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 2,201–2,300 of 3,954 · page 23 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico State University-Main Campus nmsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 188030; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northern New Mexico College nnmc.eduIPEDS UnitID 188058; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 23 | |
| Pima Medical Institute-Albuquerque pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 105543; 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 | |
| San Juan College sanjuancollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 188100; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Santa Fe Community College sfcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 188137; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 12 | |
| Southeast New Mexico College senmc.eduIPEDS UnitID 188003; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Southwest University of Naprapathic Medicine sunm.eduIPEDS UnitID 499981; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southwestern College, New Mexico swc.eduIPEDS UnitID 188207; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute sipi.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 188216; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| St. John's College, New Mexico sjc.eduIPEDS UnitID 245652; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 54 | No | 32 | |
| University of New Mexico-Gallup Campus gallup.unm.eduIPEDS UnitID 187958; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 15 | |
| University of New Mexico-Los Alamos Campus losalamos.unm.eduIPEDS UnitID 187976; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| University of New Mexico-Main Campus unm.eduIPEDS UnitID 187985; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| University of New Mexico-Taos Campus taos.unm.eduIPEDS UnitID 188225; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of New Mexico-Valencia County Campus valencia.unm.eduIPEDS UnitID 188049; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| University of the Southwest usw.eduIPEDS UnitID 188182; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Western New Mexico University wnmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 188304; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 30 | |
| Academy for Jewish Religion ajr.eduIPEDS UnitID 497718; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Adelphi University adelphi.eduIPEDS UnitID 188429; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences acphs.eduIPEDS UnitID 188526; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Albany Law School albanylaw.eduIPEDS UnitID 188535; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Albany Medical College amc.eduIPEDS UnitID 188580; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 75 | No | 32 | |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine einsteinmed.eduIPEDS UnitID 385415; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Alfred University alfred.eduIPEDS UnitID 188641; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service funeraleducation.orgIPEDS UnitID 188687; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 4 | |
| American Academy of Dramatic Arts-New York aada.eduIPEDS UnitID 188678; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 47 | No | 32 | |
| American Musical and Dramatic Academy amda.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 188854; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| AMG School of Nursing amg.eduIPEDS UnitID 486415; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 31 | |
| Arnot Ogden Medical Center arnothealth.orgIPEDS UnitID 188915; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Associated Beth Rivkah Schools bethrivkah.eduIPEDS UnitID 188942; 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 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Bais Binyomin Academy baisbinyominacademy.comIPEDS UnitID 128586; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 11 | |
| Bais Medrash Elyon baismedroshelyon.comIPEDS UnitID 245777; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 8 | |
| Bais Medrash of Dexter Park bmdpark.comIPEDS UnitID 495031; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | No | 8 | |
| Bank Street College of Education bankstreet.eduIPEDS UnitID 189015; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bard College bard.eduIPEDS UnitID 189088; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Barnard College barnard.eduIPEDS UnitID 189097; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Be'er Yaakov Talmudic Seminary byts.eduIPEDS UnitID 476717; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 8 | |
| Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid heichaldovid.orgIPEDS UnitID 444413; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 1 | |
| Belanger School of Nursing ellismedicine.orgIPEDS UnitID 190956; 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 | 44 | No | 32 | |
| Berkeley College-New York berkeleycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 189228; 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 | |
| Bet Medrash Gadol Ateret Torah betmedrashgadolaterettorah.comIPEDS UnitID 485999; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 5 | |
| Beth Hamedrash Shaarei Yosher Institute bhsy.eduIPEDS UnitID 189273; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 1 | |
| Beth Medrash Meor Yitzchok bethmedrashmeoryitzchok.comIPEDS UnitID 486196; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 30 | Gated | 7 | |
| Binghamton University binghamton.eduIPEDS UnitID 196079; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Bnos Zion Of Bobov Seminary bnoszionbobov.comIPEDS UnitID 491446; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 8 | |
| Boricua College boricuacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 189413; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Brooklyn Law School brooklaw.eduIPEDS UnitID 189501; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 31 | |
| Bryant & Stratton College-Albany bryantstratton.eduIPEDS UnitID 188517; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Bryant & Stratton College-Buffalo bryantstratton.eduIPEDS UnitID 189583; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Bryant & Stratton College-Greece bryantstratton.eduIPEDS UnitID 189592; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Bryant & Stratton College-Online bryantstratton.eduIPEDS UnitID 480091; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Bryant & Stratton College-Syracuse North bryantstratton.eduIPEDS UnitID 189565; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Canisius University canisius.eduIPEDS UnitID 189705; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Cayuga County Community College cayuga-cc.eduIPEDS UnitID 189839; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Yeshiva Beth Joseph centralyeshivabethjoseph.comIPEDS UnitID 488004; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 7 | |
| Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitz cyttl.eduIPEDS UnitID 189857; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 36 | Gated | 8 | |
| Clarkson University clarkson.eduIPEDS UnitID 190044; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Clinton Community College clinton.eduIPEDS UnitID 190053; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Cochran School of Nursing cochranschoolofnursing.usblockedIPEDS UnitID 190071; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School crcds.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 190080; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Colgate University colgate.eduIPEDS UnitID 190099; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| College of Staten Island CUNY csi.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190558; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 31 | |
| Columbia University in the City of New York columbia.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 190150; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Columbia-Greene Community College columbiagreene.eduIPEDS UnitID 190169; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Congregation Talmidei Mesivta Tiferes Shmiel Aleksander yeshivaaleksander.orgIPEDS UnitID 493600; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cornell University cornell.eduIPEDS UnitID 190415; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Culinary Institute of America ciachef.eduIPEDS UnitID 190503; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| CUNY Bernard M Baruch College baruch.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190512; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College bmcc.cuny.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 190521; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| CUNY Bronx Community College bcc.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190530; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| CUNY Brooklyn College brooklyn.eduIPEDS UnitID 190549; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| CUNY City College ccny.cuny.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 190567; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| CUNY Graduate School and University Center gc.cuny.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 190576; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| CUNY Hostos Community College hostos.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190585; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| CUNY Hunter College hunter.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190594; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice jjay.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190600; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| CUNY Kingsborough Community College kbcc.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190619; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| CUNY LaGuardia Community College lagcc.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190628; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 2 | |
| CUNY Lehman College lehman.eduIPEDS UnitID 190637; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| CUNY Medgar Evers College mec.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190646; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| CUNY New York City College of Technology citytech.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190655; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 31 | |
| CUNY Queens College qc.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190664; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| CUNY Queensborough Community College qcc.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190673; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| CUNY School of Law law.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190682; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| CUNY Stella and Charles Guttman Community College guttman.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 475565; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| CUNY System Office www2.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190035; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 1 | |
| CUNY York College york.cuny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190691; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| D'Youville University dyu.eduIPEDS UnitID 190716; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Daemen University daemen.eduIPEDS UnitID 190725; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Davis College, New York davisny.eduIPEDS UnitID 194569; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| DeVry College of New York devry.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 482413; 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 | — | |
| Dominican University New York duny.eduIPEDS UnitID 190761; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Dutchess Community College sunydutchess.eduIPEDS UnitID 190840; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Elim Bible Institute and College elim.eduIPEDS UnitID 488305; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Elmira College elmira.eduIPEDS UnitID 190983; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Elyon College elyon.eduIPEDS UnitID 490346; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Empire State University sunyempire.eduIPEDS UnitID 196264; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Erie Community College ecc.eduIPEDS UnitID 191083; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Excelsior University excelsior.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 196680; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Farmingdale State College farmingdale.eduIPEDS UnitID 196042; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 31 |
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