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 2,401–2,500 of 3,954 · page 25 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Lawrence College sarahlawrence.eduIPEDS UnitID 195304; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Schenectady County Community College sunysccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 195322; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| School of Visual Arts sva.eduIPEDS UnitID 197151; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Seminar L'moros Bais Yaakov seminarlmorosbaisyaakov.comIPEDS UnitID 386153; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 10 | |
| Sh'or Yoshuv Rabbinical College shoryoshuv.orgIPEDS UnitID 195438; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Siena College siena.eduIPEDS UnitID 195474; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Skidmore College skidmore.eduIPEDS UnitID 195526; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sotheby's Institute of Art-NY sothebysinstitute.comblockedIPEDS UnitID 481094; 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 | — | |
| St Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry stbernards.eduIPEDS UnitID 195155; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| St Bonaventure University sbu.eduIPEDS UnitID 195164; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| St Lawrence University stlawu.eduIPEDS UnitID 195216; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| St Paul's School of Nursing-Queens stpaulsschoolofnursing.eduIPEDS UnitID 189811; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| St Paul's School of Nursing-Staten Island stpaulsschoolofnursing.eduIPEDS UnitID 195784; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| St. Francis College sfc.eduIPEDS UnitID 195173; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 31 | |
| St. John Fisher University sjf.eduIPEDS UnitID 195720; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| St. John's University-New York stjohns.eduIPEDS UnitID 195809; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| St. Joseph's College of Nursing sjhcon.eduIPEDS UnitID 195191; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | No | 32 | |
| St. Joseph's University-New York sjny.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 195544; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| St. Peter's Hospital College of Nursing sphp.comIPEDS UnitID 192961; 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 | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas College stac.eduIPEDS UnitID 195243; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| State University of New York at Cortland www2.cortland.eduIPEDS UnitID 196149; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| State University of New York at New Paltz newpaltz.eduIPEDS UnitID 196176; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 1 | |
| State University of New York at Oswego oswego.eduIPEDS UnitID 196194; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| State University of New York at Plattsburgh plattsburgh.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 196246; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Stony Brook University stonybrook.eduIPEDS UnitID 196097; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Suffolk County Community College sunysuffolk.eduIPEDS UnitID 366395; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Sullivan County Community College sunysullivan.eduIPEDS UnitID 195988; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY Adirondack sunyacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 188438; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY at Fredonia fredonia.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 196158; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| SUNY at Purchase College purchase.eduIPEDS UnitID 196219; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY Brockport brockport.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 196121; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| SUNY Broome Community College sunybroome.eduIPEDS UnitID 189547; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| SUNY Buffalo State University suny.buffalostate.eduIPEDS UnitID 196130; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY College at Geneseo geneseo.eduIPEDS UnitID 196167; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY College at Potsdam potsdam.eduIPEDS UnitID 196200; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill cobleskill.eduIPEDS UnitID 196033; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry esf.eduIPEDS UnitID 196103; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY College of Optometry sunyopt.eduIPEDS UnitID 196228; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY College of Technology at Alfred alfredstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 196006; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY College of Technology at Canton canton.eduIPEDS UnitID 196015; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY College of Technology at Delhi delhi.eduIPEDS UnitID 196024; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY Corning Community College corning-cc.eduIPEDS UnitID 190442; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University downstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 196255; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| SUNY Maritime College sunymaritime.eduIPEDS UnitID 196291; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY Morrisville morrisville.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 196051; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| SUNY Old Westbury oldwestbury.eduIPEDS UnitID 196237; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY Oneonta suny.oneonta.eduIPEDS UnitID 196185; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY Polytechnic Institute sunypoly.eduIPEDS UnitID 196112; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| SUNY Westchester Community College sunywcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 197294; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| SUNY-System Office suny.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 195827; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Swedish Institute a College of Health Sciences swedishinstitute.eduIPEDS UnitID 196389; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Syracuse University syracuse.eduIPEDS UnitID 196413; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York tiuny.orgIPEDS UnitID 196440; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 28 | |
