Electrical Engineering Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 987 electrical engineering schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 786 electrical 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 96% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 67.9% of the 987 electrical engineering schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 12.2% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (6%), black (4.8%) and yellow (4.2%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on electrical engineering school websites.

The colors used on the websites of the largest electrical 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 39.3%, of electrical engineering school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on electrical engineering school websites include Verdana (33.5%) and Helvetica (5.5%).

The largest electrical 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 543 electrical engineering schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 482 YouTube channel subscribers. The electrical 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 629 electrical engineering schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,884 Twitter account followers. The electrical 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 electrical engineering schools have websites, only about 20% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 80.7% of electrical engineering school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The electrical engineering schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
2. Blue Ridge Community College: 6,741 broken links
3. University of Michigan - Dearborn: 5,490 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on electrical engineering school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The electrical 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. University of Connecticut: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Rensselaer Hartford Graduate Center Inc: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Bergen Community College: 178 HTML validation errors; 869 CSS validation errors
2. Alabama A & M University: 63 HTML validation errors; 905 CSS validation errors
3. Spoon River College: 68 HTML validation errors; 871 CSS validation errors