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.

Index 12.0 · scanned 2026-10-11 · up to 32 URLs per site · 3954 organizations · 3553 scanned (89.9% coverage) · scored as higher-ed

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)
LicenseA work of the United States federal government. Not subject to domestic copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105).
How we filtered itEvery 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 ofThe US News ranking, a copyrighted compilation we may read but not relicense, which ranks prestige rather than describing the population.
Built2026-10-11

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

GradeShare of the cohort SitesShare
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.

DimensionMean 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 6 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more
TestWhat it asks FailingOf Points
ACT-3 If you have a public API, is it described in a standard file?
100.0%
3 2
EXT-12 Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes?
100.0%
3553 0
EXT-15 Can an AI agent find out how to sign in to your site?
100.0%
3 0
EXT-16 Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run?
100.0%
3553 0
EXT-17 Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records?
100.0%
3345 0
EXT-7 If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such?
100.0%
231 0
Near-universal — 95% and above 9 checks · 2 of them worth 2 points or more
TestWhat it asks FailingOf Points
EXT-11 Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question?
99.8%
3553 0
EXT-2 Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them?
99.8%
401 0
EXT-14 Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools?
99.6%
3449 0
EXT-18 Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay?
99.5%
208 0
RED-10 Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages?
99.5%
3132 2
PST-2 Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content?
99.4%
3553 0
RED-12 If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it?
98.9%
3553 2
RED-5 Do your PDFs and images have their own rules for search and quoting?
97.8%
3019 1
UND-5 Does the author label in your page code point to that person?
96.8%
2984 1
Common — 90 to 95% 2 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more
TestWhat it asks FailingOf Points
UND-2 Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish?
91.8%
3511 3
EXT-1 Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants?
91.7%
3553 0

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 3,001–3,100 of 3,954 · page 31 of 40

