Interior Design Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 334 interior design schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 258 interior design 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 95% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 65.3% of the 334 interior design schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 14.7% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Black (7.2%), blue (4.8%) and yellow (3.9%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on interior design school websites.

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

1. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
2. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: white 28% and grey 3.2%

Font

The largest number, nearly 46.4%, of interior design school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on interior design school websites include Verdana (17.1%) and Helvetica (8.1%).

The largest interior design school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica
2. Houston Community College: Arial
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 187 interior design schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 202 YouTube channel subscribers. The interior design schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Oregon State University: 2,420 subscribers
2. The New School: 2,231 subscribers
3. Auburn University: 2,016 subscribers

Exactly 217 interior design schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,094 Twitter account followers. The interior design schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: 18,232 followers
3. Auburn University: 17,795 followers

Web Metrics

Although all interior design schools have websites, only about 26% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 74.9% of interior design school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The interior design schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Southern Utah University: 2,249 broken links
2. FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - Los Angeles: 1,853 broken links
3. FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising - San Francisco: 1,833 broken links

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

1. Kaplan College - Sacramento: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Monterey Peninsula College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Norwalk Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The interior design school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point: 0 HTML validation errors; 1,213 CSS validation errors
2. Moore College of Art and Design: 2 HTML validation errors; 566 CSS validation errors
3. Alexandria Technical & Community College: 14 HTML validation errors; 516 CSS validation errors