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 2,501–2,600 of 3,954 · page 26 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva Yesoda Hatorah Vetz Chaim yeshivayh.orgIPEDS UnitID 494737; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh yeshivazichronaryeh.comIPEDS UnitID 487746; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 31 | Gated | 5 | |
| Yeshivas Novominsk yeshivasnovominsk.comIPEDS UnitID 405058; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 5 | |
| Yeshivas Sanz Klauzenburg yeshivasanzk.orgIPEDS UnitID 498906; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Yeshivat Hechal Shemuel hechalshemuel.comIPEDS UnitID 493664; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 7 | |
| Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah shaarhatorah.eduIPEDS UnitID 197692; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 26 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yeshivath Viznitz yeshivathviznitz.comIPEDS UnitID 197735; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 23 | Gated | 6 | |
| Yeshivath Zichron Moshe yeshivathzichronmoshe.comIPEDS UnitID 197744; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 35 | Gated | 5 | |
| Alamance Community College alamancecc.eduIPEDS UnitID 199786; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Appalachian State University appstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 197869; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 30 | |
| Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College abtech.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 197887; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Barton College barton.eduIPEDS UnitID 197911; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Beaufort County Community College beaufortccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 197966; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 31 | |
| Belmont Abbey College belmontabbeycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 197984; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bennett College bennett.eduIPEDS UnitID 197993; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 39 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bladen Community College bladencc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198011; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Blue Ridge Community College, North Carolina blueridge.eduIPEDS UnitID 198039; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Brevard College brevard.eduIPEDS UnitID 198066; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Brunswick Community College brunswickcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198084; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cabarrus College of Health Sciences cabarruscollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 198109; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute cccti.eduIPEDS UnitID 198118; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Campbell University campbell.eduIPEDS UnitID 198136; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Cape Fear Community College cfcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198154; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carolina Christian College carolina.eduIPEDS UnitID 199971; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 30 | |
| Carolina College of Biblical Studies ccbs.eduIPEDS UnitID 461032; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carolina University carolinau.eduIPEDS UnitID 489937; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Carolinas College of Health Sciences carolinascollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 433174; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Carteret Community College carteret.eduIPEDS UnitID 198206; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Catawba College catawba.eduIPEDS UnitID 198215; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Catawba Valley Community College cvcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198233; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 39 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Carolina Community College cccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198251; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Central Piedmont Community College cpcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198260; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Chamberlain University-North Carolina chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 489344; 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 | |
| Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary charlottechristian.eduIPEDS UnitID 444778; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 12 | |
| Chowan University chowan.eduIPEDS UnitID 198303; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Cleveland Community College clevelandcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198321; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 30 | |
| Coastal Carolina Community College coastalcarolina.eduIPEDS UnitID 198330; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| College of the Albemarle albemarle.eduIPEDS UnitID 197814; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Craven Community College cravencc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198367; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts daoisttraditions.eduIPEDS UnitID 455178; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Davidson College davidson.eduIPEDS UnitID 198385; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Davidson-Davie Community College davidsondavie.eduIPEDS UnitID 198376; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Duke University duke.eduIPEDS UnitID 198419; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Durham Technical Community College durhamtech.eduIPEDS UnitID 198455; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| East Carolina University ecu.eduIPEDS UnitID 198464; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Edgecombe Community College edgecombe.eduIPEDS UnitID 198491; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Elizabeth City State University ecsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 198507; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Elon University elon.eduIPEDS UnitID 198516; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fayetteville State University uncfsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 198543; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Fayetteville Technical Community College faytechcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198534; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 31 | |
| Forsyth Technical Community College forsythtech.eduIPEDS UnitID 198552; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Galen Health Institutes-Asheville galencollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 498119; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 19 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; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Gardner-Webb University gardner-webb.eduIPEDS UnitID 198561; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Gaston College gaston.eduIPEDS UnitID 198570; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Greensboro College greensboro.eduIPEDS UnitID 198598; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Guilford College guilford.eduIPEDS UnitID 198613; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Guilford Technical Community College gtcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198622; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Halifax Community College halifaxcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198640; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Haywood Community College haywood.eduIPEDS UnitID 198668; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Heritage Bible College heritagebiblecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 198677; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| High Point University highpoint.eduIPEDS UnitID 198695; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hood Theological Seminary hoodseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 443076; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 32 | |
| Isothermal Community College isothermal.eduIPEDS UnitID 198710; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| James Sprunt Community College jamessprunt.eduIPEDS UnitID 198729; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte jwu.eduIPEDS UnitID 445708; 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 | 38 | No | 1 | |
| Johnson C Smith University jcsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 198756; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Johnston Community College johnstoncc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198774; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine jungtao.eduIPEDS UnitID 461139; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Lees-McRae College lmc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198808; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Lenoir Community College lenoircc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198817; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 31 | |
| Lenoir-Rhyne University lr.eduIPEDS UnitID 198835; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Livingstone College livingstone.eduIPEDS UnitID 198862; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 30 | Gated | 27 | |
| Louisburg College louisburg.eduIPEDS UnitID 198871; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 30 | |
| Manna University manna.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 461528; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Mars Hill University mhu.eduIPEDS UnitID 198899; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Martin Community College martincc.eduIPEDS UnitID 198905; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mayland Community College mayland.eduIPEDS UnitID 198914; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| McDowell Technical Community College mcdowelltech.eduIPEDS UnitID 198923; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 30 | |
| Meredith College meredith.eduIPEDS UnitID 198950; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Methodist University methodist.eduIPEDS UnitID 198969; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Mid-Atlantic Christian University macuniversity.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 199458; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Miller-Motte College-Fayetteville miller-motte.eduIPEDS UnitID 458405; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Miller-Motte College-Jacksonville miller-motte.eduIPEDS UnitID 460817; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Miller-Motte College-Raleigh miller-motte.eduIPEDS UnitID 456205; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Miller-Motte College-Wilmington miller-motte.eduIPEDS UnitID 198978; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Mitchell Community College mitchellcc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 198987; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| Montgomery Community College montgomery.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 199023; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| Montreat College montreat.eduIPEDS UnitID 199032; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| MyComputerCareer at Raleigh mycomputercareer.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 480037; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| NASCAR Technical Institute uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 442611; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Nash Community College nashcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 199087; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 31 | |
| North Carolina A & T State University ncat.eduIPEDS UnitID 199102; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| North Carolina Central University nccu.eduIPEDS UnitID 199157; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh ncsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 199193; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| North Carolina Wesleyan University ncwu.eduIPEDS UnitID 199209; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Pamlico Community College pamlicocc.eduIPEDS UnitID 199263; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Pfeiffer University pfeiffer.eduIPEDS UnitID 199306; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Piedmont Community College piedmontcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 199324; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pitt Community College pittcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 199333; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Queens University of Charlotte queens.eduIPEDS UnitID 199412; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | 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