Design Schools in Virginia Site Evaluation

There are a total of 29 design schools in Virginia state. With 46,619 students, Northern Virginia Community College is the largest design school in the state of Virginia.

Northern Virginia Community College is a social media - savvy school with not only a website, but also a Facebook page, Twitter account and YouTube channel. Northern Virginia Community College has 4,929 "likes" on Facebook, 1,185 followers on Twitter and 487 subscribers on YouTube.

Visual Preferences

Color

Exactly 16 of the 29 design schools with websites use white as the primary color on their websites. Another color used as the predominant color on Virginia design school websites is yellow (13.8%).

The colors used on the websites for the largest design schools in Virginia are as follows:

1. Northern Virginia Community College: white 11% and grey 4.6%
2. Liberty University: white 12% and red 5.1%
3. Virginia Commonwealth University: green 7% and grey 6.2%

Font

In Virginia, the most popular font style on design school websites is Arial. Approximately 34.5% of design schools in Virginia use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on design school websites include Verdana (31%) and Georgia (6.9%).

The largest Virginia design schools' websites use the following fonts:

1. Northern Virginia Community College: Trebuchet
2. Liberty University: Georgia
3. Virginia Commonwealth University: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 19 design schools in Virginia have Facebook pages. On average, each of these schools has 11,431 "likes" on their Facebook pages. The Virginia design schools with the greatest number of "likes" are:

1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: 78,392 "likes"
2. Liberty University: 53,273 "likes"
3. Virginia Commonwealth University: 44,591 "likes"

Exactly 14 design schools in Virginia have Youtube channels. On average, each of these schools has 233 Youtube channel subscribers. The Virginia design schools with the greatest number of Youtube channel subscribers are:

1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: 1,231 subscribers
2. Liberty University: 920 subscribers
3. Northern Virginia Community College: 487 subscribers

The Virginia design schools whose websites have been bookmarked the most number of times on Delicious are:

1. University of Phoenix - Northern Virginia Campus: 241 Delicious bookmarks
2. Virginia Commonwealth University: 204 Delicious bookmarks
3. Northern Virginia Community College: 85 Delicious bookmarks

Web Metrics

Of all of the Virginia design school websites, the one that receives the greatest number of unique visitors belongs to University of Phoenix - Northern Virginia Campus. This is indicated by the fact that University of Phoenix - Northern Virginia Campus's site has a Compete Rank of 595, the highest Compete Rank of design school websites in Virginia.

And the Virginia design school website that is considered the most authoritative by SEOMoz belongs to University of Phoenix - Northern Virginia Campus. It has a SEOMoz Page Authority rank of 85.1.

It is interesting to compare this data with the statistics for the largest design schools in Virginia:

School	Compete Rank	SEOMoz Page Authority
Northern Virginia Community College	10,723	59.1
Liberty University	7,047	78.4
Virginia Commonwealth University	7,949	81.1