Biomedical Engineering Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 306 biomedical engineering schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 278 biomedical engineering schools have some social media presence, having accounts on at least one of the three major social media outlets, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Of the schools that have a social media presence, the greatest number, almost 95% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 60.1% of the 306 biomedical engineering schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 17.6% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (7.5%), black (6.5%) and yellow (3.6%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on biomedical engineering school websites.

The colors used on the websites of the largest biomedical engineering schools in the nation, are as follows:

1. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%
2. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%
3. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%

Font

The largest number, nearly 45.8%, of biomedical engineering school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on biomedical engineering school websites include Verdana (24.5%) and Helvetica (7.2%).

The largest biomedical engineering school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Arizona State University: Arial
2. Miami Dade College: Arial
3. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 208 biomedical engineering schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 1,114 YouTube channel subscribers. The biomedical engineering schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 113,180 subscribers
2. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers
3. Carnegie Mellon University: 16,128 subscribers

Exactly 237 biomedical engineering schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 3,444 Twitter account followers. The biomedical engineering schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers
2. Yale University: 23,748 followers
3. Texas A & M University - College Station: 19,518 followers

Web Metrics

Although all biomedical engineering schools have websites, only about 16% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 84.1% of biomedical engineering school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The biomedical engineering schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Creighton University: 7,788 broken links
2. Northwest Nazarene University: 2,919 broken links
3. University of New Haven: 1,665 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on biomedical engineering school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The biomedical engineering school websites with the cleanest websites, i.e., least number of HTML and CSS validation errors are:

1. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Foothill College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Berkeley City College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The biomedical engineering school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. University of Colorado Denver: 0 HTML validation errors; 794 CSS validation errors
2. Old Dominion University: 0 HTML validation errors; 615 CSS validation errors
3. ECPI College of Technology: 11 HTML validation errors; 588 CSS validation errors