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 701–800 of 3,954 · page 8 of 40

SiteScore GatedPages read Report
Arizona College of Nursing - Hartford arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 500306; 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
Central Connecticut State University ccsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 128771; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
Charter Oak State College charteroak.eduIPEDS UnitID 128780; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
Connecticut College conncoll.eduIPEDS UnitID 128902; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 No 32
Connecticut State Community College ctstate.eduIPEDS UnitID 129367; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 61 No 32
Eastern Connecticut State University easternct.eduIPEDS UnitID 129215; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Fairfield University fairfield.eduIPEDS UnitID 129242; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 69 No 32
Goodwin University goodwin.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 129154; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it — No —
Hartford International University for Religion and Peace hartfordinternational.eduIPEDS UnitID 129491; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 32
Holy Apostles College and Seminary holyapostles.eduIPEDS UnitID 129534; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 42 No 32
Mitchell College mitchell.eduIPEDS UnitID 129774; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
Post University post.eduIPEDS UnitID 130183; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 52 No 32
Quinnipiac University qu.eduIPEDS UnitID 130226; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 32
Sacred Heart University sacredheart.eduIPEDS UnitID 130253; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
Southern Connecticut State University southernct.eduIPEDS UnitID 130493; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
Trinity College trincoll.eduIPEDS UnitID 130590; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 73 No 32
University of Bridgeport bridgeport.eduunreachableIPEDS UnitID 128744; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it — No —
University of Connecticut uconn.eduIPEDS UnitID 129020; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 47 Gated 32
University of Connecticut-Avery Point averypoint.uconn.eduIPEDS UnitID 436827; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus hartford.uconn.eduIPEDS UnitID 463056; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 No 32
University of Connecticut-Stamford stamford.uconn.eduIPEDS UnitID 436836; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus waterbury.uconn.eduIPEDS UnitID 436818; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 45 Gated 32
University of Hartford hartford.eduIPEDS UnitID 129525; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 No 32
University of New Haven newhaven.eduIPEDS UnitID 129941; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
University of Saint Joseph usj.eduIPEDS UnitID 130314; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Wesleyan University wesleyan.eduIPEDS UnitID 130697; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Western Connecticut State University wcsu.eduIPEDS UnitID 130776; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 No 32
Yale University yale.eduIPEDS UnitID 130794; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 69 No 32
Delaware State University desu.eduIPEDS UnitID 130934; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 58 Gated 32
Delaware Technical Community College-Central Office dtcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 130882; 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 52 Gated 32
Delaware Technical Community College-Terry dtcc.eduIPEDS UnitID 130907; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 52 Gated 32
Goldey-Beacom College gbc.eduIPEDS UnitID 130989; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 Gated 32
University of Delaware udel.eduIPEDS UnitID 130943; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 46 Gated 32
Wilmington University wilmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 131113; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 30
American University american.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 131159; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Career Technical Institute careertechnical.eduIPEDS UnitID 420370; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 36 Gated 1
Gallaudet University gallaudet.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 131450; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
George Washington University gwu.eduIPEDS UnitID 131469; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 32
Georgetown University georgetown.eduIPEDS UnitID 131496; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
Howard University howard.eduIPEDS UnitID 131520; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
Institute of World Politics iwp.eduIPEDS UnitID 455804; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 30 Gated 32
Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies dhs.eduIPEDS UnitID 131405; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 No 32
Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family johnpaulii.eduIPEDS UnitID 455813; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 61 No 32
Saint Michael College of Allied Health smcah.eduIPEDS UnitID 486424; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 45 No 20
Strayer University-District of Columbia strayer.eduIPEDS UnitID 131803; 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 67 No 32
Strayer University-Global Region strayer.eduIPEDS UnitID 459994; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 7 other institutions, measured once; IPEDS reports this as a branch of another institution or an administrative office, such as a system office 67 No 32
The Catholic University of America catholic.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 131283; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
The Chicago School at Washington DC thechicagoschool.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 459745; 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 —
Trinity Washington University www2.trinitydc.eduIPEDS UnitID 131876; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
University of the District of Columbia udc.eduIPEDS UnitID 131399; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
University of the Potomac-Washington DC Campus potomac.eduIPEDS UnitID 384412; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 46 Gated 32
