UK Universities and Higher Education Providers
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Every registered higher education provider in England, and the universities and colleges of higher education in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Median score
59
across 368 sites
Middle half
53–65
spread around the median
Full range
29–76
lowest to highest
Gated
123 of 368
block AI crawlers outright
Middle of 31 cohorts. All cohorts 54 · best cohort 63.
Where this list came from
The source, and how we filtered it
| Source | UK higher education provider registers, Office for Students (England); Medr (Wales); Scottish Funding Council (Scotland); NI Direct, Northern Ireland Executive (Northern Ireland) (OfS Register as downloaded 2026-11-02; Medr Register 2026-07-31; SFC university indicative funding allocations 2026-27 (March 2026); nidirect 'Universities and colleges in Northern Ireland' read 2026-11-02) |
|---|---|
| License | Open Government Licence v3.0 (OfS, SFC, nidirect); Medr publishes under the Open Government Licence for Wales/OGL v3.0 |
| Cite as | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| How we filtered it | England: every provider on the 'Register' sheet of the OfS Register download, keyed on UKPRN. The name shown is the first trading name, else the legal name. The website is the register's own column. kind is 'university' when the register says the provider may use 'university' in its title; 'fe-college' when GIAS types its UKPRN as a further education college or a 16-19 academy named 'College'; 'college' otherwise. Wales: every provider on Medr's Register of Higher Education Providers, with the register's website column. Scotland: every institution in Table 2 (Main Teaching Grant) of the SFC 2026-27 indicative university allocations, except 'Open University in Scotland' (the Open University is already on the OfS register) and the Total line. The SFC gives no websites, so each name was matched exactly to a Wikidata English label or alias on a UK item; the website was taken only when exactly one item and one host answered. Northern Ireland: the four university and university-college headings on the nidirect page, with the first website link nidirect gives under each. Paths are cut to the site root except where several rows share a host. |
| Instead of | HESA's provider list sits behind a Cloudflare challenge, which was not bypassed. The UKRLP web service answered 502. Discover Uni's open dataset download could not be found at any current address. |
| Built | 2026-11-02 |
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 368 sites land
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weak | 165 | 44.8% | |
| Not ready | 20 | 5.4% | |
| Adequate | 179 | 48.6% | |
| Strong | 4 | 1.1% |
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. |
78% | |
| #2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |
56% | |
| #3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are? |
31% | |
| #4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |
70% |
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.
8 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
5 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
Universal — nobody passes these
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 368 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 368 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 359 | 0 | |
| EXT-18 | Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay? | 16 | 0 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 23 | 0 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 358 | 0 | |
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 368 | 0 | |
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 325 | 2 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 367 | 2 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 368 | 0 | |
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 368 | 3 | |
| UND-5 | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 324 | 1 |
Common — 90 to 95%
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-13 | Can an assistant ask your site a question directly? | 368 | 0 | |
| EXT-1 | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 368 | 0 | |
| PST-4 | Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read? | 368 | 0 | |
| EXT-4 | Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool? | 368 | 0 | |
| EXT-7 | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 15 | 0 | |
| UND-1 | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 368 | 2 |
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
Every site
Every 460, 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 1–100 of 460 · page 1 of 5
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA aaschool.ac.ukregister id 10008071; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Abingdon and Witney College abingdon-witney.ac.ukregister id 10000055; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Academy of Live Technology Ltd backstage-academy.co.ukregister id 10036456; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Accrington and Rossendale College nelson.ac.ukregister id 10004552; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 1 | |
| ACMET London College acmet.ac.ukblockedregister id 10092025; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Activate Learning activatelearning.ac.ukblockedregister id 10004927; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| All Nations Christian College Limited allnations.ac.ukregister id 10000216; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 31 | |
| Amity University [IN] London amity.ac.ukregister id 10032036; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Anglia Ruskin University anglia.ac.ukregister id 10000291; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Anglo Skills College angloskillscollege.ac.ukblockedregister id 10030497; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Apex College apexcollege.ac.ukblockedregister id 10041898; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Arden University arden.ac.ukregister id 10005451; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arts Educational Schools (The) artsed.co.ukregister id 10000381; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 75 | No | 32 | |
| Arts University Plymouth aup.ac.ukunreachableregister id 10005127; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Aston University aston.ac.ukregister id 10007759; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| ASU London asu-london.ac.ukblockedregister id 10083403; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Barnet & Southgate College barnetsouthgate.ac.ukblockedregister id 10000533; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Barnsley College barnsley.ac.ukregister id 10000536; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 1 | |
| Basingstoke College of Technology bcot.ac.ukregister id 10000560; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Bath College bathcollege.ac.ukregister id 10001465; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Bath Spa University bathspa.ac.ukregister id 10000571; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Bedford College and University Centre bedfordcollegegroup.ac.ukregister id 10000610; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| BIMM University bimm.ac.ukregister id 10037544; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Bird College birdcollege.co.ukregister id 10002011; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Birkbeck, University of London bbk.ac.ukregister id 10007760; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 5 | |
| Birmingham Christian College bccoll.ac.ukregister id 10007810; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Birmingham City University bcu.ac.ukregister id 10007140; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Birmingham Metropolitan College bmet.ac.ukblockedregister id 10006442; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Birmingham Newman University newman.ac.ukblockedregister id 10007832; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Bishop Auckland College bishopaucklandcollege.ac.ukregister id 10000720; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bishop Burton College bishopburton.ac.ukregister id 10000721; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Blackburn College & University Centre blackburn.ac.ukregister id 10000747; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Blackpool and the Fylde College blackpool.ac.ukregister id 10000754; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 31 | |
