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 2,901–3,000 of 3,954 · page 30 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Bible College pacificbible.eduIPEDS UnitID 407610; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pacific University pacificu.eduIPEDS UnitID 209612; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Portland Community College pcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 209746; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 11 | |
| Portland State University pdx.eduIPEDS UnitID 209807; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Reed College reed.eduIPEDS UnitID 209922; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 24 | |
| Rogue Community College roguecc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 209940; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Southern Oregon University sou.eduIPEDS UnitID 210146; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Southwestern Oregon Community College socc.eduIPEDS UnitID 210155; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Sumner College sumnercollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 208512; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 31 | |
| Tillamook Bay Community College tillamookbaycc.eduIPEDS UnitID 420723; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Treasure Valley Community College tvcc.ccIPEDS UnitID 210234; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Umpqua Community College umpqua.eduIPEDS UnitID 210270; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Oregon uoregon.eduIPEDS UnitID 209551; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 77 | No | 32 | |
| University of Portland up.eduIPEDS UnitID 209825; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| University of Western States uws.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 210438; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Warner Pacific University warnerpacific.eduIPEDS UnitID 210304; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 67 | No | 31 | |
| Warner Pacific University Professional and Graduate Studies warnerpacific.eduIPEDS UnitID 480198; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 67 | No | 31 | |
| Western Oregon University wou.eduIPEDS UnitID 210429; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Western Seminary westernseminary.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 210368; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Willamette University willamette.eduIPEDS UnitID 210401; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Palau Community College palau.eduIPEDS UnitID 243647; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; in Palau, a US territory or freely associated state, not one of the 50 states or DC | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Albright College albright.eduIPEDS UnitID 210571; 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 | |
| All-State Career School allstatecareer.eduIPEDS UnitID 210599; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Allegheny College allegheny.eduIPEDS UnitID 210669; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Alvernia University alvernia.eduIPEDS UnitID 210775; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Arcadia University arcadia.eduIPEDS UnitID 211088; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| ASPIRA City College aspiracitycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 214023; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bryn Athyn College of the New Church brynathyn.eduIPEDS UnitID 210492; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bryn Mawr College brynmawr.eduIPEDS UnitID 211273; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Bucknell University bucknell.eduIPEDS UnitID 211291; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Bucks County Community College bucks.eduIPEDS UnitID 211307; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 27 | Gated | 32 | |
| Butler County Community College bc3.eduIPEDS UnitID 211343; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius bcs.eduIPEDS UnitID 444103; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 30 | |
| Cairn University-Langhorne cairn.eduIPEDS UnitID 215114; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carlow University carlow.eduIPEDS UnitID 211431; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carnegie Mellon University cmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 211440; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | No | 1 | |
| Cedar Crest College cedarcrest.eduIPEDS UnitID 211468; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Central Penn College centralpenn.eduIPEDS UnitID 211477; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology cpi.eduIPEDS UnitID 369668; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Chatham University chatham.eduIPEDS UnitID 211556; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Chestnut Hill College chc.eduIPEDS UnitID 211583; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Cheyney University of Pennsylvania cheyney.eduIPEDS UnitID 211608; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| Commonwealth Technical Institute dli.pa.govIPEDS UnitID 212975; 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 | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania commonwealthu.eduIPEDS UnitID 498562; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Community College of Allegheny County ccac.eduIPEDS UnitID 210605; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Community College of Beaver County ccbc.eduIPEDS UnitID 211079; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 31 | |
| Community College of Philadelphia ccp.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 215239; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Delaware County Community College dccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 211927; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Delaware Valley University delval.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 211981; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| DeSales University desales.eduIPEDS UnitID 210739; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Dickinson College dickinson.eduIPEDS UnitID 212009; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Douglas Education Center dec.eduIPEDS UnitID 212045; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | No | 1 | |
| Drexel University drexel.eduIPEDS UnitID 212054; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Duquesne University duq.eduIPEDS UnitID 212106; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania esu.eduIPEDS UnitID 212115; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Eastern University eastern.eduIPEDS UnitID 212133; 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 | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Elizabethtown College etown.eduIPEDS UnitID 212197; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Erie Institute of Technology Inc erieit.eduIPEDS UnitID 212434; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 31 | |
| Fortis Institute-Scranton fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 385503; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 20 other institutions, measured once | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Franklin and Marshall College fandm.eduIPEDS UnitID 212577; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Gannon University gannon.eduIPEDS UnitID 212601; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 31 | |
| Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine geisinger.eduIPEDS UnitID 456542; 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 | 55 | Gated | 1 | |
| Geneva College geneva.eduIPEDS UnitID 212656; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Gettysburg College gettysburg.eduIPEDS UnitID 212674; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Gratz College gratz.eduIPEDS UnitID 212771; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Great Lakes Institute of Technology glit.eduIPEDS UnitID 213181; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Gwynedd Mercy University gmercyu.eduIPEDS UnitID 212832; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Harcum College harcum.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 212869; 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 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Harrisburg Area Community College hacc.eduIPEDS UnitID 212878; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Harrisburg University of Science and Technology harrisburgu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 446640; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Haverford College haverford.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 212911; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Holy Family University holyfamily.eduIPEDS UnitID 212984; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Immaculata University immaculata.eduIPEDS UnitID 213011; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus iup.eduIPEDS UnitID 213020; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Institute of Medical Careers imbc.eduIPEDS UnitID 461218; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Jna Institute of Culinary Arts culinaryarts.eduIPEDS UnitID 419341; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 23 | |
| Johnson College johnson.eduIPEDS UnitID 213233; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Juniata College juniata.eduIPEDS UnitID 213251; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Keystone College keystone.eduIPEDS UnitID 213303; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| King's College kings.eduIPEDS UnitID 213321; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Kutztown University of Pennsylvania kutztown.eduIPEDS UnitID 213349; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| La Roche University laroche.eduIPEDS UnitID 213358; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| La Salle University lasalle.eduIPEDS UnitID 213367; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 75 | No | 32 | |
| Lackawanna College lackawanna.eduIPEDS UnitID 213376; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Lafayette College lafayette.eduIPEDS UnitID 213385; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine lecom.eduIPEDS UnitID 407629; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Lancaster Bible College lbc.eduIPEDS UnitID 213400; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lancaster County Career and Technology Center lancasterctc.eduIPEDS UnitID 418533; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Lancaster Theological Seminary lancasterseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 213446; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 1 | |
| Lansdale School of Business lsb.eduIPEDS UnitID 213473; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Laurel Business Institute laurel.eduIPEDS UnitID 250027; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Laurel Technical Institute laurel.eduIPEDS UnitID 215992; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lebanon Valley College lvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 213507; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Lehigh Carbon Community College lccc.eduIPEDS UnitID 213525; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lehigh University lehigh.eduIPEDS UnitID 213543; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Lincoln Technical Institute-Allentown lincolntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 213570; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 9 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 | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Lincoln Technical Institute-Philadelphia lincolntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 213589; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 9 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 | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Lincoln University, Pennsylvania lincoln.eduIPEDS UnitID 213598; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Luzerne County Community College luzerne.eduIPEDS UnitID 213659; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 30 | |
| Lycoming College lycoming.eduIPEDS UnitID 213668; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | 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