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.
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) |
|---|---|
| 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.
Distribution
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% |
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.
| 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% |
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
| 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 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
| 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 |
Common — 90 to 95%
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 401–500 of 3,954 · page 5 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loma Linda University llu.eduIPEDS UnitID 117636; 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 | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Long Beach City College lbcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 117645; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art laafa.eduIPEDS UnitID 490124; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Los Angeles City College lacc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 117788; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Los Angeles College of Music lacm.eduIPEDS UnitID 446385; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Los Angeles Community College District Office laccd.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 117681; 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; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Los Angeles County College of Nursing and Allied Health dhs.lacounty.govIPEDS UnitID 117803; 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 | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Los Angeles Film School lafilm.eduIPEDS UnitID 436429; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Los Angeles Harbor College lahc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 117690; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Los Angeles Mission College lamission.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 117867; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Los Angeles Pacific College lapacific.eduIPEDS UnitID 400558; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Los Angeles Pacific University lapu.eduIPEDS UnitID 474863; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 78 | No | 1 | |
| Los Angeles Pierce College lapc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 117706; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Los Angeles Southwest College lasc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 117715; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Los Angeles Trade Technical College lattc.eduIPEDS UnitID 117724; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Los Angeles Valley College lavc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 117733; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Los Medanos College losmedanos.eduIPEDS UnitID 117894; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 31 | |
| Los Rios Community College District Office losrios.eduIPEDS UnitID 117900; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Loyola Marymount University lmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 117946; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Madera Community College maderacollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 497046; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Marshall B Ketchum University ketchum.eduIPEDS UnitID 123943; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Mendocino College mendocino.eduIPEDS UnitID 118684; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Menlo College menlo.eduIPEDS UnitID 118693; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Merced College mccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 118718; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Meridian University meridianuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 491808; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Merritt College merritt.eduIPEDS UnitID 118772; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey middlebury.eduIPEDS UnitID 119058; 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 | |
| MiraCosta College miracosta.eduIPEDS UnitID 118912; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Mission College missioncollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 118930; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Modesto Junior College mjc.eduIPEDS UnitID 118976; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Monterey Peninsula College mpc.eduIPEDS UnitID 119067; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Moorpark College moorparkcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 119137; 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 | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Moreno Valley College mvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 460394; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Mount Saint Mary's University msmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 119173; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mt San Antonio College mtsac.eduIPEDS UnitID 119164; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 20 | |
| Mt San Jacinto Community College District msjc.eduIPEDS UnitID 119216; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| MTI College campus.eduIPEDS UnitID 118198; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Musicians Institute mi.eduIPEDS UnitID 119270; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Napa Valley College napavalley.eduIPEDS UnitID 119331; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| National Career College nccusa.eduIPEDS UnitID 455868; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| National Polytechnic College npcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 447759; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| National University nu.eduIPEDS UnitID 119605; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 55 | No | 32 | |
| New York Film Academy nyfa.eduIPEDS UnitID 461148; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Newschool of Architecture and Design newschoolarch.eduIPEDS UnitID 119775; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Norco College norcocollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 460464; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| North Orange County Community College District nocccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 120023; 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 | 70 | No | 31 | |
| North-West College-Anaheim nw.eduIPEDS UnitID 484367; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 4 other institutions, measured once | 49 | No | 32 | |
| North-West College-Long Beach nw.eduIPEDS UnitID 484376; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 4 other institutions, measured once | 49 | No | 32 | |
| North-West College-Riverside north-westcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 445364; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| North-West College-San Diego nw.eduIPEDS UnitID 494746; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 4 other institutions, measured once | 49 | No | 32 | |
| North-West College-West Covina nw.eduIPEDS UnitID 120078; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 4 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 | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Northcentral University nu.eduIPEDS UnitID 444130; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Northeastern University Oakland oakland.northeastern.eduIPEDS UnitID 118888; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Notre Dame de Namur University ndnu.eduIPEDS UnitID 120184; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 28 | |
| Oak Valley College oakvalley.eduIPEDS UnitID 495059; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Occidental College oxy.eduIPEDS UnitID 120254; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Ohlone College ohlone.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 120290; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Orange Coast College orangecoastcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 120342; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Otis College of Art and Design otis.eduIPEDS UnitID 120403; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 28 | |
| Oxnard College oxnardcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 120421; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Pacific College pacific-college.eduIPEDS UnitID 422695; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Pacific College of Health and Science, California pacificcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 378576; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Pacific Oaks College pacificoaks.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 120768; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Pacific School of Religion psr.eduIPEDS UnitID 120795; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Pacific States University psuca.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 120838; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Pacific Union College puc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 120865; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Pacifica Graduate Institute pacifica.eduIPEDS UnitID 115746; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Palo Alto University paloaltou.eduIPEDS UnitID 120698; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Palo Verde College paloverde.eduIPEDS UnitID 120953; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 31 | |
| Palomar College www2.palomar.eduIPEDS UnitID 120971; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Pasadena City College pasadena.eduIPEDS UnitID 121044; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| PCI College pci-ed.comIPEDS UnitID 439871; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 22 | |
| Pepperdine University pepperdine.eduIPEDS UnitID 121150; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Peralta Community College System Office peralta.eduIPEDS UnitID 121178; 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 | 32 | |
| Pima Medical Institute-Chula Vista pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 434140; 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 Marcos pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 492449; 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 | |
| Pitzer College pitzer.eduIPEDS UnitID 121257; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Platt College-Anaheim plattcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 490878; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 57 | No | 31 | |
| Platt College-Los Angeles plattcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 260789; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 57 | No | 31 | |
| Platt College-Ontario plattcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 432384; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 57 | No | 31 | |
| Platt College-Riverside plattcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 480204; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 3 other institutions, measured once | 57 | No | 31 | |
| Point Loma Nazarene University pointloma.eduIPEDS UnitID 121309; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Pomona College pomona.eduIPEDS UnitID 121345; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Porterville College portervillecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 121363; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 21 | |
| Premiere Career College premierecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 416458; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Presbyterian Theological Seminary in America ptsa.eduIPEDS UnitID 490045; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Presidio Graduate School presidio.eduIPEDS UnitID 486433; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 1 | |
| Professional Golfers Career College golfcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 437750; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 29 | |
| Providence Christian College providencecc.eduIPEDS UnitID 455770; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rancho Santiago Community College District Office rsccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 438665; 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 | 32 | |
| RAND School of Public Policy pardeerand.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 121628; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| Reach University reach.eduIPEDS UnitID 497480; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Reedley College reedleycollege.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 117052; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Reiss-Davis Graduate School reissdavis.eduIPEDS UnitID 492209; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 4 | |
| Rio Hondo College riohondo.eduIPEDS UnitID 121886; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Riverside City College rcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 121901; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sacramento City College scc.losrios.eduIPEDS UnitID 122180; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Sacramento Ultrasound Institute sui.eduIPEDS UnitID 490160; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 27 | |
| Saddleback College saddleback.eduIPEDS UnitID 122205; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Saint Mary's College of California stmarys-ca.eduIPEDS UnitID 123554; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 71 | 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