| Bloomsbury Institute bil.ac.ukregister id 10004061; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bolton College boltoncollege.ac.ukregister id 10000794; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Boston College boston.ac.ukregister id 10000812; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Bournemouth University bournemouth.ac.ukblockedregister id 10000824; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| BPP University bpp.comregister id 10031982; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Bradford College bradfordcollege.ac.ukregister id 10000840; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Bridgwater College somerset.ac.ukblockedregister id 10000878; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Bristol Baptist College bristol-baptist.ac.ukregister id 10000894; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| British Academy of Jewellery Limited baj.ac.ukblockedregister id 10038772; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| British College of Osteopathic Medicine bcom.ac.ukregister id 10000911; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Brockenhurst College brock.ac.ukregister id 10000944; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Brooklands College brooklands.ac.ukblockedregister id 10000950; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Brunel University London brunel.ac.ukregister id 10000961; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 31 | |
| Buckinghamshire College Group buckscollegegroup.ac.ukregister id 10000473; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Buckinghamshire New University bucks.ac.ukregister id 10000975; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Burnley College burnley.ac.ukregister id 10001000; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Burton and South Derbyshire College bsdc.ac.ukregister id 10001004; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 19 | |
| Bury College burycollege.ac.ukregister id 10001005; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Cambridge Regional College camre.ac.ukregister id 10001116; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts csvpa.comregister id 10010308; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Canterbury Christ Church University canterbury.ac.ukregister id 10001143; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Capital City College Group capitalccg.ac.ukregister id 10007455; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Cardinal Newman College cardinalnewman.ac.ukregister id 10001165; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carshalton College kingston-college.ac.ukregister id 10003674; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Caspian School of Academics caspianschool.ac.ukregister id 10086359; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Central Film School centralfilmschool.comregister id 10024024; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central School of Ballet centralschoolofballet.co.ukregister id 10001264; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Cheshire College South and West ccsw.ac.ukregister id 10005972; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| Chichester College Group chichester.ac.ukblockedregister id 10007817; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Chicken Shed Theatre Company chickenshed.org.ukregister id 10001386; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Christ the Redeemer College christredeemer.ac.ukregister id 10026921; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| City and Guilds of London Art School cityandguildsartschool.ac.ukregister id 10039082; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| City College Norwich ccn.ac.ukregister id 10004772; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| City College Plymouth cityplym.ac.ukblockedregister id 10005128; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| City of Bristol College cityofbristol.ac.ukblockedregister id 10001467; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| City of Portsmouth College city-of-portsmouth-college.ac.ukregister id 10007945; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| City of Westminster College cwc.ac.ukregister id 10001476; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 1 | |
| City of Wolverhampton College wolvcoll.ac.ukregister id 10007578; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Cliff College cliffcollege.ac.ukregister id 10007912; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Coastland College weymouth.ac.ukblockedregister id 10007469; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Colchester Institute colchester.ac.ukregister id 10001535; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Collective Acting Studio collectiveactingstudio.co.ukregister id 10091065; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| College of Medicine and Dentistry comd.org.ukblockedregister id 10083397; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Commonwealth College of Excellence cce.ac.ukregister id 10020038; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 21 | |
| Corndel College London corndel.comregister id 10089288; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| County Training hlcollege.ac.ukblockedregister id 10003023; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Court Theatre Training Company Ltd courttheatre.org.ukblockedregister id 10034324; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Courtauld Institute of Art courtauld.ac.ukregister id 10007761; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Coventry College coventrycollege.ac.ukregister id 10003010; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Coventry University London coventry.ac.ukregister id 10001726; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Cranfield University cranfield.ac.ukregister id 10007822; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Craven College craven-college.ac.ukregister id 10001743; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| David Game College dghe.ac.ukregister id 10015688; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | Gated | 32 | |
| DCG derby-college.ac.ukregister id 10001919; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 31 | |
| De Montfort University dmu.ac.ukregister id 10001883; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Doncaster College northlindsey.ac.ukregister id 10004695; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 31 | |
| Dudley College of Technology dudleycol.ac.ukregister id 10007924; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Durham University durham.ac.ukblockedregister id 10007143; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College wlc.ac.ukregister id 10002094; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| East Riding College tecpartnership.comregister id 10007938; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the published address is https://tecpartnership.com/about-tec-partnership/; cut to the site root | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| East Surrey College esc.ac.ukregister id 10002130; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Edge Hill University edgehill.ac.ukregister id 10007823; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| EKC Group ekcgroup.ac.ukblockedregister id 10006570; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| EM Normandie UK Limited em-normandie.co.ukregister id 10082026; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Emmanuel Theological College emmanueltheologicalcollege.org.ukblockedregister id 10032295; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Empire College London Limited ecl.acregister id 10022047; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 31 | |
| Engineering College of Technology Limited ect.collegeregister id 10089771; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | 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. Headline figures: summary.json (CC BY 4.0). The site-by-site data on this page is licensed; a bulk copy is from TEN7 for a fee.