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 3,501–3,600 of 3,954 · page 36 of 40

SiteScore GatedPages read Report
Redeemers University North America rccgnaseminary.orgblockedIPEDS UnitID 497462; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
Remington College-Dallas Campus remingtoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 223463; 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-Fort Worth Campus remingtoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 377111; 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-Houston Southeast Campus remingtoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 451857; 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-North Houston Campus remingtoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 445203; 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
Rice University rice.eduIPEDS UnitID 227757; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Rio Grande Valley College rgvcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 476726; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
Saint Edward's University stedwards.eduIPEDS UnitID 227845; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Sam Houston State University shsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 227881; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 44 No 32
San Antonio College alamo.eduIPEDS UnitID 227924; 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
San Jacinto Community College sanjac.eduIPEDS UnitID 227979; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 70 No 32
School of Automotive Machinists & Technology samtech.eduIPEDS UnitID 377218; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 No 24
Schreiner University schreiner.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 228042; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
South Plains College southplainscollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 228158; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 Gated 31
South Texas College southtexascollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 409315; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 14
South Texas College of Law Houston stcl.eduIPEDS UnitID 228194; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 74 No 32
South University-Austin southuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 480073; 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 61 Gated 32
Southern Careers Institute-Austin scitexas.eduIPEDS UnitID 226903; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once 61 No 32
Southern Careers Institute-Brownsville scitexas.eduIPEDS UnitID 459967; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once 61 No 32
Southern Careers Institute-Corpus Christi scitexas.eduIPEDS UnitID 405076; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once 61 No 32
Southern Careers Institute-Harlingen scitexas.eduIPEDS UnitID 459985; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once 61 No 32
Southern Careers Institute-Pharr scitexas.eduIPEDS UnitID 408385; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once 61 No 32
Southern Careers Institute-San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio (UnitID 430245) scitexas.eduIPEDS UnitID 430245; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once 61 No 32
Southern Careers Institute-San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio (UnitID 482015) scitexas.eduIPEDS UnitID 482015; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once 61 No 32
Southern Careers Institute-Waco scitexas.eduIPEDS UnitID 493992; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once 61 No 32
Southern Methodist University smu.eduIPEDS UnitID 228246; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Southwest College for the Deaf howardcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 382911; 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 IPEDS carries pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned 66 No 32
Southwest Texas College swtjc.eduIPEDS UnitID 228316; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
Southwest University at El Paso southwestuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 451556; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 40 No 32
Southwestern Adventist University swau.eduIPEDS UnitID 228468; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 36 Gated 32
Southwestern Christian College swcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 228486; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 27
Southwestern University southwestern.eduIPEDS UnitID 228343; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
St Philip's College alamo.eduIPEDS UnitID 227854; 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
St. Mary's University stmarytx.eduIPEDS UnitID 228149; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 No 1
Stephen F Austin State University sfasu.eduIPEDS UnitID 228431; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
Strayer University-Texas strayer.eduIPEDS UnitID 458973; 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
Sul Ross State University sulross.eduIPEDS UnitID 228501; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 No 32
Tarleton State University tarleton.eduIPEDS UnitID 228529; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 50 No 32
Tarrant County College District tccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 228547; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 No 31
Temple College templejc.eduIPEDS UnitID 228608; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 39 Gated 8
Texarkana College texarkanacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 228699; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 32
Texas A & M International University tamiu.eduIPEDS UnitID 226152; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 Gated 31
Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi tamucc.eduIPEDS UnitID 224147; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Texas A & M University-System Office tamus.eduIPEDS UnitID 228732; 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 55 Gated 32
Texas A&M University-Central Texas tamuct.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 483036; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Texas A&M University-College Station tamu.eduIPEDS UnitID 228723; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
Texas A&M University-Kingsville tamuk.eduIPEDS UnitID 228705; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
Texas A&M University-San Antonio tamusa.eduIPEDS UnitID 459949; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
Texas A&M University-Texarkana tamut.eduIPEDS UnitID 224545; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 Gated 32
