Bsn Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 1,753 bsn schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 1,495 bsn 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 96% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 66.5% of the 1,753 bsn schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 11.5% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (6.6%), yellow (5.9%) and black (4.1%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on bsn school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%
3. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%

Font

The largest number, nearly 41.8%, of bsn school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on bsn school websites include Verdana (26%) and Tahoma (5.8%).

The largest bsn school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Arizona State University: Arial
3. Miami Dade College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 976 bsn schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 132 YouTube channel subscribers. The bsn schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers
2. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers
3. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 2,942 subscribers

Exactly 1,142 bsn schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,177 Twitter account followers. The bsn schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
2. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers
3. Yale University: 23,748 followers

Web Metrics

Although all bsn schools have websites, only about 22% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 78.2% of bsn school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The bsn schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 broken links
2. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
3. College of Saint Mary: 23,650 broken links

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

1. Pima Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Gavilan College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Chippewa Valley Technical College: 121 HTML validation errors; 942 CSS validation errors
2. Bergen Community College: 178 HTML validation errors; 869 CSS validation errors
3. Spoon River College: 68 HTML validation errors; 871 CSS validation errors