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 3,401–3,500 of 3,954 · page 35 of 40

SiteScore GatedPages read Report
Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary bmats.eduIPEDS UnitID 223117; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 No 32
Baptist University of the Americas bua.eduIPEDS UnitID 444398; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 52 Gated 32
Baylor College of Medicine bcm.eduIPEDS UnitID 223223; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
Baylor University baylor.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 223232; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Blinn College District blinn.eduIPEDS UnitID 223427; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 Gated 32
Brazosport College brazosport.eduIPEDS UnitID 223506; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 Gated 32
Brite Divinity School brite.eduIPEDS UnitID 450304; 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 69 No 32
Center for Advanced Legal Studies paralegal.eduIPEDS UnitID 379782; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 70 No 32
Central Texas College ctcd.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 223816; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Chamberlain University-Texas chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 466930; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 15 other institutions, measured once 65 Gated 32
Christ Mission College cmctx.eduIPEDS UnitID 494630; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
Cisco College cisco.eduIPEDS UnitID 223898; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 69 No 32
Clarendon College clarendoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 223922; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 Gated 29
Coastal Bend College coastalbend.eduIPEDS UnitID 223320; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 24
College of Biblical Studies-Houston cbshouston.eduIPEDS UnitID 388520; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 72 No 32
College of Health Care Professions chcp.eduIPEDS UnitID 379746; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 8 other institutions, measured once 60 No 32
College of the Mainland com.eduIPEDS UnitID 226408; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 72 No 32
Collin County Community College District collin.eduIPEDS UnitID 247834; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 28 Gated 1
Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service commonwealth.eduIPEDS UnitID 366261; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 44 Gated 32
Concorde Career College-Dallas concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 460181; 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
Concorde Career College-Grand Prairie concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 441742; 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
Concorde Career College-San Antonio concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 460206; 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
Concordia University Texas concordia.eduIPEDS UnitID 224004; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 Gated 32
Criswell College criswell.eduIPEDS UnitID 475608; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Culinary Institute Inc culinaryinstitute.eduIPEDS UnitID 444565; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 31
Dallas Baptist University dbu.eduIPEDS UnitID 224226; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 No 32
Dallas Christian College dallas.eduIPEDS UnitID 224244; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 41 No 31
Dallas College dallascollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 224615; 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
Dallas Institute of Funeral Service dallasinstitute.eduIPEDS UnitID 224271; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 Gated 32
Dallas Theological Seminary dts.eduIPEDS UnitID 224305; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 No 32
Del Mar College delmar.eduIPEDS UnitID 224350; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
Denver College of Nursing-Houston denvercollegeofnursing.eduIPEDS UnitID 499422; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 44 Gated 32
DeVry University-Texas devry.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 482635; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 11 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
East Texas A&M University tamuc.eduIPEDS UnitID 224554; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 7
East Texas Baptist University etbu.eduIPEDS UnitID 224527; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
El Paso Community College epcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 224642; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 52 No 7
Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest ssw.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 224712; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Fortis College fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 392415; 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 fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 459958; 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
Frank Phillips College fpctx.eduIPEDS UnitID 224891; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 No 1
Galen College of Nursing-San Antonio galencollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 406033; 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 —
Galen Health Institutes-Austin Campus galencollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 497116; 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 —
Galen Health Institutes-Dallas galencollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 499273; 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 —
Galen Health Institutes-Houston galencollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 498474; 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 —
Galveston College gc.eduIPEDS UnitID 224961; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
Grace School of Theology gsot.eduIPEDS UnitID 481401; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Grayson College grayson.eduIPEDS UnitID 225070; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
Hallmark University hallmarkuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 225201; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 73 No 1
Hardin-Simmons University hsutx.eduIPEDS UnitID 225247; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 Gated 32
Hill College hillcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 225371; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 61 No 31
