Computer Engineering Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 414 computer engineering schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 376 computer 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 98% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 60.4% of the 414 computer engineering schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 15.2% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (6.5%), black (6%) and yellow (5.3%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on computer engineering school websites.

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

1. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
3. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%

Font

The largest number, nearly 45.7%, of computer engineering school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on computer engineering school websites include Verdana (22.9%) and Helvetica (7.7%).

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

1. Arizona State University: Arial
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica
3. Houston Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 284 computer engineering schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 372 YouTube channel subscribers. The computer engineering schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Carnegie Mellon University: 16,128 subscribers
2. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers
3. Princeton University: 3,028 subscribers

Exactly 334 computer engineering schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,632 Twitter account followers. The computer engineering schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers
2. Texas A & M University - College Station: 19,518 followers
3. Ohio State University - Main Campus: 18,232 followers

Web Metrics

Although all computer engineering schools have websites, only about 17% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 83.4% of computer engineering school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The computer engineering schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. University of Michigan - Dearborn: 5,490 broken links
2. Eastern Washington University: 4,378 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 computer engineering school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The computer engineering 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. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. University of Connecticut: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Old Dominion University: 0 HTML validation errors; 615 CSS validation errors
2. University of Nebraska - Lincoln: 0 HTML validation errors; 420 CSS validation errors
3. University of Scranton: 0 HTML validation errors; 376 CSS validation errors