Showing Ivy League sites. All education sites
The eight Ivy League universities.
F 43
Average readability score of 7 fully scanned Ivy League sites
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of 9 lists, ranked by average readability score
7 of 8
Ivy league sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 1, so they're listed without grades
F 56
Average readability score of all 2,687 fully scanned education sites
How Ivy League readability scores are distributed
Smoothed distribution of the 7 fully scanned Ivy League sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.
Distribution of 7 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.
- Ivy League average
- All education average
View the data table
| Score range | Sites |
|---|---|
| 0 to 9 | 4 |
| 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 | 0 |
| 80 to 89 | 0 |
| 90 to 100 | 3 |
Ivy League by readability grade, compared with all education sites
Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Ivy League: 7 sites. All education: 2687 sites.
- A (90 to 100)
- B to C (70 to 89)
- D to F (below 70)
View the data table
| Group | A (90 to 100) | B to C (70 to 89) | D to F (below 70) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivy League | 43% (3) | 0% (0) | 57% (4) |
| All education sites | 53% (1,425) | 0% (0) | 41% (1,110) |
Top 3 Ivy League sites by readability score
#1 in Ivy League · U.S. education rank 1
Cornell University
A 100 readability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security A
- Usability F
- Readability A
#1 in Ivy League · U.S. education rank 1
Dartmouth College
A 100 readability
- Accessibility B
- Botability B
- Security B
- Usability F
- Readability A
#1 in Ivy League · U.S. education rank 1
University of Pennsylvania
A 100 readability
- Accessibility A
- Botability B
- Security C
- Usability D
- Readability A
What each check means
- Reading level. Page text reads at or below a 7th grade level so most users can understand it. Users struggle to understand your content.
Every education site with one problem
- Education websites that are hard to read: 1,110 of 2,535 fully scanned education sites (44%), with every site listed.
Ivy League by readability score
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
cornell.edu
Cornell University U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
home.dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
brown.edu
Brown University U.S. rank 110 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
harvard.edu
Harvard University U.S. rank 22 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
princeton.edu
Princeton University U.S. rank 24 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
yale.edu
Yale University U.S. rank 74 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
|
columbia.edu
Columbia University in the City of New York |
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 readability
Write content at a reading level most users can understand.
Why it's important
Plain language helps people understand services and procedures the first time, reducing calls, errors and office visits.
Risks
- Users cannot understand your content.
Guidance
What we use to grade readability:
- 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA)
- Automated Readability Index (ARI)
- Flesch–Kincaid readability tests
- U.S. Federal Website Standards
- Plain Writing Act of 2010
Standards
Grades/scores
ScanGov
About this ranking
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 11/7/2026 and 11/8/2026. 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.