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 201–300 of 460 · page 3 of 5
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont Rose College of Management and Sciences Limited mrcollege.ac.ukregister id 10023777; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 30 | |
| Moorlands College moorlands.ac.ukregister id 10023454; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Morley College London morleycollege.ac.ukregister id 10004432; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Moulton College moulton.ac.ukregister id 10004442; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts mountview.org.ukblockedregister id 10004450; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Multiverse multiverse.ioregister id 10055902; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Myerscough College myerscough.ac.ukregister id 10004478; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| National Centre for Circus Arts nationalcircus.org.ukregister id 10001444; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 31 | |
| Navitas UK Holdings Limited nukh.navitas.comregister id 10053304; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 15 | |
| Nazarene Theological College nazarene.ac.ukregister id 10004538; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nelson College London Limited nelsoncollege.ac.ukregister id 10030129; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| New City College ncclondon.ac.ukblockedregister id 10006963; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| New College Durham University Centre newcollegedurham.ac.ukregister id 10004576; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| New College Swindon newcollege.ac.ukregister id 10004579; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) nmite.ac.ukregister id 10067406; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Newbold College newbold.ac.ukregister id 10023456; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Newcastle College ncgrp.co.ukregister id 10004599; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 27 | |
| Newcastle University ncl.ac.ukregister id 10007799; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme College nscg.ac.ukregister id 10004603; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Newham College of Further Education newham.ac.ukblockedregister id 10004607; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Norland University of Early Childhood norland.ac.ukblockedregister id 10008397; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| North East Surrey College of Technology (NESCOT) nescot.ac.ukblockedregister id 10004686; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| North Hertfordshire College Further Education Corporation nhc.ac.ukregister id 10004690; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| North Kent College northkent.ac.ukregister id 10004721; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 1 | |
| North London NHS Foundation Trust northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.ukregister id 10099196; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College nwhc.ac.ukregister id 10004718; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Northampton College northamptoncollege.ac.ukregister id 10007011; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Northeastern University London nchlondon.ac.ukblockedregister id 10048199; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Northern College of Acupuncture nca.ac.ukblockedregister id 10004740; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Northern School of Contemporary Dance nscd.ac.ukregister id 10008816; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Northumbria University northumbria.ac.ukregister id 10001282; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Norwich University of the Arts norwichuni.ac.ukregister id 10004775; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Nottingham College nottinghamcollege.ac.ukregister id 10004577; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Nottingham Trent University ntu.ac.ukblockedregister id 10004797; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Oaklands College oaklands.ac.ukregister id 10004835; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| ONCAMPUS oncampus.globalregister id 10057213; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Oxford Brookes University brookes.ac.ukregister id 10004930; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 2 | |
| Oxford International Education Group oxfordinternational.comregister id 10064423; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oxford University ox.ac.ukblockedregister id 10007774; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Peking University HSBC Business School UK Campus pku.org.ukregister id 10083464; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 39 | Gated | 20 | |
| Peter Symonds College psc.ac.ukregister id 10005072; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the published address is https://www.psc.ac.uk/ahed; cut to the site root | 53 | No | 14 | |
| Plumpton College plumpton.ac.ukblockedregister id 10005124; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Plymouth Marjon University marjon.ac.ukregister id 10037449; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Point Blank Music College pointblankmusicschool.comblockedregister id 10019178; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Preston’s College preston.ac.ukregister id 10005200; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Queen Mary University of London qmul.ac.ukregister id 10007775; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Raindance raindance.orgregister id 10062833; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rambert School rambertschool.org.ukregister id 10005378; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ravensbourne University London ravensbourne.ac.ukregister id 10005389; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Regent College London rcl.ac.ukregister id 10008455; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Regent's University London regents.ac.ukblockedregister id 10086591; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Regents Theological College elim.org.ukregister id 10021100; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| Results Consortium Limited resultsco.org.ukregister id 10023871; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Richmond, The American International University in London richmond.ac.ukblockedregister id 10005470; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Riverside College riverside.ac.ukblockedregister id 10002863; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| RNN Group rotherham.ac.ukregister id 10005534; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance bruford.ac.ukblockedregister id 10005523; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Royal Academy of Dance Enterprises Limited royalacademyofdance.orgblockedregister id 10005544; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Royal Academy of Dramatic Art rada.ac.ukregister id 10009292; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 9 | |
| Royal College of Music rcm.ac.ukregister id 10007778; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Royal Holloway, University of London rhul.ac.ukregister id 10005553; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 1 | |
| Royal Northern College of Music rncm.ac.ukblockedregister id 10007837; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Royal School of Needlework (The) royal-needlework.org.ukregister id 10020436; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| S P Jain London School of Management Limited spjain.ac.ukregister id 10088214; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 21 | |
| Salford City College salfordcc.ac.ukregister id 10005032; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| School of Oriental and African Studies soas.ac.ukregister id 10007780; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Schumacher College dartington.orgregister id 10026767; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 27 | |
| Sheffield College, The sheffcol.ac.ukregister id 10005788; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Sheffield Hallam University shu.ac.ukregister id 10005790; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Shrewsbury College scg.ac.ukregister id 10005822; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 1 | |
| SIRM College sirm.ac.ukregister id 10057622; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| SK College Group sthelens.ac.ukregister id 10006174; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Solihull College and University Centre solihull.ac.ukregister id 10005946; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sotheby's Institute of Art - London sothebysinstitute.comblockedregister id 10013220; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| South & City College Birmingham sccb.ac.ukregister id 10005967; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 36 | Gated | 32 | |
| South Gloucestershire and Stroud College sgscol.ac.ukregister id 10036143; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| South Hampshire College Group shcg.ac.ukblockedregister id 10007928; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| South Tyneside College tynecoast.ac.ukregister id 10005999; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 7 | |
| Southampton Solent University solent.ac.ukregister id 10006022; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Sparsholt College sparsholt.ac.ukregister id 10006050; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 3 | |
| St George’s Hospital Medical School citystgeorges.ac.ukblockedregister id 10001478; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| St Hild sthild.orgregister id 10004747; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 1 | |
| St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London stmarys.ac.ukregister id 10007843; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| St Mellitus College stmellitus.ac.ukregister id 10030776; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Stockport College trafford.ac.ukregister id 10005998; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stratford College London (SCL) sclondon.ac.ukregister id 10022944; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 39 | No | 1 | |
| Sunderland College sunderlandcollege.ac.ukregister id 10001475; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Sysco Business Skills Academy Limited sysco.uk.comregister id 10013122; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tameside College tameside.ac.ukregister id 10006494; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 32 | |
| Teesside University tees.ac.ukregister id 10007161; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Telford College telfordcollege.ac.ukregister id 10006549; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| The Academy of Contemporary Music acm.ac.ukblockedregister id 10067853; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| The Arts University Bournemouth aub.ac.ukregister id 10000385; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| The Bournemouth and Poole College thecollege.co.ukregister id 10000820; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| The Cambridge Theological Federation theofed.cam.ukregister id 10032072; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 1 | |
| The City College citycollege.ac.ukregister id 10010213; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 30 | |
| The City of Liverpool College University Centre liv-coll.ac.ukregister id 10003955; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| The College of Legal Practice collegalpractice.comregister id 10082828; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| The Cornwall College Group cornwall.ac.ukregister id 10001696; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| The Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology dysoninstitute.comblockedregister id 10067355; address from OfS Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. 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.