Emergency Management Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 59 emergency management schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 22 emergency 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 96% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 76.3% of the 59 emergency management schools use grey as the primary color on their websites. Another 20.3% use white as the primary color on their websites. Green (1.7%) and blue (1.7%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on emergency management school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. American Public University System: white 32% and yellow 3%
3. Rochester Institute of Technology: white 17% and green 4.8%

Font

The largest number, nearly 83.1%, of emergency management school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on emergency management school websites include Verdana (8.5%) and Myriad Pro (1.7%).

The largest emergency management school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. American Public University System: Sans serif
3. Rochester Institute of Technology: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 14 emergency management schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 306 YouTube channel subscribers. The emergency management schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 2,942 subscribers
2. Rochester Institute of Technology: 567 subscribers
3. American Public University System: 340 subscribers

Exactly 16 emergency management schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,105 Twitter account followers. The emergency management schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
2. University of Idaho: 2,152 followers
3. Arkansas Tech University: 1,596 followers

Web Metrics

Although all emergency management schools have websites, only about 7% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 93.2% of emergency management school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The emergency management schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Forsyth Technical Community College: 521 broken links
2. Upper Iowa University: 259 broken links
3. Rochester Institute of Technology: 240 broken links

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

1. Southwestern College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Community College of the Air Force: 8 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Arkansas Tech University: 3 HTML validation errors; 7 CSS validation errors

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

1. University of Phoenix - Dallas Campus: 31 HTML validation errors; 206 CSS validation errors
2. University of Phoenix - Springfield Campus: 31 HTML validation errors; 206 CSS validation errors
3. University of Phoenix - Houston Campus: 27 HTML validation errors; 206 CSS validation errors