SiteScore GatedPages read Report
Manor College manor.eduIPEDS UnitID 213774; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 32
Marywood University marywood.eduIPEDS UnitID 213826; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 No 32
Mercyhurst University mercyhurst.eduIPEDS UnitID 213987; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 No 32
Messiah University messiah.eduIPEDS UnitID 213996; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 No 32
Miller-Motte College-Berks Technical Institute berks.eduIPEDS UnitID 213534; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
Miller-Motte College-Berks Technical Institute-Allentown berks.eduIPEDS UnitID 456579; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
Miller-Motte College-Berks Technical Institute-Lewisburg berks.eduIPEDS UnitID 438221; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
Millersville University of Pennsylvania millersville.eduIPEDS UnitID 214041; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
Misericordia University misericordia.eduIPEDS UnitID 214069; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Missio Theological Seminary missio.eduIPEDS UnitID 211130; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 52 No 32
Montgomery County Community College mc3.eduIPEDS UnitID 214111; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 No 32
Moore College of Art and Design moore.eduIPEDS UnitID 214148; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Moravian University moravian.eduIPEDS UnitID 214157; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 69 No 32
Mount Aloysius College mtaloy.eduIPEDS UnitID 214166; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 28 Gated 1
Muhlenberg College muhlenberg.eduIPEDS UnitID 214175; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
Neumann University neumann.eduIPEDS UnitID 214272; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
New Castle School of Trades ncstrades.eduIPEDS UnitID 214290; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 37 Gated 32
Northampton County Area Community College northampton.eduIPEDS UnitID 214379; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
Orleans Technical College orleanstech.eduIPEDS UnitID 214528; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 29 Gated 32
Peirce College peirce.eduIPEDS UnitID 214883; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 1
Penn Commercial Business/Technical School penncommercial.eduIPEDS UnitID 214892; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 Gated 31
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts pafa.orgIPEDS UnitID 214971; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 No 32
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design pcad.eduIPEDS UnitID 215053; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 Gated 32
Pennsylvania College of Technology pct.eduIPEDS UnitID 366252; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College pennhighlands.eduIPEDS UnitID 414911; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 1
Pennsylvania Institute of Technology pit.eduIPEDS UnitID 214582; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 Gated 32
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education-Central Office passhe.eduIPEDS UnitID 214661; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office 64 No 27
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus psu.eduIPEDS UnitID 214777; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington abington.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214801; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Altoona altoona.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214689; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Beaver beaver.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214698; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks berks.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214704; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Brandywine brandywine.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214731; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State DuBois dubois.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214740; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College behrend.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214591; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Fayette- Eberly fayette.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214759; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley greatvalley.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214607; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Greater Allegheny greaterallegheny.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214786; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg harrisburg.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214713; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Hazleton hazleton.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214768; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Lehigh Valley lehighvalley.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214670; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Mont Alto montalto.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214795; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State New Kensington newkensington.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214625; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Schuylkill schuylkill.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214810; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Scranton scranton.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214652; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Shenango shenango.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214634; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Wilkes-Barre wilkesbarre.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214643; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State York york.psu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 214829; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Pennsylvania State University-World Campus worldcampus.psu.eduIPEDS UnitID 479956; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office 74 No 32
Pennsylvania Western University pennwest.eduIPEDS UnitID 498571; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine pcom.eduIPEDS UnitID 215123; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 32
PITC Institute pitc.eduIPEDS UnitID 444811; 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 61 No 32
Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics pia.eduIPEDS UnitID 215381; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science Inc pims.eduIPEDS UnitID 215390; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 No 32
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary pts.eduIPEDS UnitID 215424; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 Gated 32
Point Park University pointpark.eduIPEDS UnitID 215442; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 67 No 32
Reading Area Community College racc.eduIPEDS UnitID 215585; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College rrc.eduIPEDS UnitID 215619; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 72 No 32
Robert Morris University rmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 215655; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 No 32
Rosedale Technical College rosedaletech.eduIPEDS UnitID 215682; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 Gated 32
Rosemont College rosemont.eduIPEDS UnitID 215691; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 No 31
Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary-Overbrook scs.eduIPEDS UnitID 216047; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
Saint Francis University francis.eduIPEDS UnitID 215743; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
Saint Joseph's University - Lancaster sju.eduIPEDS UnitID 442356; 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 57 No 32
Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia sju.eduIPEDS UnitID 215770; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 57 No 32
Saint Vincent College stvincent.eduIPEDS UnitID 215798; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
Saint Vincent Seminary saintvincentseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 215813; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office 54 No 13
Salus University salus.eduIPEDS UnitID 214564; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 No 32
Seton Hill University setonhill.eduIPEDS UnitID 215947; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 76 No 32
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ship.eduIPEDS UnitID 216010; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania sru.eduIPEDS UnitID 216038; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 50 No 32
South Hills School of Business & Technology southhills.eduIPEDS UnitID 216083; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 Gated 32
Strayer University-Pennsylvania strayer.eduIPEDS UnitID 443784; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 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 67 No 32
Susquehanna University susqu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 216278; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Swarthmore College swarthmore.eduIPEDS UnitID 216287; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 No 1
Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia meterware.comIPEDS UnitID 216311; 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 68 No 1
Temple University temple.eduIPEDS UnitID 216339; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 41 Gated 32
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology stevenscollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 216296; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church reseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 216348; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 36 Gated 1
Thiel College thiel.eduIPEDS UnitID 216357; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 No 1
Thomas Jefferson University jefferson.eduIPEDS UnitID 216366; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 No 1
Triangle Tech Inc-Bethlehem triangle-tech.eduIPEDS UnitID 448859; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once 65 No 1
Triangle Tech Inc-Dubois triangle-tech.eduIPEDS UnitID 216454; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once 65 No 1
Triangle Tech Inc-Greensburg triangle-tech.eduIPEDS UnitID 216445; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once 65 No 1
Triangle Tech Inc-Pittsburgh triangle-tech.eduIPEDS UnitID 216436; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once 65 No 1
Triangle Tech Inc-Sunbury triangle-tech.eduIPEDS UnitID 443377; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once 65 No 1
Triangle Tech-Chambersburg triangle-tech.eduIPEDS UnitID 496265; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once 65 No 1
Trinity Anglican Seminary tas.eduIPEDS UnitID 216463; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
United Lutheran Seminary unitedlutheranseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 213631; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 No 32
Universal Technical Institute of Pennsylvania Inc uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 445799; 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
University of Pennsylvania upenn.eduIPEDS UnitID 215062; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
University of Pittsburgh-Bradford upb.pitt.eduIPEDS UnitID 215266; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg greensburg.pitt.eduIPEDS UnitID 215275; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 32
University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown upj.pitt.eduIPEDS UnitID 215284; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 2
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus pitt.eduIPEDS UnitID 215293; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 Gated 32
University of Pittsburgh-Titusville titusville.pitt.eduIPEDS UnitID 215309; 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 56 Gated 31
University of Scranton scranton.eduIPEDS UnitID 215929; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
University of Valley Forge valleyforge.eduIPEDS UnitID 216542; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
Ursinus College ursinus.eduIPEDS UnitID 216524; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 No 19
Valley Forge Military College vfmac.eduIPEDS UnitID 216551; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 50 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