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 2,001–2,100 of 3,954 · page 21 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helena College University of Montana helenacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 180276; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Highlands College of Montana Tech mtech.eduIPEDS UnitID 180081; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Little Big Horn College lbhc.eduIPEDS UnitID 180328; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Miles Community College milescc.eduIPEDS UnitID 180373; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 1 | |
| Montana State University montana.eduIPEDS UnitID 180461; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | No | 32 | |
| Montana State University Billings msubillings.eduIPEDS UnitID 180179; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Montana State University-Northern msun.eduIPEDS UnitID 180522; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Montana Technological University mtech.eduIPEDS UnitID 180416; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Pima Medical Institute-Dillon pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 489812; 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 | |
| Rocky Mountain College rocky.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 180595; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Salish Kootenai College skc.eduIPEDS UnitID 180647; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Stone Child College stonechild.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 366340; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 406 | — | No | — | |
| The University of Montana umt.eduIPEDS UnitID 180489; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| The University of Montana-Western umwestern.eduIPEDS UnitID 180692; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 31 | |
| University of Providence uprovidence.eduIPEDS UnitID 180258; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Bellevue University bellevue.eduIPEDS UnitID 180814; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bryan College of Health Sciences bryanhealthcollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 180878; 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; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Central Community College cccneb.eduIPEDS UnitID 180902; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Chadron State College csc.eduIPEDS UnitID 180948; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| CHI Health School of Radiologic Technology chihealth.comIPEDS UnitID 181145; 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 | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Clarkson College clarksoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 180832; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| College of Saint Mary csm.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 181604; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Concordia University-Nebraska cune.eduIPEDS UnitID 180984; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Creighton University creighton.eduIPEDS UnitID 181002; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Doane University doane.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 181020; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Hastings College hastings.eduIPEDS UnitID 181127; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Little Priest Tribal College littlepriest.eduIPEDS UnitID 434016; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 30 | |
| Metropolitan Community College Area mccneb.eduIPEDS UnitID 181303; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Mid-Plains Community College mpcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 181312; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 31 | |
| Midland University midlandu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 181330; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Myotherapy Institute myotherapy.eduIPEDS UnitID 434432; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 37 | No | 10 | |
| Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture ncta.unl.eduIPEDS UnitID 181765; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Nebraska Indian Community College thenicc.eduIPEDS UnitID 181419; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health methodistcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 181297; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University nebrwesleyan.eduIPEDS UnitID 181446; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Northeast Community College northeast.eduIPEDS UnitID 181491; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 29 | |
| Peru State College peru.eduIPEDS UnitID 181534; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southeast Community College Area southeast.eduIPEDS UnitID 181640; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Summit Christian College summitcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 181543; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Union Adventist University uau.eduIPEDS UnitID 181738; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Universal College of Healing Arts ucha.eduIPEDS UnitID 446598; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 10 | |
| University of Nebraska at Kearney unk.eduIPEDS UnitID 181215; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| University of Nebraska at Omaha unomaha.eduIPEDS UnitID 181394; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center unmc.eduIPEDS UnitID 181428; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| University of Nebraska-Central Administration System Office nebraska.eduIPEDS UnitID 181747; 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 | 48 | No | 32 | |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln unl.eduIPEDS UnitID 181464; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Wayne State College wsc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 181783; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Western Nebraska Community College wncc.eduIPEDS UnitID 181817; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| York University york.eduIPEDS UnitID 181853; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Arizona College of Nursing-Las Vegas arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 487375; 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 | |
| Carrington College-Las Vegas carrington.eduIPEDS UnitID 457101; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 13 other institutions, measured once | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carrington College-Reno carrington.eduIPEDS UnitID 457110; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 13 other institutions, measured once | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Chamberlain University-Nevada chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 486938; 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 | |
| College of Southern Nevada csn.eduIPEDS UnitID 182005; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| DeVry University-Nevada devry.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 482547; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 11 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Galen Health Institutes-Las Vegas galencollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 499671; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 19 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Great Basin College gbcnv.eduIPEDS UnitID 182306; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 29 | |
| Las Vegas College lvcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 182148; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| Nevada Career Institute nevadacareerinstitute.comIPEDS UnitID 414939; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| Nevada State University nevadastate.eduIPEDS UnitID 441900; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| Nevada System of Higher Education-System Office nshe.nevada.eduIPEDS UnitID 182519; 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 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northwest Career College northwestcareercollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 445948; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pima Medical Institute-Las Vegas pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 445230; 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 | |
| Roseman University of Health Sciences roseman.eduIPEDS UnitID 445735; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Touro University Nevada tun.touro.eduIPEDS UnitID 459824; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Truckee Meadows Community College tmcc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 182500; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| University of Nevada-Las Vegas unlv.eduIPEDS UnitID 182281; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| University of Nevada-Reno unr.eduIPEDS UnitID 182290; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Western Nevada College wnc.eduIPEDS UnitID 182564; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Wongu University of Oriental Medicine wongu.eduIPEDS UnitID 488907; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Antioch University-New England antiochne.eduIPEDS UnitID 245865; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Colby-Sawyer College colby-sawyer.eduIPEDS UnitID 182634; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dartmouth College dartmouth.eduIPEDS UnitID 182670; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin Pierce University franklinpierce.eduIPEDS UnitID 182795; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 31 | |
| Great Bay Community College greatbay.eduIPEDS UnitID 183150; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Keene State College keene.eduIPEDS UnitID 183062; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Lakes Region Community College lrcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 183123; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Manchester Community College mccnh.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 183132; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Nashua Community College nashuacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 183141; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| New England College nec.eduIPEDS UnitID 182980; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| NHTI-Concord's Community College nhti.eduIPEDS UnitID 183099; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Plymouth State University plymouth.eduIPEDS UnitID 183080; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| River Valley Community College rivervalley.eduIPEDS UnitID 183114; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rivier University rivier.eduIPEDS UnitID 183211; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint Anselm College anselm.eduIPEDS UnitID 183239; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Southern New Hampshire University snhu.eduIPEDS UnitID 183026; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| St Joseph School of Nursing sjson.eduIPEDS UnitID 183248; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Thomas More College of Liberal Arts thomasmorecollege.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 183275; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| University of New Hampshire at Manchester manchester.unh.eduIPEDS UnitID 183071; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies Online cps.unh.eduIPEDS UnitID 183257; 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 | 58 | No | 32 | |
| University of New Hampshire-Franklin Pierce School of Law law.unh.eduIPEDS UnitID 182829; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| University of New Hampshire-Main Campus unh.eduIPEDS UnitID 183044; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| University System of New Hampshire System Office usnh.eduIPEDS UnitID 183327; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 65 | No | 32 | |
| White Mountains Community College wmcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 183105; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 31 | |
| American Institute of Medical Sciences & Education aimseducation.eduIPEDS UnitID 455202; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Atlantic Cape Community College atlanticcape.eduIPEDS UnitID 183655; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah baismedrashmayanhatorah.comIPEDS UnitID 490513; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 32 | Gated | 8 | |
| Bais Medrash Toras Chesed bmtc.eduIPEDS UnitID 449658; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 24 | |
| Bergen Community College bergen.eduIPEDS UnitID 183743; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 19 | |
| Berkeley College-Woodland Park berkeleycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 183789; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 66 | 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