Houston Christian University hc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 225399; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Houston Community College hccs.eduIPEDS UnitID 225423; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
Howard College howardcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 225520; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 66 No 32
Howard Payne University hputx.eduIPEDS UnitID 225548; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 34 Gated 32
Huston-Tillotson University htu.eduIPEDS UnitID 225575; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 69 No 32
Interactive College of Technology, Texas, Houston (UnitID 367361) ict.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 367361; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 6 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 (Cloudflare) — No —
Interactive College of Technology, Texas, Pasadena ict.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 440776; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 6 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 (Cloudflare) — No —
Interactive College of Technology, Texas, Houston (UnitID 443696) ict.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 443696; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 6 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 (Cloudflare) — No —
Jacksonville College-Main Campus jacksonvillecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 225876; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
Jarvis Christian University jarvis.eduIPEDS UnitID 225885; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 32
KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts kdstudio.comIPEDS UnitID 225991; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 No 30
Kilgore College kilgore.eduIPEDS UnitID 226019; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 Gated 32
Lamar Institute of Technology lit.eduIPEDS UnitID 441760; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
Lamar State College-Orange lsco.eduIPEDS UnitID 226107; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Lamar State College-Port Arthur lamarpa.eduIPEDS UnitID 226116; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 50 No 32
Lamar University lamar.eduIPEDS UnitID 226091; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 1
Lamson Institute lamson.eduIPEDS UnitID 456214; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 29
Laredo College laredo.eduIPEDS UnitID 226134; 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 33 Gated 1
Lee College lee.eduIPEDS UnitID 226204; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 34 Gated 1
LeTourneau University letu.eduIPEDS UnitID 226231; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 67 No 32
Lincoln College of Technology-Grand Prairie lincolntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 226277; 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
Lone Star College System lonestar.eduIPEDS UnitID 227182; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 46 No 32
Lubbock Christian University lcu.eduIPEDS UnitID 226383; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 No 18
McLennan Community College mclennan.eduIPEDS UnitID 226578; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 67 No 32
McMurry University mcm.eduIPEDS UnitID 226587; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 61 No 32
MediaTech Institute-Dallas mediatech.eduIPEDS UnitID 455336; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Messenger College messengercollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 417752; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 Gated 31
Midland College midland.eduIPEDS UnitID 226806; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
Midwestern State University msutexas.eduIPEDS UnitID 226833; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 Gated 32
Navarro College navarrocollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 227146; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
Nelson University nelson.eduIPEDS UnitID 228325; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 73 No 32
North American University na.eduIPEDS UnitID 461795; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 Gated 32
North Central Texas College nctc.eduIPEDS UnitID 224110; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 Gated 13
Northeast Lakeview College alamo.eduIPEDS UnitID 488730; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 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 64 No 32
Northeast Texas Community College ntcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 227225; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Northwest Vista College alamo.eduIPEDS UnitID 420398; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 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 64 No 32
Oblate School of Theology ost.eduIPEDS UnitID 227289; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
Odessa College odessa.eduIPEDS UnitID 227304; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 32
Our Lady of the Lake University ollusa.eduIPEDS UnitID 227331; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 69 No 32
Palo Alto College alamo.eduIPEDS UnitID 246354; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 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 64 No 32
Panola College panola.eduIPEDS UnitID 227386; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 29
Paris Junior College parisjc.eduIPEDS UnitID 227401; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Parker University parker.eduIPEDS UnitID 243823; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 Gated 32
Paul Quinn College paulquinn.eduIPEDS UnitID 227429; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 Gated 32
Peloton College pelotoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 459514; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 No 1
Pima Medical Institute-El Paso pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 486813; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 16 other institutions, measured once 55 Gated 32
Pima Medical Institute-Houston pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 460136; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 16 other institutions, measured once 55 Gated 32
Pima Medical Institute-San Antonio pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 494588; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 16 other institutions, measured once 55 Gated 32
Prairie View A & M University pvamu.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 227526; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it — No —
Ranger College rangercollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 227687; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 43 Gated 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