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 2,101–2,200 of 3,954 · page 22 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Care College bestcarecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 461865; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Beth Medrash Govoha bmg.eduIPEDS UnitID 183804; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 10 | |
| Beth Medrash of Asbury Park baismedrashzichronmeir.comIPEDS UnitID 488314; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 8 | |
| Bloomfield College of Montclair State University bloomfield.eduIPEDS UnitID 183822; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 1 | |
| Brookdale Community College brookdalecc.eduIPEDS UnitID 183859; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 31 | |
| Caldwell University caldwell.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 183910; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Camden County College camdencc.eduIPEDS UnitID 183938; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Centenary University centenaryuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 183974; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Chamberlain University-New Jersey chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 486956; 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 | |
| County College of Morris ccm.eduIPEDS UnitID 184180; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| DeVry University-New Jersey devry.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 482556; 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 | — | |
| Drew University drew.eduIPEDS UnitID 184348; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 31 | |
| Eastern International College-Jersey City eicollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 421878; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine esatm.eduIPEDS UnitID 446224; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Eastwick College-Hackensack eastwickcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 183488; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 53 | No | 1 | |
| Eastwick College-Nutley eastwickcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 185721; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 53 | No | 1 | |
| Eastwick College-Ramsey eastwickcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 184959; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 53 | No | 1 | |
| Essex County College essex.eduIPEDS UnitID 184481; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 31 | |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus fdu.eduIPEDS UnitID 184694; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus fdu.eduIPEDS UnitID 184603; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Felician University felician.eduIPEDS UnitID 184612; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Georgian Court University georgian.eduIPEDS UnitID 184773; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine hmsom.eduIPEDS UnitID 495314; 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 | 47 | No | 25 | |
| Hudson County Community College hccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 184995; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Jersey College jerseycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 455196; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Kean University kean.eduIPEDS UnitID 185262; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Keser Torah-Mayan Hatalmud mayanhatalmud.orgIPEDS UnitID 461847; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 9 | |
| Mercer County Community College mccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 185509; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 31 | |
| Middlesex College middlesexcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 185536; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Monmouth University monmouth.eduIPEDS UnitID 185572; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Montclair State University montclair.eduIPEDS UnitID 185590; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Mosdos Yaakov V'Yisroel myy.eduIPEDS UnitID 499875; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 8 | |
| New Brunswick Theological Seminary nbts.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 185758; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| New Jersey City University njcu.eduIPEDS UnitID 185129; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 1 | |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology njit.eduIPEDS UnitID 185828; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Ocean County College ocean.eduIPEDS UnitID 185873; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Passaic County Community College web.pccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 186034; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 2 | |
| Pillar College pillar.eduIPEDS UnitID 440794; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Princeton Theological Seminary ptsem.eduIPEDS UnitID 186122; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Princeton University princeton.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 186131; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Rabbi Jacob Joseph School rabbijacobjoseph.comIPEDS UnitID 384421; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 24 | Gated | 5 | |
| Rabbinical College of America rca.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 186186; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Rabbinical Seminary Mkor Chaim mkorchaim.orgIPEDS UnitID 194718; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 8 | |
| Ramapo College of New Jersey ramapo.eduIPEDS UnitID 186201; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Raritan Valley Community College raritanval.eduIPEDS UnitID 186645; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rider University rider.eduIPEDS UnitID 186283; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Rowan College at Burlington County rcbc.eduIPEDS UnitID 183877; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Rowan College of South Jersey-Cumberland Campus rcsj.eduIPEDS UnitID 184205; 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 | |
| Rowan College of South Jersey-Gloucester Campus rcsj.eduIPEDS UnitID 184791; 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 | |
