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 2,301–2,400 of 3,954 · page 24 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fashion Institute of Technology fitnyc.eduIPEDS UnitID 191126; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Finger Lakes Community College flcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 191199; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Five Towns College ftc.eduIPEDS UnitID 191205; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Fordham University fordham.eduIPEDS UnitID 191241; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Fulton-Montgomery Community College fmcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 191302; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Genesee Community College genesee.eduIPEDS UnitID 191339; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Hamilton College hamilton.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 191515; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| Hartwick College hartwick.eduIPEDS UnitID 191533; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion huc.eduIPEDS UnitID 203067; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Helene Fuld College of Nursing helenefuld.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 191597; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Herkimer County Community College herkimer.eduIPEDS UnitID 191612; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hilbert College hilbert.eduIPEDS UnitID 191621; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership uts.eduIPEDS UnitID 246789; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Hobart William Smith Colleges hws.eduIPEDS UnitID 191630; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Hofstra University hofstra.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 191649; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Houghton University houghton.eduIPEDS UnitID 191676; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Hudson Valley Community College hvcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 191719; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai icahn.mssm.eduIPEDS UnitID 193405; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 35 | Gated | 32 | |
| IE New York College ienyc.eduIPEDS UnitID 494551; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Iona University iona.eduIPEDS UnitID 191931; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Island Drafting and Technical Institute idti.eduIPEDS UnitID 191959; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ithaca College ithaca.eduIPEDS UnitID 191968; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Jamestown Business College jbc.eduIPEDS UnitID 192004; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Jamestown Community College sunyjcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 191986; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Jefferson Community College sunyjefferson.eduIPEDS UnitID 192022; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America jtsa.eduIPEDS UnitID 192040; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Kehilath Yakov Rabbinical Seminary kehilathyakov.comIPEDS UnitID 192165; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 1 | |
| Keuka College keuka.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 192192; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Le Moyne College lemoyne.eduIPEDS UnitID 192323; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| LIM College limcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 192271; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Long Island University liu.eduIPEDS UnitID 192448; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Machzikei Hadath Rabbinical College mhrc.eduIPEDS UnitID 192624; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 8 | |
| Mandl School-The College of Allied Health mandl.eduIPEDS UnitID 192688; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Manhattan School of Music msmnyc.eduIPEDS UnitID 192712; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Manhattan University manhattan.eduIPEDS UnitID 192703; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Manhattanville University mville.eduIPEDS UnitID 192749; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Maria College of Albany mariacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 192785; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Marist University marist.eduIPEDS UnitID 192819; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Marymount Manhattan College mmm.eduIPEDS UnitID 192864; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mechon L'hoyroa mechonlhoyroa.comIPEDS UnitID 490328; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 7 | |
| Mercy University mercy.eduIPEDS UnitID 193016; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Mesivta of Eastern Parkway-Yeshiva Zichron Meilech mesivtaofeasternparkway.comIPEDS UnitID 193061; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 26 | Gated | 6 | |
| Mesivta Torah Vodaath Rabbinical Seminary independentrabbinicalcolleges.orgIPEDS UnitID 193052; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 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 | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem of America mtj.eduIPEDS UnitID 193070; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 14 | |
| Metropolitan College of New York mcny.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 190114; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Mildred Elley School-Albany Campus mildred-elley.eduIPEDS UnitID 193201; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 49 | Gated | 30 | |
| Mildred Elley-New York Campus mildred-elley.eduIPEDS UnitID 461014; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 49 | Gated | 30 | |
| Mirrer Yeshiva Cent Institute mirreryeshiva.comIPEDS UnitID 193247; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mohawk Valley Community College mvcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 193283; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Molloy University molloy.eduIPEDS UnitID 193292; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Monroe Community College monroecc.eduIPEDS UnitID 193326; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Monroe University monroecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 193308; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 1 | |
| Montefiore School of Nursing montefiorenewrochelle.orgIPEDS UnitID 193380; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; the address IPEDS carries pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mount Saint Mary College msmc.eduIPEDS UnitID 193353; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing pson.eduIPEDS UnitID 189282; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nassau Community College ncc.eduIPEDS UnitID 193478; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Nazareth University www2.naz.eduIPEDS UnitID 193584; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| New York Academy of Art nyaa.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 366368; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| New York Automotive and Diesel Institute nyadi.eduIPEDS UnitID 440262; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 30 | |
| New York College of Podiatric Medicine nycpm.eduIPEDS UnitID 194073; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 1 | |
| New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine nyctcm.eduIPEDS UnitID 439783; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 31 | |
| New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts nycda.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 421841; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| New York Institute of Technology nyit.eduIPEDS UnitID 194091; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| New York Law School nyls.eduIPEDS UnitID 193821; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| New York Medical College nymc.eduIPEDS UnitID 193830; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| New York School for Medical and Dental Assistants nysmda.comIPEDS UnitID 193858; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| New York School of Interior Design nysid.eduIPEDS UnitID 194116; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| New York Seminary thenyseminary.comIPEDS UnitID 493798; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 9 | |
| New York University nyu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 193900; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| Niagara County Community College niagaracc.suny.eduIPEDS UnitID 193946; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 4 | |
| Niagara University niagara.eduIPEDS UnitID 193973; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| North Country Community College nccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 194028; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Northeast College of Health Sciences northeastcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 193751; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Northeastern Seminary nes.eduIPEDS UnitID 439817; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Ohel Margulia Seminary ohelmarguliaseminary.comIPEDS UnitID 493646; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | No | 7 | |
| Ohr Hameir Theological Seminary ohrhameir.comIPEDS UnitID 194189; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 5 | |
| Onondaga Community College sunyocc.eduIPEDS UnitID 194222; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Orange County Community College sunyorange.eduIPEDS UnitID 194240; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Pace University pace.eduIPEDS UnitID 194310; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Pacific College of Health and Science, New York pacificcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 414595; 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 | |
| Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science paulsmiths.eduIPEDS UnitID 194392; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| Plaza College plazacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 194499; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 31 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pomeroy College of Nursing at Crouse Hospital crouse.orgIPEDS UnitID 190451; 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 | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Pratt Institute-Main pratt.eduIPEDS UnitID 194578; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Rabbinical Academy Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin rabbinicalacademyrabbichaimberlin.comIPEDS UnitID 194657; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 32 | Gated | 6 | |
| Rabbinical College Beth Shraga rabbinicalcollegebethshraga.comIPEDS UnitID 194693; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 6 | |
| Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion rabbinicalcollegeboboveryeshiva.eduIPEDS UnitID 194666; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 5 | |
| Rabbinical College of Long Island rabbinicalcollegelongisland.comIPEDS UnitID 194736; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rabbinical College of Ohr Shimon Yisroel ohr-sy.comIPEDS UnitID 405854; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 4 | |
| Rabbinical College Ohr Yisroel rabbinicalcollegeohryisroel.comIPEDS UnitID 484871; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rabbinical Seminary of America rabbinical.orgIPEDS UnitID 194763; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 4 | |
| Relay Graduate School of Education relay.eduIPEDS UnitID 475033; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute rpi.eduIPEDS UnitID 194824; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Roberts Wesleyan University roberts.eduIPEDS UnitID 194958; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology rit.eduIPEDS UnitID 195003; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Rockland Community College sunyrockland.eduIPEDS UnitID 195058; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | Gated | 32 | |
| Russell Sage College sage.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 195128; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Saint Elizabeth College of Nursing secon.eduIPEDS UnitID 195702; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary svots.eduIPEDS UnitID 195580; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing sphp.comIPEDS UnitID 195289; 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 | 67 | No | 27 |
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