Texas Chiropractic College Foundation Inc txchiro.eduIPEDS UnitID 228866; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
Texas Christian University tcu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 228875; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
Texas College texascollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 228884; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Texas Health and Science University thsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 430704; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 No 30
Texas Health School ths.eduIPEDS UnitID 448196; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 32
Texas Healthtech Institute txinstitute.eduIPEDS UnitID 494694; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
Texas Lutheran University tlu.eduIPEDS UnitID 228981; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 67 No 32
Texas Southern University tsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 229063; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 Gated 32
Texas Southmost College tsc.eduIPEDS UnitID 227377; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 No 32
Texas State Technical College tstc.eduIPEDS UnitID 487320; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
Texas State University txst.eduIPEDS UnitID 228459; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 70 No 14
Texas Tech University ttu.eduIPEDS UnitID 229115; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 50 No 32
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center ttuhsc.eduIPEDS UnitID 229337; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 28 Gated 1
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-El Paso elpaso.ttuhsc.eduIPEDS UnitID 492689; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 1
Texas Tech University System Administration texastech.eduIPEDS UnitID 439154; 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 59 No 23
Texas Wesleyan University txwes.eduIPEDS UnitID 229160; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 Gated 32
Texas Woman's University twu.eduIPEDS UnitID 229179; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
The Chicago School at Dallas thechicagoschool.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 492607; 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; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
The Chicago School-College of Nursing thechicagoschool.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 437732; 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; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
The College of Health Care Professions-Austin chcp.eduIPEDS UnitID 437635; 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
The College of Health Care Professions-Dallas chcp.eduIPEDS UnitID 480824; 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
The College of Health Care Professions-Fort Worth chcp.eduIPEDS UnitID 480833; 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
The College of Health Care Professions-McAllen Campus chcp.eduIPEDS UnitID 489283; 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
The College of Health Care Professions-Northwest chcp.eduIPEDS UnitID 392257; 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
The College of Health Care Professions-San Antonio chcp.eduIPEDS UnitID 449250; 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
The College of Health Care Professions-South San Antonio chcp.eduIPEDS UnitID 492722; 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
The College of Health Care Professions-Southwest Houston chcp.eduIPEDS UnitID 447591; 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
The King's University tku.eduIPEDS UnitID 439701; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 Gated 32
The Recording Conservatory of Austin trcoa.eduIPEDS UnitID 485953; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 44 Gated 32
The University of Texas at Arlington uta.eduIPEDS UnitID 228769; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 28 Gated 1
The University of Texas at Austin utexas.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 228778; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
The University of Texas at Dallas utdallas.eduIPEDS UnitID 228787; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 52 Gated 32
The University of Texas at El Paso utep.eduIPEDS UnitID 228796; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 46 Gated 11
The University of Texas at San Antonio utsa.eduIPEDS UnitID 229027; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 28 Gated 1
The University of Texas at Tyler uttyler.eduIPEDS UnitID 228802; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston uth.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 229300; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio uthscsa.eduIPEDS UnitID 228644; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center mdanderson.orgIPEDS UnitID 416801; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 37 Gated 32
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston utmb.eduIPEDS UnitID 228653; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 No 1
The University of Texas Permian Basin utpb.eduIPEDS UnitID 229018; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley utrgv.eduIPEDS UnitID 227368; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 28 Gated 1
The University of Texas System Office utsystem.eduIPEDS UnitID 229090; 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 24
Trinity University new.trinity.eduIPEDS UnitID 229267; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 1
Trinity Valley Community College tvcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 225308; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 70 No 32
Tyler Junior College tjc.eduIPEDS UnitID 229355; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 Gated 32
Universal Technical Institute of Texas Inc. uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 229416; 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
Universal Technical Institute-Dallas Fort Worth uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 460543; 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
Universal Technical Institute-West Texas uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 497286; 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 Dallas udallas.eduIPEDS UnitID 224323; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
University of Houston uh.eduIPEDS UnitID 225511; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 48 Gated 32
University of Houston-Clear Lake uhcl.eduIPEDS UnitID 225414; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 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