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 2,801–2,900 of 3,954 · page 29 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Akron Main Campus uakron.eduIPEDS UnitID 200800; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Akron Wayne College wayne.uakron.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 200846; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash College ucblueash.eduIPEDS UnitID 201955; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 76 | No | 32 | |
| University of Cincinnati-Clermont College ucclermont.eduIPEDS UnitID 201946; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 75 | No | 32 | |
| University of Cincinnati-Main Campus uc.eduIPEDS UnitID 201885; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| University of Dayton udayton.eduIPEDS UnitID 202480; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 13 | |
| University of Mount Union mountunion.eduIPEDS UnitID 204185; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| University of Northwestern Ohio unoh.eduIPEDS UnitID 204486; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| University of Rio Grande rio.eduIPEDS UnitID 205203; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Toledo utoledo.eduIPEDS UnitID 206084; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Ursuline College ursuline.eduIPEDS UnitID 206349; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Valley College-Cleveland valley.eduIPEDS UnitID 494250; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Valor Christian College valorcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 486257; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Walsh University walsh.eduIPEDS UnitID 206437; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Washington State College of Ohio wsco.eduIPEDS UnitID 206446; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Wilberforce University wilberforce.eduIPEDS UnitID 206491; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 29 | Gated | 32 | |
| Wilmington College wilmington.eduIPEDS UnitID 206507; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Winebrenner Theological Seminary winebrenner.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 206516; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Wittenberg University wittenberg.eduIPEDS UnitID 206525; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Wright State University-Lake Campus lake.wright.eduIPEDS UnitID 206613; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Wright State University-Main Campus wright.eduIPEDS UnitID 206604; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Xavier University xavier.eduIPEDS UnitID 206622; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Youngstown State University ysu.eduIPEDS UnitID 206695; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Zane State College zanestate.eduIPEDS UnitID 204255; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| ATA College, Oklahoma ata.eduIPEDS UnitID 449728; 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 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Cameron University cameron.eduIPEDS UnitID 206914; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Carl Albert State College carlalbert.eduIPEDS UnitID 206923; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Central Oklahoma College centraloc.eduIPEDS UnitID 206932; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 31 | |
| Clary Sage College clarysagecollege.comblockedIPEDS UnitID 450401; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| College of the Muscogee Nation cmn.eduIPEDS UnitID 480967; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 31 | |
| Community Care College communitycarecollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 439570; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Connors State College connorsstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 206996; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 28 | |
| East Central University ecok.eduIPEDS UnitID 207041; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 29 | |
| Eastern Oklahoma State College eosc.eduIPEDS UnitID 207050; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Family of Faith Christian University familyoffaith.eduIPEDS UnitID 443058; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 32 | |
| Langston University langston.eduIPEDS UnitID 207209; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Mid-America Christian University macu.eduIPEDS UnitID 245953; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 29 | |
| Miller-Motte College-Tulsa miller-motte.eduIPEDS UnitID 245962; 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 | |
| Murray State College mscok.eduIPEDS UnitID 207236; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College neo.eduIPEDS UnitID 207290; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northeastern State University nsuok.eduIPEDS UnitID 207263; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Northern Oklahoma College noc.eduIPEDS UnitID 207281; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | No | 32 | |
| Northwestern Oklahoma State University nwosu.eduIPEDS UnitID 207306; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Oklahoma Baptist University okbu.eduIPEDS UnitID 207403; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Oklahoma Christian University oc.eduIPEDS UnitID 207324; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oklahoma City Community College occc.eduIPEDS UnitID 207449; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 31 | |
| Oklahoma City University okcu.eduIPEDS UnitID 207458; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Oklahoma Panhandle State University opsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 207351; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences medicine.okstate.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 207315; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology osuit.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 207564; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Oklahoma State University-Main Campus okstate.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 207388; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City osuokc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 207397; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Oklahoma Technical College oklahomatechnicalcollege.comblockedIPEDS UnitID 469629; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Oklahoma Wesleyan University okwu.eduIPEDS UnitID 206835; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oral Roberts University oru.eduIPEDS UnitID 207582; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Phillips Theological Seminary ptstulsa.eduIPEDS UnitID 414966; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Randall University ru.eduIPEDS UnitID 207157; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Redlands Community College redlandscc.eduIPEDS UnitID 207069; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Rogers State University rsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 207661; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rose State College rose.eduIPEDS UnitID 207670; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Seminole State College sscok.eduIPEDS UnitID 207740; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southeastern Oklahoma State University se.eduIPEDS UnitID 207847; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Southern Nazarene University snu.eduIPEDS UnitID 206862; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Southwestern Christian University swcu.eduIPEDS UnitID 207856; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Southwestern Oklahoma State University swosu.eduIPEDS UnitID 207865; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology, Oklahoma spartan.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 207254; 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 | — | |
| Tulsa Community College tulsacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 207935; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Tulsa Welding School-Tulsa tws.eduIPEDS UnitID 207962; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| University of Central Oklahoma uco.eduIPEDS UnitID 206941; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences Center ouhsc.eduIPEDS UnitID 207342; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 8 | |
| University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus ou.eduIPEDS UnitID 207500; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 21 | |
| University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma usao.eduIPEDS UnitID 207722; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| University of Tulsa utulsa.eduIPEDS UnitID 207971; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Western Oklahoma State College wosc.eduIPEDS UnitID 208035; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| American College of Healthcare Sciences achs.eduIPEDS UnitID 443599; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Blue Mountain Community College bluecc.eduIPEDS UnitID 208275; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bushnell University bushnell.eduIPEDS UnitID 209409; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Oregon Community College cocc.eduIPEDS UnitID 208318; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Chemeketa Community College chemeketa.eduIPEDS UnitID 208390; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Clackamas Community College clackamas.eduIPEDS UnitID 208406; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Clatsop Community College clatsopcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 208415; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Columbia Gorge Community College cgcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 420556; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Concorde Career College-Portland concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 208479; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 15 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 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Corban University corban.eduIPEDS UnitID 210331; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Eastern Oregon University eou.eduIPEDS UnitID 208646; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| George Fox University georgefox.eduIPEDS UnitID 208822; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 31 | |
| Klamath Community College klamathcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 428392; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lane Community College lanecc.eduIPEDS UnitID 209038; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Lewis & Clark College lclark.eduIPEDS UnitID 209056; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Linfield University linfield.eduIPEDS UnitID 209065; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Linn-Benton Community College linnbenton.eduIPEDS UnitID 209074; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 30 | |
| Mount Angel Seminary mountangelabbey.orgIPEDS UnitID 209241; 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 | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Mt Hood Community College mhcc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 209250; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| National University of Natural Medicine nunm.eduIPEDS UnitID 209296; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 31 | |
| New Hope Christian College-Eugene newhope.eduIPEDS UnitID 208725; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oregon Coast Community College oregoncoastcc.orgIPEDS UnitID 423652; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Oregon Health & Science University ohsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 209490; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Oregon Institute of Technology oit.eduIPEDS UnitID 209506; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Oregon State University oregonstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 209542; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Oregon State University-Cascades Campus osucascades.eduIPEDS UnitID 440828; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | 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