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 3,601–3,700 of 3,954 · page 37 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages 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