Healthcare Administration Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 866 healthcare administration schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 600 healthcare administration 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 65.2% of the 866 healthcare administration schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 16.9% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (5.3%), yellow (4.3%) and black (3.6%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on healthcare administration school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: white 56% and blue 1.1%
3. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%

Font

The largest number, nearly 46.2%, of healthcare administration school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on healthcare administration school websites include Verdana (22.9%) and Helvetica (6%).

The largest healthcare administration school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: Times New Roman
3. Arizona State University: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 387 healthcare administration schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 221 YouTube channel subscribers. The healthcare administration schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Carnegie Mellon University: 16,128 subscribers
2. University of Minnesota - Duluth: 4,518 subscribers
3. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 2,942 subscribers

Exactly 449 healthcare administration schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,692 Twitter account followers. The healthcare administration schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
2. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers
3. Auburn University: 17,795 followers

Web Metrics

Although all healthcare administration schools have websites, only about 26% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 74.6% of healthcare administration school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The healthcare administration schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 broken links
2. College of Saint Mary: 23,650 broken links
3. Creighton University: 7,788 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on healthcare administration school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The healthcare administration 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. Kaplan College - San Diego: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. University of Connecticut: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The healthcare administration school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. Pennsylvania School of Business: 0 HTML validation errors; 800 CSS validation errors
2. University of Colorado Denver: 0 HTML validation errors; 794 CSS validation errors
3. Roane-Jackson Technical Center: 654 HTML validation errors; 7 CSS validation errors