Visual Communications Schools in Pennsylvania Site Evaluation

There are a total of 63 visual communications schools in Pennsylvania state. With 45,185 students, Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus is the largest visual communications school in the state of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus is a social media - savvy school with not only a website, but also a Facebook page, Twitter account and YouTube channel. Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus has 230,697 "likes" on Facebook, 7,211 followers on Twitter and 2,357 subscribers on YouTube.

Visual Preferences

Color

Exactly 37 of the 63 visual communications schools with websites use white as the primary color on their websites. Another color used as the predominant color on Pennsylvania visual communications school websites is black (15.9%).

The colors used on the websites for the largest visual communications schools in Pennsylvania are as follows:

1. Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus: blue 65%
2. University of Pennsylvania: purple 1.9% and red 1.4%
3. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: grey 7.5% and white 7%

Font

In Pennsylvania, the most popular font style on visual communications school websites is Verdana. Approximately 36.5% of visual communications schools in Pennsylvania use Verdana as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on visual communications school websites include Arial (30.2%) and Helvetica (7.9%).

The largest Pennsylvania visual communications schools' websites use the following fonts:

1. Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus: Arial
2. University of Pennsylvania: Helvetica
3. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: Verdana

Social Presence

Exactly 50 visual communications schools in Pennsylvania have Facebook pages. On average, each of these schools has 8,908 "likes" on their Facebook pages. The Pennsylvania visual communications schools with the greatest number of "likes" are:

1. Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus: 230,697 "likes"
2. Carnegie Mellon University: 26,974 "likes"
3. University of Pennsylvania: 24,256 "likes"

Exactly 35 visual communications schools in Pennsylvania have Youtube channels. On average, each of these schools has 637 Youtube channel subscribers. The Pennsylvania visual communications schools with the greatest number of Youtube channel subscribers are:

1. Carnegie Mellon University: 16,128 subscribers
2. Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus: 2,357 subscribers
3. University of Pennsylvania: 2,012 subscribers

The Pennsylvania visual communications schools whose websites have been bookmarked the most number of times on Delicious are:

1. Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus: 417 Delicious bookmarks
2. Carnegie Mellon University: 349 Delicious bookmarks
3. University of Pennsylvania: 221 Delicious bookmarks

Web Metrics

Of all of the Pennsylvania visual communications school websites, the one that receives the greatest number of unique visitors belongs to ITT Technical Institute - Pittsburgh. This is indicated by the fact that ITT Technical Institute - Pittsburgh's site has a Compete Rank of 1,173, the highest Compete Rank of visual communications school websites in Pennsylvania.

And the Pennsylvania visual communications school website that is considered the most authoritative by SEOMoz belongs to Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus. It has a SEOMoz Page Authority rank of 84.9.

It is interesting to compare this data with the statistics for the largest visual communications schools in Pennsylvania:

School	Compete Rank	SEOMoz Page Authority
Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus	1,406	84.9
University of Pennsylvania	2,360	84
Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg	17,820	62.5