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 501–600 of 3,954 · page 6 of 40

SiteScore GatedPages read Report
Samuel Merritt University samuelmerritt.eduIPEDS UnitID 122296; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 70 No 32
San Bernardino Community College District sbccd.orgIPEDS UnitID 428426; 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 51 No 3
San Bernardino Valley College valleycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 123527; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 No 32
San Diego Christian College sdcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 112084; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
San Diego City College sdcity.eduIPEDS UnitID 122339; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 31
San Diego Community College District-District Office sdccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 122320; 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 66 No 32
San Diego Global Knowledge University sdgku.eduIPEDS UnitID 493512; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 No 30
San Diego Mesa College sdmesa.eduIPEDS UnitID 122375; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 No 32
San Diego Miramar College sdmiramar.eduIPEDS UnitID 122384; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
San Diego State University sdsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 122409; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 17
San Francisco Conservatory of Music sfcm.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 122506; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it — No —
San Francisco Film School sanfranciscofilmschool.eduIPEDS UnitID 486372; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
San Francisco State University sfsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 122597; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 72 No 32
San Joaquin College of Law sjcl.eduIPEDS UnitID 122649; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 No 32
San Joaquin Delta College deltacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 122658; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 28 Gated 1
San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 122694; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Central Administrative Office sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 448381; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Fresno sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 262457; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Hesperia sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 456852; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Lancaster sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 481775; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Modesto sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 447351; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Ontario sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 442444; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Rancho Cordova sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 448372; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Rancho Mirage sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 495952; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Santa Maria sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 495961; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Temecula sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 475176; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Trades Education Center sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 422020; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia sjvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 122685; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 12 other institutions, measured once 66 No 32
San Jose City College sjcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 122746; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
San Jose State University sjsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 122755; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 28 Gated 1
San Jose-Evergreen Community College District sjeccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 122737; 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 61 No 30
San Mateo County Community College District Office smccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 122782; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office 69 No 32
Santa Ana College sac.eduIPEDS UnitID 121619; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
Santa Barbara City College sbcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 122889; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 52 No 32
Santa Clara University scu.eduIPEDS UnitID 122931; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 70 No 17
Santa Monica College smc.eduIPEDS UnitID 122977; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Santa Rosa Junior College santarosa.eduIPEDS UnitID 123013; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 10
Santiago Canyon College sccollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 399212; 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 64 No 32
Saybrook University saybrook.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 123095; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Scripps College scrippscollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 123165; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
Shasta Bible College and Graduate School shasta.eduIPEDS UnitID 123280; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 Gated 32
Shasta College shastacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 123299; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 46 Gated 32
Sierra College sierracollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 123341; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Simpson University simpsonu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 123457; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
Skyline College skylinecollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 123509; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
Smith Chason College smithchason.eduIPEDS UnitID 441229; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 67 No 1
Sofia University sofia.eduIPEDS UnitID 110778; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 Gated 32
Soka University of America soka.eduIPEDS UnitID 399911; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 Gated 32
Solano Community College welcome.solano.eduIPEDS UnitID 123563; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 1
Sonoma State University sonoma.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 123572; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
South Baylo University southbaylo.eduIPEDS UnitID 123633; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 31 Gated 1
South Coast College southcoastcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 123642; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
South Orange County Community College District socccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 432144; 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 46 No 32
Southern California Health Institute sochi.eduIPEDS UnitID 461856; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
Southern California Institute of Architecture sciarc.eduIPEDS UnitID 123952; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 62 No 10
Southern California Institute of Technology scitech.eduIPEDS UnitID 399869; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
Southern California Seminary socalsem.eduIPEDS UnitID 117575; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 Gated 32
Southern California University of Health Sciences scuhs.eduIPEDS UnitID 117672; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 Gated 32
Southwestern College, California swccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 123800; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
Southwestern Law School swlaw.eduIPEDS UnitID 123970; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 72 No 32
Spartan College of Aeronautics & Technology spartan.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 413680; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Sri Sai Krish Institute sskinstitute.orgIPEDS UnitID 496654; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 44 Gated 29
Stanbridge University stanbridge.eduIPEDS UnitID 446561; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 61 No 32
Stanford University stanford.eduIPEDS UnitID 243744; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 No 32
Starr King School for the Ministry sksm.eduIPEDS UnitID 123916; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 50 Gated 32
State Center Community College District scccd.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 123925; 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 —
SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary sum.eduIPEDS UnitID 447953; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 Gated 32
Taft College taftcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 124113; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 34 Gated 32
The Chicago School at Anaheim thechicagoschool.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 455433; 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 at Los Angeles thechicagoschool.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 455664; 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 at San Diego thechicagoschool.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 491190; 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 Colleges of Law at Santa Barbara collegesoflaw.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 475228; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
The Colleges of Law at Ventura collegesoflaw.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 125037; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
The Master's University and Seminary masters.eduIPEDS UnitID 117751; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 53 No 6
The Wright Institute wi.eduIPEDS UnitID 126012; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 48 Gated 32
Theatre of Arts toa.eduIPEDS UnitID 486123; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 42 No 1
Thomas Aquinas College thomasaquinas.eduIPEDS UnitID 124292; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 70 No 32
Thomas Jefferson School of Law tjsl.eduIPEDS UnitID 126049; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 Gated 31
Touro University California tu.eduIPEDS UnitID 459736; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 32
Touro University Worldwide tuw.eduIPEDS UnitID 459727; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 Gated 32
Trinity Law School tiu.eduIPEDS UnitID 123448; 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
UEI College-Gardena uei.eduIPEDS UnitID 393649; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 52 Gated 32
United States University usuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 447050; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 No 32
Unitek College unitekcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 459204; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 67 No 32
Universal Technical Institute of California Inc uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 438504; 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 of Northern California Inc uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 448433; 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-Southern California uti.eduIPEDS UnitID 487597; 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 California College of the Law-San Francisco uclawsf.eduIPEDS UnitID 110398; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
University of California-Berkeley berkeley.eduIPEDS UnitID 110635; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 Gated 32
University of California-Davis ucdavis.eduIPEDS UnitID 110644; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 31
University of California-Irvine uci.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 110653; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
University of California-Los Angeles ucla.eduIPEDS UnitID 110662; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 Gated 32
University of California-Merced ucmerced.eduIPEDS UnitID 445188; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
University of California-Riverside ucr.eduIPEDS UnitID 110671; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 No 32
University of California-San Diego ucsd.eduIPEDS UnitID 110680; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
University of California-San Francisco ucsf.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 110699; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
University of California-Santa Barbara ucsb.eduIPEDS UnitID 110705; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 44 Gated 32
University of California-Santa Cruz ucsc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 110714; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
University of California-System Administration Central Office ucop.eduIPEDS UnitID 124557; 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 65 No 32
University of East-West Medicine uewm.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 447801; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —

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