| Rowan University rowan.eduIPEDS UnitID 184782; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rutgers University-Camden camden.rutgers.eduIPEDS UnitID 186371; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick newbrunswick.rutgers.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 186380; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Rutgers University-Newark newark.rutgers.eduIPEDS UnitID 186399; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Elizabeth University steu.eduIPEDS UnitID 186618; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Peter's University saintpeters.eduIPEDS UnitID 186432; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Salem Community College salemcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 186469; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 31 | |
| Seminary Bnos Chaim seminarybnoschaim.comIPEDS UnitID 491817; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 6 | |
| Seton Hall University shu.eduIPEDS UnitID 186584; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Stevens Institute of Technology stevens.eduIPEDS UnitID 186867; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Stockton University stockton.eduIPEDS UnitID 186876; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 12 | |
| Sussex County Community College sussex.eduIPEDS UnitID 247603; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 12 | |
| Talmudical Academy-New Jersey talmudicalacademynj.comIPEDS UnitID 186900; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 5 | |
| The College of New Jersey tcnj.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 187134; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Thomas Edison State University tesu.eduIPEDS UnitID 187046; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey ucc.eduIPEDS UnitID 187198; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Warren County Community College warren.eduIPEDS UnitID 245625; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| William Paterson University of New Jersey wpunj.eduIPEDS UnitID 187444; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Yeshiva Bais Aharon yeshivabaisaharon.comIPEDS UnitID 490319; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 9 | |
| Yeshiva Chemdas Hatorah yeshivachemdashatorah.comIPEDS UnitID 491622; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 6 | |
| Yeshiva Gedola Tiferes Yaakov Yitzchok yeshivatyy.comIPEDS UnitID 493716; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 32 | Gated | 9 | |
| Yeshiva Gedola Tiferes Yerachmiel yeshivagedolatiferesyerachmiel.comIPEDS UnitID 491914; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 7 | |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Keren Hatorah yeshivagedolahkerenhatorah.comIPEDS UnitID 491640; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 24 | Gated | 10 | |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Cliffwood yeshivagedolahcliffwood.comIPEDS UnitID 491710; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 7 | |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Woodlake Village yeshivaohrzechariah.comIPEDS UnitID 493707; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 27 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Shaarei Shmuel yeshivagedolahshaareishmuel.comIPEDS UnitID 488350; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 7 | |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Tiferes Boruch yeshivagedolahtiferesboruch.comIPEDS UnitID 491613; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 16 | Gated | 14 | |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Leyma yzl.eduIPEDS UnitID 476692; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 12 | |
| Yeshiva Toras Chaim ytclakewood.comIPEDS UnitID 451398; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 7 | |
| Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah yeshivayesodeihatorahlakewood.comIPEDS UnitID 481438; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 36 | Gated | 10 | |
| Yeshivas Be'er Yitzchok yeshivasbeeryitzchok.orgIPEDS UnitID 451370; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 26 | |
| Yeshivas Emek Hatorah yeshivasemekhatorah.comIPEDS UnitID 491765; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 8 | |
| Brookline College-Albuquerque brooklinecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 444088; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine burrell.eduIPEDS UnitID 488554; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carrington College-Albuquerque carrington.eduIPEDS UnitID 442602; 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 | |
| Central New Mexico Community College cnm.eduIPEDS UnitID 187532; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 22 | |
| Clovis Community College, New Mexico clovis.eduIPEDS UnitID 187639; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Eastern New Mexico University Ruidoso Branch Community College ruidoso.enmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 383996; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus enmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 187648; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus roswell.enmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 187666; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 31 | |
| Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development iaia.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 187745; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Luna Community College luna.eduIPEDS UnitID 363633; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 30 | |
| Mesalands Community College mesalands.eduIPEDS UnitID 188261; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 32 | |
| Navajo Technical University navajotech.eduIPEDS UnitID 187596; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| New Mexico Highlands University nmhu.eduIPEDS UnitID 187897; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 7 | |
| New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology nmt.eduIPEDS UnitID 187967; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| New Mexico Junior College nmjc.eduIPEDS UnitID 187903; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| New Mexico Military Institute nmmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 187912; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| New Mexico State University-Alamogordo alamogordo.nmsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 187994; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 31 | |
| New Mexico State University-Dona Ana dacc.nmsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 187620; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| New Mexico State University-Grants grants.nmsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 188021; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 30 |
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