Wesley Theological Seminary wesleyseminary.eduIPEDS UnitID 131973; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 Gated 31
College of Micronesia-FSM comfsm.fmIPEDS UnitID 243638; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; in Federated States of Micronesia, a US territory or freely associated state, not one of the 50 states or DC 49 No 1
Academy for Five Element Acupuncture acupuncturist.eduIPEDS UnitID 451079; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
Academy for Nursing and Health Occupations anho.eduIPEDS UnitID 412173; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 45 Gated 32
Advance Science International College asicollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 444334; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 56 No 1
AdventHealth University ahu.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 133872; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
Albizu University-Miami albizu.eduIPEDS UnitID 132842; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 52 Gated 30
American Medical Academy ama.eduIPEDS UnitID 475714; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 32
Ana G. Mendez University agmu.eduIPEDS UnitID 483595; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 55 No 32
Antigua College International antigua.eduIPEDS UnitID 496636; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 24
Arizona College of Nursing-Fort Lauderdale arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 495439; 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-Sarasota arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 499370; 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-Tampa arizonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 495420; 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
ATA Career Education atafl.eduIPEDS UnitID 446127; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 1
Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine atom.eduIPEDS UnitID 439446; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 32 Gated 32
Atlantis University atlantisuniversity.eduIPEDS UnitID 485768; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 50 Gated 29
Ave Maria School of Law avemarialaw.eduIPEDS UnitID 442295; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Ave Maria University avemaria.eduIPEDS UnitID 446048; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
Aviator College of Aeronautical Science and Technology aviator.eduIPEDS UnitID 447847; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 42 No 1
Baptist University of Florida buf.eduIPEDS UnitID 132408; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
Barry University barry.eduIPEDS UnitID 132471; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 39 Gated 32
Beacon College beaconcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 384254; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 61 Gated 32
Bethune-Cookman University cookman.eduIPEDS UnitID 132602; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 60 No 28
Broward College broward.eduIPEDS UnitID 132709; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 32
Cambridge College of Healthcare & Technology, Florida, Altamonte Springs cambridgehealth.eduIPEDS UnitID 446109; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 65 No 32
Cambridge College of Healthcare & Technology, Florida, Delray Beach cambridgehealth.eduIPEDS UnitID 454865; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 65 No 32
CBT Technology Institute-Hialeah cbt.eduIPEDS UnitID 449092; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 57 No 31
CBT Technology Institute-Main Campus cbt.eduIPEDS UnitID 449083; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 57 No 31
Chamberlain University-Florida chamberlain.eduIPEDS UnitID 457129; 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
Chancellor Institute ichancellor.eduIPEDS UnitID 498340; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 71 No 15
Chipola College chipola.eduIPEDS UnitID 133021; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 61 No 32
City College-Altamonte Springs citycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 417327; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 33 Gated 1
City College-Hollywood citycollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 244233; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it; shares one website with 1 other institution, measured once 33 Gated 1
College of Central Florida cf.eduIPEDS UnitID 132851; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Compu-Med Vocational Careers Corp compumed.eduIPEDS UnitID 423120; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
Concorde Career Institute-Jacksonville concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 133845; 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
Concorde Career Institute-Miramar concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 133854; 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
Concorde Career Institute-Orlando concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 460190; 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
Concorde Career Institute-Tampa concorde.eduIPEDS UnitID 133863; 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
Daytona College daytonacollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 447014; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
Daytona State College daytonastate.eduIPEDS UnitID 133386; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
DeVry University-Florida devry.edublockedIPEDS UnitID 482459; 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 —
Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine dragonrises.eduIPEDS UnitID 449481; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 59 No 1
East West College of Natural Medicine ewcollege.eduIPEDS UnitID 439394; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 42 No 1
Eastern Florida State College easternflorida.eduIPEDS UnitID 132693; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
Eckerd College eckerd.eduIPEDS UnitID 133492; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 75 No 32
Edward Waters University ew.eduIPEDS UnitID 133526; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 45 Gated 31
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach daytonabeach.erau.eduIPEDS UnitID 133553; web address as the institution reported it to IPEDS (HD2024), not checked by loading it 67 No 1
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide worldwide.erau.eduIPEDS UnitID 426314; 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

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