Showing Big Ten Conference member sites. All education sites
Members of the Big Ten Conference (NCAA Division I), from the NCAA membership directory. Conferences change membership every year; this list follows the directory's current academic year.
B 86
Average overall score of 15 fully scanned Big Ten Conference member sites
6th
of 96 conferences, ranked by average overall score
15 of 16
Big ten conference member sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 1, so they're listed without grades
B 85
Average overall score of all 2,687 fully scanned education sites
How Big Ten Conference overall scores are distributed
Smoothed distribution of the 15 fully scanned Big Ten Conference member sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.
Distribution of 15 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.
- Big Ten Conference average
- All education average
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| Score range | Sites |
|---|---|
| 0 to 9 | 0 |
| 10 to 19 | 0 |
| 20 to 29 | 0 |
| 30 to 39 | 0 |
| 40 to 49 | 0 |
| 50 to 59 | 0 |
| 60 to 69 | 0 |
| 70 to 79 | 4 |
| 80 to 89 | 6 |
| 90 to 100 | 5 |
Big Ten Conference by overall grade, compared with all education sites
Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Big Ten Conference: 15 sites. All education: 2687 sites.
- A (90 to 100)
- B to C (70 to 89)
- D to F (below 70)
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| Group | A (90 to 100) | B to C (70 to 89) | D to F (below 70) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Ten Conference | 33% (5) | 67% (10) | 0% (0) |
| All education sites | 25% (659) | 73% (1,965) | 2% (63) |
Big Ten Conference average score by indicator, compared with all education sites
Average of the 15 fully scanned Big Ten Conference member sites, score 0 to 100. The comparison covers 2687 fully scanned education sites.
- Big Ten Conference
- All education
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| Indicator | Big Ten Conference average | All education average |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 96 | 91 |
| Botability | 87 | 89 |
| Security | 88 | 85 |
| Usability | 65 | 68 |
| Readability | 29 | 56 |
Top 3 Big Ten Conference member sites by overall score
#1 in Big Ten Conference · U.S. education rank 5
Purdue University-Main Campus
A 96 overall
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security C
- Usability A
- Readability A
#1 in Big Ten Conference · U.S. education rank 5
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A 96 overall
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability A
- Readability F
#2 in Big Ten Conference · U.S. education rank 7
University of Iowa
A 94 overall
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security A
- Usability B
- Readability A
Most common failures by indicator
The check Big Ten Conference member sites fail most often in each indicator. Each indicator page lists the top five.
- 27% (4 of 15 sites) fail this accessibility check: Elements with visible text labels have matching accessible names. A button or link's visible label matches what screen readers announce. More accessibility failures.
- 47% (7 of 15 sites) fail this botability check: Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. More botability failures.
- 60% (9 of 15 sites) fail this security check: X-Content-Type-Options. The site tells browsers not to guess the type of files it serves. More security failures.
- 67% (10 of 15 sites) fail this usability check: First Contentful Paint (FCP). The page starts displaying content within 1.8 seconds. More usability failures.
- 67% (10 of 15 sites) fail this readability check: Reading level. Page text reads at or below a 7th grade level so most users can understand it. More readability failures.
Big Ten Conference members by overall score
| Rank | Site | Indicator grades | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
purdue.edu
Purdue University-Main Campus U.S. rank 5 |
|
A |
| 1 |
illinois.edu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign U.S. rank 5 |
|
A |
| 2 |
uiowa.edu
University of Iowa U.S. rank 7 |
|
A |
| 2 |
usc.edu
University of Southern California U.S. rank 7 |
|
A |
| 3 |
umd.edu
University of Maryland-College Park U.S. rank 11 |
|
A |
| 4 |
crk.umn.edu
University of Minnesota-Crookston U.S. rank 13 |
|
B |
| 4 |
wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin-Madison U.S. rank 13 |
|
B |
| 5 |
psu.edu
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 15 |
|
B |
| 6 |
ucla.edu
University of California-Los Angeles U.S. rank 17 |
|
B |
| 7 |
uoregon.edu
University of Oregon U.S. rank 18 |
|
B |
| 8 |
washington.edu
University of Washington-Seattle Campus U.S. rank 19 |
|
B |
| 9 |
northwestern.edu
Northwestern University U.S. rank 22 |
|
C |
| 10 |
unl.edu
University of Nebraska-Lincoln U.S. rank 23 |
|
C |
| 11 |
msu.edu
Michigan State University U.S. rank 26 |
|
C |
| 12 |
osu.edu
Ohio State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 27 |
|
C |
|
umich.edu
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't scan your site because it showed our bot a captcha or browser check instead of the page. Status 996 | - |
About this data
ScanGov scans the homepage of each college and university site on our higher education list. Scores come from the checks in the ScanGov standards. Sites were scanned between 10/27/2026 and 11/7/2026. Each site's report shows its own scan date. A site counts as fully scanned when its homepage loaded and sent us its page content. Averages, grade shares, failure rates, and ranks use fully scanned sites only. We could not fully scan 1 sites. They did not respond, blocked the scanner, or sent no page content. They appear in the table without grades, with their scan status, and are left out of every figure. Grades follow the ScanGov grade scale. Rank follows the ScanGov ranking method. The full dataset, with every county's raw results, is in the ScanGov data repository.