Project Management Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 27 project management schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 21 project 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 100% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 40.7% of the 27 project management schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 33.3% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (7.4%), yellow (7.4%) and black (3.7%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on project management school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Walden University: white 34% and yellow 1.2%
3. Central New Mexico Community College: white 39% and blue 1.9%

Font

The largest number, nearly 44.4%, of project management school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on project management school websites include Helvetica (14.8%) and Verdana (11.1%).

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Walden University: Georgia
3. Central New Mexico Community College: Verdana

Social Presence

Exactly 14 project management schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 346 YouTube channel subscribers. The project 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. Dunwoody College of Technology: 359 subscribers

Exactly 17 project management schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 3,046 Twitter account followers. The project management schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
2. George Washington University: 8,075 followers
3. Brandeis University: 4,636 followers

Web Metrics

Although all project management schools have websites, only about 4% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 96.3% of project management school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The project management schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. George Washington University: 1,094 broken links
2. Brandeis University: 484 broken links
3. Avila University: 465 broken links

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

1. Dunwoody College of Technology: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Brandeis University: 1 HTML validation errors; 5 CSS validation errors
3. University of Wisconsin - Platteville: 4 HTML validation errors; 3 CSS validation errors

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

1. Metropolitan State University: 435 HTML validation errors; 5 CSS validation errors
2. University of Phoenix - Phoenix - Hohokam Campus: 23 HTML validation errors; 198 CSS validation errors
3. Walden University: 221 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors