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 3,601–3,700 of 3,954 · page 37 of 40

SiteScore GatedPages read Report
University of Houston-Downtown uhd.eduIPEDS UnitID 225432; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
University of Houston-System Administration uh.eduIPEDS UnitID 229407; 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 48 Gated 32
University of Houston-Victoria uhv.eduIPEDS UnitID 225502; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 72 No 1
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor go.umhb.eduIPEDS UnitID 226471; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 73 No 1
University of North Texas unt.eduIPEDS UnitID 227216; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 29 Gated 1
University of North Texas at Dallas untdallas.eduIPEDS UnitID 484905; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 67 No 32
University of North Texas Health Science Center unthsc.eduIPEDS UnitID 228909; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 74 No 1
University of North Texas System untsystem.unt.eduIPEDS UnitID 443711; 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 67 No 1
University of Phoenix-Texas phoenix.eduIPEDS UnitID 484756; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once 63 Gated 32
University of St Thomas, Texas stthom.eduIPEDS UnitID 227863; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center utsouthwestern.eduIPEDS UnitID 228635; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 Gated 32
University of the Incarnate Word uiw.eduIPEDS UnitID 225627; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 Gated 32
Vernon College vernoncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 229504; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Vet Tech Institute of Houston vti.eduIPEDS UnitID 223472; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 62 No 1
Victoria College victoriacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 229540; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
Wade College wadecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 226879; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 30
Wayland Baptist University wbu.eduIPEDS UnitID 229780; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Weatherford College wc.eduIPEDS UnitID 229799; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
West Coast University-Texas westcoastuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 477039; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 5 other institutions, measured once 78 No 32
West Texas A & M University wtamu.eduIPEDS UnitID 229814; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
Western Technical College, Texas, El Paso (UnitID 224660) westerntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 224660; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 53 No 32
Western Technical College, Texas, El Paso (UnitID 224679) westerntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 224679; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 53 No 32
Western Texas College wtc.eduIPEDS UnitID 229832; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Wharton County Junior College wcjc.eduIPEDS UnitID 229841; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 69 No 32
Wiley University wileyc.eduIPEDS UnitID 229887; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 44 Gated 32
University of the Virgin Islands uvi.eduIPEDS UnitID 243665; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; in U.S. Virgin Islands, a US territory or freely associated state, not one of the 50 states or DC 67 No 32
Arizona College of Nursing-Salt Lake City arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 497268; 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
Brigham Young University byu.eduIPEDS UnitID 230038; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 24
Careers Unlimited ucdh.eduIPEDS UnitID 448239; 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 54 No 32
Eagle Gate College-Layton eaglegatecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 447421; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once 56 Gated 32
Eagle Gate College-Murray eaglegatecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 230366; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once 56 Gated 32
Ensign College ensign.eduIPEDS UnitID 230418; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 Gated 32
Fortis College-Salt Lake City fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 456454; 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
Galen Health Institutes-Salt Lake City galencollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 499307; 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 —
Joyce University of Nursing and Health Sciences joyce.eduIPEDS UnitID 447263; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 Gated 32
Midwives College of Utah midwifery.eduIPEDS UnitID 480985; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
Neumont College of Computer Science neumont.eduIPEDS UnitID 445692; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
Nightingale College nightingale.eduIPEDS UnitID 444787; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Provo College provocollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 380438; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 Gated 27
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions rm.eduIPEDS UnitID 475495; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 61 No 32
Salt Lake Community College slcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 230746; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 52 Gated 32
Snow College snow.eduIPEDS UnitID 230597; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 46 Gated 32
Southern Utah University suu.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 230603; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it — No —
University of Utah utah.eduIPEDS UnitID 230764; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 Gated 32
Utah State University usu.eduIPEDS UnitID 230728; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
Utah Tech University utahtech.eduIPEDS UnitID 230171; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
Utah Valley University uvu.eduIPEDS UnitID 230737; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 18
Weber State University weber.eduIPEDS UnitID 230782; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 49 No 32
Western Governors University wgu.eduIPEDS UnitID 433387; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
Westminster University westminstercollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 230807; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 1
Bennington College bennington.eduIPEDS UnitID 230816; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
Champlain College champlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 230852; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 73 No 32
Community College of Vermont ccv.eduIPEDS UnitID 230861; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 Gated 32
Landmark College landmark.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 247649; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Middlebury College middlebury.eduIPEDS UnitID 230959; 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 71 No 32
Norwich University norwich.eduIPEDS UnitID 230995; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 72 No 32
Saint Michael's College smcvt.eduIPEDS UnitID 231059; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 74 No 32
SIT Graduate Institute sit.eduIPEDS UnitID 231068; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
Sterling College, Vermont sterlingcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 231095; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 Gated 32
University of Vermont uvm.eduIPEDS UnitID 231174; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 17
Vermont College of Fine Arts vcfa.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 455992; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) — No —
Vermont Law and Graduate School vermontlaw.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 231147; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Vermont State Colleges-Office of the Chancellor vsc.eduIPEDS UnitID 231156; 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 42 Gated 32
Vermont State University vermontstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 231165; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 Gated 32
Advanced Technology Institute auto.eduIPEDS UnitID 231411; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 Gated 28
American National University an.eduIPEDS UnitID 232797; 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 54 Gated 23
Appalachian College of Pharmacy acp.eduIPEDS UnitID 449922; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
Appalachian School of Law asl.eduIPEDS UnitID 432348; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
Arizona College of Nursing - Chesapeake arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 500290; 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
Arizona College of Nursing-Falls Church arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 498447; 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
Ascent College ascent.eduIPEDS UnitID 458113; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 34 Gated 1
Averett University averett.eduIPEDS UnitID 231420; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Blue Ridge Community College, Virginia brcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 231536; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 61 No 32
Bluefield University bluefield.eduIPEDS UnitID 231554; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing bsmcon.eduIPEDS UnitID 233356; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 32
Bon Secours St Mary's Hospital School of Medical Imaging smhsomi.eduIPEDS UnitID 233480; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 69 No 32
Bridgewater College bridgewater.eduIPEDS UnitID 231581; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 32
Brightpoint Community College brightpoint.eduIPEDS UnitID 232450; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 49 No 32
Bryant & Stratton College-Virginia Beach bryantstratton.eduIPEDS UnitID 231785; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once 65 No 32
Centra College centrahealth.comblockedIPEDS UnitID 232618; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; the address IPEDS carries pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
Central Virginia Community College centralvirginia.eduIPEDS UnitID 231697; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 No 32
Centura College-Norfolk centuracollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 377458; 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 42 Gated 32
Centura College-Virginia Beach centuracollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 232016; 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 42 Gated 32
Chamberlain University-Virginia chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 460871; 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
Chester Career College chestercareercollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 437769; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Christopher Newport University cnu.eduIPEDS UnitID 231712; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 49 Gated 32
Columbia College, Virginia ccdc.eduIPEDS UnitID 455983; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
Danville Community College danville.eduIPEDS UnitID 231882; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 32
DeVry University-Virginia devry.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 482653; 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 —
Divine Mercy University divinemercy.eduIPEDS UnitID 445869; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Eastern Mennonite University emu.eduIPEDS UnitID 232043; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 Gated 32
Eastern Shore Community College es.vccs.eduIPEDS UnitID 232052; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 31
Eastern Virginia Career College evcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 441858; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 52 Gated 32
Eastern Virginia Medical School evms.eduIPEDS UnitID 231970; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 1
ECPI University ecpi.eduIPEDS UnitID 248934; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 67 No 32
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine vcom.eduIPEDS UnitID 442806; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 73 No 32
Emory & Henry University emoryhenry.eduIPEDS UnitID 232025; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 No 32
Ferrum College ferrum.eduIPEDS UnitID 232089; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 70 No 32
Fortis College-Norfolk fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 233329; 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 College-Richmond fortis.eduIPEDS UnitID 382957; 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

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