Construction Management Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 616 construction management schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 442 construction management 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 94% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 74.7% of the 616 construction management schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 9.4% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (4.9%), black (3.6%) and yellow (3.1%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on construction management school websites.

The colors used on the websites of the largest construction management 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 35.7%, of construction management school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on construction management school websites include Verdana (34.3%) and Helvetica (5.8%).

The largest construction management 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 267 construction management schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 145 YouTube channel subscribers. The construction management schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers
2. Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus: 2,357 subscribers
3. Arizona State University: 1,796 subscribers

Exactly 323 construction management schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,330 Twitter account followers. The construction management 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 construction management schools have websites, only about 24% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 76.2% of construction management school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The construction management schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 broken links
2. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
3. Independence Community College: 6,000 broken links

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

1. Miami Lakes Educational Center: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Miami Dade College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Seminole State College of Florida: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The construction management 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. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Western Oklahoma State College: 71 HTML validation errors; 371 CSS validation errors