.eduIPEDS UnitID 180160; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 31 | |
| Dawson Community College dawson.eduIPEDS UnitID 180151; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Flathead Valley Community College fvcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 180197; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Fort Peck Community College fpcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 180212; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Great Falls College Montana State University gfcmsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 180249; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 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