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 601–700 of 3,954 · page 7 of 40
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of La Verne laverne.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 117140; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| University of Massachusetts Global umassglobal.eduIPEDS UnitID 262086; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| University of Phoenix-California phoenix.eduIPEDS UnitID 484631; 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 Redlands redlands.eduIPEDS UnitID 121691; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| University of San Diego sandiego.eduIPEDS UnitID 122436; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 11 | |
| University of San Francisco usfca.eduIPEDS UnitID 122612; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| University of Silicon Valley usv.eduIPEDS UnitID 112394; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| University of Southern California usc.eduIPEDS UnitID 123961; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences usa.eduIPEDS UnitID 367954; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| University of the Pacific pacific.eduIPEDS UnitID 120883; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| University of the West uwest.eduIPEDS UnitID 449870; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| University of West Los Angeles uwla.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 484862; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Vanguard University of Southern California vanguard.eduIPEDS UnitID 123651; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ventura College venturacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 125028; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Ventura County Community College System Office vcccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 125019; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Victor Valley College vvc.eduIPEDS UnitID 125091; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies westcoastuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 489858; 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 Coast University-Los Angeles westcoastuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 443331; 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 Coast University-Ontario westcoastuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 458229; 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 Coast University-Orange County westcoastuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 458210; 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 Hills Community College District westhillscollege.comIPEDS UnitID 448637; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 2 other institutions, measured once; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 64 | No | 8 | |
| West Los Angeles College wlac.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 125471; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| West Valley College westvalley.eduIPEDS UnitID 125499; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| West Valley Mission Community College District Office wvm.eduIPEDS UnitID 125222; 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 | Gated | 32 | |
| Westcliff University westcliff.eduIPEDS UnitID 490133; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Western University of Health Sciences westernu.eduIPEDS UnitID 112525; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Westminster Theological Seminary in California wscal.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 125718; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Westmont College westmont.eduIPEDS UnitID 125727; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Whittier College whittier.eduIPEDS UnitID 125763; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| William Jessup University jessup.eduIPEDS UnitID 122728; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Woodbury University woodbury.eduIPEDS UnitID 125897; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Woodland Community College wcc.yccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 455512; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| World Mission University wmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 401223; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Xavier College School of Nursing xavier-college.comIPEDS UnitID 481289; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 6 | |
| Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad West Coast Talmudical Seminary yoec.eduIPEDS UnitID 126076; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 18 | |
| Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine yosan.eduIPEDS UnitID 401250; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Yosemite Community College District Office yosemite.eduIPEDS UnitID 126100; 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 | 27 | |
| Young Americans College of the Performing Arts yacollege.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 493619; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Yuba College yc.yccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 126119; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Adams State University adams.eduIPEDS UnitID 126182; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Aims Community College aims.eduIPEDS UnitID 126207; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Apex College of Veterinary Technology apexcvt.eduIPEDS UnitID 494986; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Arapahoe Community College arapahoe.eduIPEDS UnitID 126289; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Arizona College of Nursing-Aurora arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 499389; 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 | |
| Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts-Boulder escoffier.eduIPEDS UnitID 454810; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 75 | No | 32 | |
| Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology belrea.eduIPEDS UnitID 126359; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Colorado Academy of Veterinary Technology cavt.eduIPEDS UnitID 461953; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 2 | |
| Colorado Chinese Medicine University ccmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 381352; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 31 | |
| Colorado Christian University ccu.eduIPEDS UnitID 126669; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Colorado College coloradocollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 126678; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Colorado Mesa University coloradomesa.eduIPEDS UnitID 127556; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Colorado Mountain College coloradomtn.eduIPEDS UnitID 126711; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Colorado Northwestern Community College cncc.eduIPEDS UnitID 126748; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Colorado School of Mines mines.eduIPEDS UnitID 126775; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Colorado School of Trades schooloftrades.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 126784; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Colorado State University Global csuglobal.eduIPEDS UnitID 476975; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Colorado State University Pueblo csupueblo.eduIPEDS UnitID 128106; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Colorado State University-Fort Collins colostate.eduIPEDS UnitID 126818; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Colorado State University-System Office csusystem.eduIPEDS UnitID 446978; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 55 | Gated | 30 | |
| Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs coloradotech.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 126827; 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: challenge page (Imperva) | — | No | — | |
| Community College of Aurora ccaurora.eduIPEDS UnitID 126863; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Community College of Denver ccd.eduIPEDS UnitID 126942; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Concorde Career College-Aurora concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 126687; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 15 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 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Denver College of Nursing denvercollegeofnursing.eduIPEDS UnitID 454856; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Denver Seminary denverseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 126979; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Fort Lewis College fortlewis.eduIPEDS UnitID 127185; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Front Range Community College frontrange.eduIPEDS UnitID 127200; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| IBMC College ibmc.eduIPEDS UnitID 372329; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Iliff School of Theology iliff.eduIPEDS UnitID 127273; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture itea.eduIPEDS UnitID 454838; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 31 | |
| Intellitec College-Colorado Springs intellitec.eduIPEDS UnitID 128179; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Intellitec College-Grand Junction intellitec.eduIPEDS UnitID 128188; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Lamar Community College lamarcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 127389; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln College of Technology-Denver lincolntech.eduIPEDS UnitID 126951; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 9 other institutions, measured once; the address on record points at a page within a site that several institutions share, which is what tells this campus from its siblings; the site is measured once | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Metropolitan State University of Denver msudenver.eduIPEDS UnitID 127565; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 31 | |
| Morgan Community College morgancc.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 127617; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Naropa University naropa.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 127653; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Nazarene Bible College nbc.eduIPEDS UnitID 127714; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Northeastern Junior College njc.eduIPEDS UnitID 127732; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Otero College otero.eduIPEDS UnitID 127778; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Pikes Peak State College pikespeak.eduIPEDS UnitID 127820; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Pima Medical Institute-Aurora pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 461689; 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-Colorado Springs pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 442134; 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-Denver pmi.eduIPEDS UnitID 404912; 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 | |
| Pueblo Community College pueblocc.eduIPEDS UnitID 127884; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Red Rocks Community College rrcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 127909; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Regis University regis.eduIPEDS UnitID 127918; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design rmcad.eduIPEDS UnitID 127945; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rocky Vista University rvu.eduIPEDS UnitID 480790; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology, Colorado spartan.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 126605; 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 | — | |
| Taft University System taftu.eduIPEDS UnitID 454689; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Trinidad State College trinidadstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 128258; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Colorado Boulder colorado.eduIPEDS UnitID 126614; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| University of Colorado Colorado Springs uccs.eduIPEDS UnitID 126580; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus ucdenver.eduIPEDS UnitID 126562; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| University of Colorado System Office cu.eduIPEDS UnitID 128300; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office | 55 | No | 32 | |
| University of Denver du.eduIPEDS UnitID 127060; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| University of Northern Colorado unco.eduIPEDS UnitID 127741; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Western Colorado University western.eduIPEDS UnitID 128391; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Albertus Magnus College albertus.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 128498; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it | — | 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