| Talmudical Seminary of Bobov independentrabbinicalcolleges.orgIPEDS UnitID 451404; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah tsot.eduIPEDS UnitID 196431; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Teachers College at Columbia University tc.columbia.eduIPEDS UnitID 196468; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 18 | |
| The College of Westchester cw.eduIPEDS UnitID 197285; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art cooper.eduIPEDS UnitID 190372; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| The Juilliard School juilliard.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 192110; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| The New School newschool.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 193654; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Tompkins Cortland Community College tompkinscortland.eduIPEDS UnitID 196565; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Torah Temimah Talmudical Seminary torahtemimahtalmudicalseminary.comIPEDS UnitID 196583; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 6 | |
| Touro University touro.eduIPEDS UnitID 196592; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Trocaire College trocaire.eduIPEDS UnitID 196653; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 32 | |
| Ulster County Community College sunyulster.eduIPEDS UnitID 196699; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 30 | |
| Union College union.eduIPEDS UnitID 196866; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York utsnyc.eduIPEDS UnitID 196884; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| United States Merchant Marine Academy usmma.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 197027; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Akamai) | — | No | — | |
| United Talmudical Seminary utsny.eduIPEDS UnitID 197018; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| University at Albany albany.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 196060; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| University at Buffalo buffalo.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 196088; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Akamai) | — | No | — | |
| University of Mount Saint Vincent mountsaintvincent.eduIPEDS UnitID 193399; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| University of Rochester rochester.eduIPEDS UnitID 195030; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 14 | |
| Upstate Medical University upstate.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 196307; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Uta Mesivta of Kiryas Joel utam.eduIPEDS UnitID 446604; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 8 | |
| Utica University utica.eduIPEDS UnitID 197045; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 30 | |
| Vassar College vassar.eduIPEDS UnitID 197133; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology vaughn.eduIPEDS UnitID 188340; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Villa Maria College villa.eduIPEDS UnitID 197142; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 31 | |
| Wagner College wagner.eduIPEDS UnitID 197197; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| Webb Institute webb.eduIPEDS UnitID 197221; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University weill.cornell.eduIPEDS UnitID 190424; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Yeshiva D'monsey Rabbinical College yeshivadmonsey.comIPEDS UnitID 420325; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 6 | |
| Yeshiva Derech Chaim ydc.eduIPEDS UnitID 197647; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Imrei Yosef D'spinka spinka58st.comIPEDS UnitID 375230; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Kesser Torah yeshivagedolahkessertorah.comIPEDS UnitID 481410; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 5 | |
| Yeshiva Karlin Stolin yeshivakarlinstolin.orgIPEDS UnitID 197601; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Yeshiva Kollel Tifereth Elizer yeshivakolleltiferethelizer.comIPEDS UnitID 491057; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 10 | |
| Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Derech Ayson Rabbinical Seminary yofr.orgIPEDS UnitID 190752; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 22 | |
| Yeshiva of Kasho yokny.orgIPEDS UnitID 498809; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 27 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yeshiva of Machzikai Hadas yeshivaofmachzikaihadas.comIPEDS UnitID 455257; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 5 | |
| Yeshiva of Nitra Rabbinical College yeshivaofnitra.orgIPEDS UnitID 197674; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 10 | |
| Yeshiva of Ocean yeshivaofocean.comIPEDS UnitID 493594; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 6 | |
| Yeshiva of the Telshe Alumni yeshivatelshealumni.comIPEDS UnitID 431983; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 5 | |
| Yeshiva Ohr Naftoli yeshivaohrnaftoli.comIPEDS UnitID 490504; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 9 | |
| Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael yoy.eduIPEDS UnitID 486017; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Yeshiva Shaar Ephraim shaarephraim.orgIPEDS UnitID 490276; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland yst.eduIPEDS UnitID 441609; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 10 | |
| Yeshiva Sholom Shachna yeshivasholomshachna.comIPEDS UnitID 486026; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 16 | |
| Yeshiva University yu.eduIPEDS UnitID 197708; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | 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