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.
Middle of 14 cohorts. All cohorts 50 · best cohort 58.
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.
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% |
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% |
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.
6 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
| 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 |
| 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 |
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
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 3,301–3,400 of 3,954 · page 34 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Peay State University apsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 219602; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Baptist Health Sciences University baptistu.eduIPEDS UnitID 219639; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 31 | |
| Belmont University belmont.eduIPEDS UnitID 219709; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Bethel University, Tennessee bethelu.eduIPEDS UnitID 219718; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Bryan College-Dayton bryan.eduIPEDS UnitID 219790; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Carson-Newman University cn.eduIPEDS UnitID 219806; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Chattanooga College Medical Dental and & Technical Careers chattanoogacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 220118; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 10 | |
| Chattanooga State Community College chattanoogastate.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 219824; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Christian Brothers University cbu.eduIPEDS UnitID 219833; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Cleveland State Community College clevelandstatecc.eduIPEDS UnitID 219879; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Columbia State Community College columbiastate.eduIPEDS UnitID 219888; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Concorde Career College-Memphis concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 219903; 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 | |
| Cumberland University cumberland.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 219949; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| Dyersburg State Community College dscc.eduIPEDS UnitID 220057; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| East Tennessee State University etsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 220075; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Fisk University fisk.eduIPEDS UnitID 220181; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 31 | |
| Fortis Institute-Cookeville fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 494436; 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 | |
| Fortis Institute-Nashville fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 452124; 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 | |
| Freed-Hardeman University fhu.eduIPEDS UnitID 220215; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| Galen Health Institutes-Nashville Campus galencollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 497125; 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 | — | |
| Herzing University-Nashville herzing.eduIPEDS UnitID 499149; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 other institutions, measured once | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Jackson State Community College jscc.eduIPEDS UnitID 220400; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| John A Gupton College guptoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 220464; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Johnson University johnsonu.eduIPEDS UnitID 220473; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| King University king.eduIPEDS UnitID 220516; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Lane College lanecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 220598; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Le Moyne-Owen College loc.eduIPEDS UnitID 220604; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 31 | |
| Lee University leeuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 220613; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lincoln College of Technology-Nashville lincolntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 221148; 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 Memorial University lmunet.eduIPEDS UnitID 220631; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Lipscomb University lipscomb.eduIPEDS UnitID 219976; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Maryville College maryvillecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 220710; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Meharry Medical College mmc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 220792; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Memphis Theological Seminary memphisseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 220871; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 40 | No | 32 | |
| Meridian Institute of Surgical Assisting meridian-institute.eduIPEDS UnitID 461324; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 14 | |
| Mid-South Christian College midsouthchristian.eduIPEDS UnitID 481225; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 30 | |
| Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia Inc mtsa.eduIPEDS UnitID 220996; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Middle Tennessee State University mtsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 220978; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Miller-Motte College-Chattanooga miller-motte.eduIPEDS UnitID 443650; 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 | |
| Milligan University milligan.eduIPEDS UnitID 486901; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Motlow State Community College mscc.eduIPEDS UnitID 221096; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Nashville Film Institute nfi.eduIPEDS UnitID 490115; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 31 | |
| Nashville State Community College nscc.eduIPEDS UnitID 221184; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| North Central Institute nci.eduIPEDS UnitID 418889; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Northeast State Community College northeaststate.eduIPEDS UnitID 221908; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Nossi College of Art and Design nossi.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 368452; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Omega Graduate School ogs.eduIPEDS UnitID 461120; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pellissippi State Community College pstcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 221643; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pentecostal Theological Seminary ptseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 219842; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Remington College-Memphis Campus remingtoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 412599; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 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 | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Remington College-Nashville Campus remingtoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 445249; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 10 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 | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Rhodes College rhodes.eduIPEDS UnitID 221351; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Richmont Graduate University richmont.eduIPEDS UnitID 441104; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 30 | |
| Roane State Community College roanestate.eduIPEDS UnitID 221397; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 1 | |
| SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville usa.sae.eduIPEDS UnitID 446525; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 2 | |
| South College south.eduIPEDS UnitID 220552; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Southern Adventist University southern.eduIPEDS UnitID 221661; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Southern College of Optometry sco.eduIPEDS UnitID 221670; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 30 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southwest Tennessee Community College southwest.tn.eduIPEDS UnitID 221485; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 20 | |
| Strayer University-Tennessee strayer.eduIPEDS UnitID 443766; 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 | |
| Tennessee Board of Regents tbr.eduIPEDS UnitID 409379; 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 | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Tennessee State University tnstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 221838; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Tennessee Technological University tntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 221847; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Tennessee Wesleyan University tnwesleyan.eduIPEDS UnitID 221731; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| The University of Tennessee Health Science Center uthsc.eduIPEDS UnitID 487010; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| The University of Tennessee Southern utsouthern.eduIPEDS UnitID 220701; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| The University of Tennessee System Office tennessee.eduIPEDS UnitID 492263; 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 | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga utc.eduIPEDS UnitID 221740; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| The University of Tennessee-Knoxville utk.eduIPEDS UnitID 221759; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| The University of Tennessee-Martin utm.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 221768; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| The University of the South sewanee.eduIPEDS UnitID 221519; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Trevecca Nazarene University trevecca.eduIPEDS UnitID 221892; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Tusculum University tusculum.eduIPEDS UnitID 221953; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 7 | |
| Union University uu.eduIPEDS UnitID 221971; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Memphis memphis.eduIPEDS UnitID 220862; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Vanderbilt University vanderbilt.eduIPEDS UnitID 221999; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Visible Music College visible.eduIPEDS UnitID 449764; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 4 | |
| Volunteer State Community College volstate.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 222053; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Walters State Community College ws.eduIPEDS UnitID 222062; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Welch College welch.eduIPEDS UnitID 220206; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| William R Moore College of Technology mooretech.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 222105; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Williamson Christian College williamsoncc.eduIPEDS UnitID 443340; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Abilene Christian University acu.eduIPEDS UnitID 222178; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Abilene Christian University-Undergraduate Online acu.eduIPEDS UnitID 497037; 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; 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 | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Alamo Community College District Central Office alamo.eduIPEDS UnitID 222497; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office; 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 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Alvin Community College alvincollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 222567; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Amarillo College actx.eduIPEDS UnitID 222576; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Amberton University amberton.eduIPEDS UnitID 222628; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 30 | |
| American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Med acaom.eduIPEDS UnitID 429085; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| American InterContinental University-Houston aiuniv.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 445133; 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; not measured: challenge page (Imperva) | — | No | — | |
| Angelina College angelina.eduIPEDS UnitID 222822; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Angelo State University angelo.eduIPEDS UnitID 222831; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Arizona College of Nursing-Dallas arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 494162; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 18 other institutions, measured once | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arlington Baptist University abu.eduIPEDS UnitID 222877; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Austin escoffier.eduIPEDS UnitID 444556; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 75 | No | 32 | |
| Austin College austincollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 222983; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Austin Community College District austincc.eduIPEDS UnitID 222992; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary austinseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 223001; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bakke Graduate University bgu.eduIPEDS UnitID 420705; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 31 | |
| Baptist Health System School of Health Professions bshp.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 223083; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — |
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