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 101–200 of 460 · page 2 of 5
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escape Studios escapestudios.ac.ukblockedregister id 10042570; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| ESCP Europe Business School escpeurope.euregister id 10002313; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 1 | |
| European School of Economics ese.ac.ukregister id 10061489; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Exeter College exe-coll.ac.ukblockedregister id 10002370; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Fairfield School of Business Ltd fsb.ac.ukregister id 10033187; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Falmouth University falmouth.ac.ukblockedregister id 10008640; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Fashion Retail Academy fashionretailacademy.ac.ukblockedregister id 10009213; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Futureworks futureworks.ac.ukblockedregister id 10022087; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Gateshead College gateshead.ac.ukregister id 10002638; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Global Banking School Limited globalbanking.ac.ukregister id 10042500; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Gloucestershire College gloscol.ac.ukregister id 10002696; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 23 | |
| Goldsmiths, University of London gold.ac.ukregister id 10002718; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Grantham College grantham.ac.ukregister id 10002743; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Guildhall School of Music & Drama gsmd.ac.ukregister id 10007825; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Halesowen College halesowen.ac.ukregister id 10002852; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Hampshire Business School farn-ct.ac.ukregister id 10002412; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Harlow College harlow-college.ac.ukregister id 10002899; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | Gated | 32 | |
| Harper Adams University harper-adams.ac.ukregister id 10040812; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Harrow College hruc.ac.ukregister id 10007193; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 32 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hartpury University hartpury.ac.ukregister id 10080811; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Havant and South Downs College hsdc.ac.ukregister id 10005979; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Heart of Worcestershire College howcollege.ac.ukregister id 10007977; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Hereford College of Arts hca.ac.ukregister id 10003022; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hertford Regional College hrc.ac.ukregister id 10003035; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Higher Rhythm Limited higherrhythm.co.ukregister id 10020118; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Holy Cross College holycross.ac.ukregister id 10003128; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the published address is https://www.holycross.ac.uk/university-centre/; cut to the site root | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hopwood Hall College hopwood.ac.ukregister id 10003146; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| HSU aecc.ac.ukblockedregister id 10000163; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Hugh Baird College hughbaird.ac.ukregister id 10003193; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Hull College Group hull-college.ac.ukblockedregister id 10003200; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Hult International Business School (London) hult.eduregister id 10003212; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Hult International Business School (Hertfordshire) hult.eduregister id 10008899; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| ICON College of Technology & Management iconcollege.ac.ukregister id 10003239; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| Imperial College London imperial.ac.ukregister id 10003270; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Inchbald School of Design inchbald.co.ukblockedregister id 10003284; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Institute of Contemporary Music Performance icmp.ac.ukregister id 10035638; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| International Business College Manchester Limited internationalbusinesscollege.co.ukregister id 10042679; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| International Study Centre studygroup.comregister id 10008098; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| INTO University Partnerships Limited intoglobal.comregister id 10082728; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 17 | |
| ION ion.ac.ukregister id 10022040; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| Istituto Marangoni istitutomarangoni.comregister id 10009527; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the published address is https://www.istitutomarangoni.com/en; cut to the site root | 56 | No | 32 | |
| JCA jca.ac.ukregister id 10067601; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Kaplan International Pathways kaplanpathways.comregister id 10082570; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Keele University keele.ac.ukregister id 10007767; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 25 | |
| Kendal College kendal.ac.ukregister id 10003558; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| King's College London kcl.ac.ukregister id 10003645; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Kingston University kingston.ac.ukblockedregister id 10003678; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Kirklees College kirkleescollege.ac.ukregister id 10003189; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Laine Theatre Arts laine-theatre-arts.co.ukregister id 10003746; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Lakes College West Cumbria lcwc.ac.ukregister id 10003753; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| LAMDA lamda.ac.ukblockedregister id 10003758; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Lancaster University lancaster.ac.ukregister id 10007768; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Le Cordon Bleu Limited cordonbleu.eduregister id 10003798; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the published address is https://www.cordonbleu.edu/london; cut to the site root | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Learning Unlimited, Part of the Chesterfield College Group chesterfield.ac.ukblockedregister id 10001378; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Leeds Arts University leeds-art.ac.ukregister id 10003854; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| Leeds Beckett University leedsbeckett.ac.ukregister id 10003861; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Leeds College of Building lcb.ac.ukregister id 10003855; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Leeds Conservatoire leedsconservatoire.ac.ukregister id 10034449; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Leeds Trinity University leedstrinity.ac.ukregister id 10003863; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Leicester College leicestercollege.ac.ukregister id 10003867; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Lincoln Bishop University bishopg.ac.ukregister id 10007811; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln College University Centre lincolncollege.ac.ukblockedregister id 10003928; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| LIPA lipa.ac.ukregister id 10003945; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Liverpool Hope University hope.ac.ukregister id 10003956; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Liverpool John Moores University ljmu.ac.ukregister id 10003957; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine lstmed.ac.ukregister id 10003958; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| LMA lma.ac.ukregister id 10031239; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| London and South East University Group lase.ac.ukblockedregister id 10007146; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| London Bridge Business Academy lbbaglobal.comregister id 10013109; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 28 | |
| London Brookes College londonbrookescollege.co.ukregister id 10065543; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| London Business School london.eduregister id 10007769; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| London Churchill College lcc.ac.ukregister id 10030391; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 30 | |
| London College of Business Studies lcbs.co.ukregister id 10019368; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 1 | |
| London Film Academy londonfilmacademy.comregister id 10004035; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 36 | Gated | 31 | |
| London Film School lfs.org.ukregister id 10004036; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| London Metropolitan University londonmet.ac.ukregister id 10004048; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| London School of Academics londonschoolofacademics.comregister id 10032594; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 20 | |
| London School of Commerce & IT lsci.org.ukregister id 10023434; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 30 | |
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine lshtm.ac.ukblockedregister id 10007771; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| London School of Innovation lsi.ac.ukregister id 10091282; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| London School of Jewish Studies lsjs.ac.ukblockedregister id 10029147; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| London School of Management Education lsme.ac.ukregister id 10022285; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| London School of Science & Technology lsst.acregister id 10008362; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| London School of Theology lst.ac.ukregister id 10004075; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| London South East Colleges lsec.ac.ukregister id 10000948; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| London Studio Centre londonstudiocentre.orgregister id 10004079; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Loughborough College Group loucoll.ac.ukregister id 10004112; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Loughborough University lboro.ac.ukregister id 10004113; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| LSBU lsbu.ac.ukblockedregister id 10004078; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Luther King lutherking.ac.ukregister id 10009612; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Manchester Metropolitan University www2.mmu.ac.ukregister id 10004180; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 1 | |
| Matrix College matrix.ac.ukregister id 10023453; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 24 | |
| MetFilm School metfilmschool.ac.ukblockedregister id 10045476; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Middlesbrough College mbro.ac.ukblockedregister id 10004344; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Middlesex University mdx.ac.ukregister id 10004351; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| MidKent College midkent.ac.ukregister id 10004340; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Milton Keynes College mkcollege.ac.ukregister id 10004375; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Ming-Ai (London) Institute ming-ai.org.ukregister id 10004389; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 1 | |
| Missio Dei missiodei.ac.ukregister id 10020416; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 21 | |
| MLA College mla.ac.ukregister id 10049370; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. 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.