Maine college websites: readability rankings

Readability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 13 public and 12 private college and university websites in Maine, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 25
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Maine college and university sites. All education sites

Public colleges and universities in Maine are ranked and averaged together; private nonprofit institutions are listed below with their own average.

F 55

Average readability score of 12 fully scanned Maine public college sites

20th

of 48 states and territories, ranked by average readability score

12 of 13

Maine public college 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 Maine readability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 12 fully scanned Maine public college sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Maine average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 95
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 390
40 to 490
50 to 590
60 to 690
70 to 790
80 to 890
90 to 1006

Maine by readability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Maine: 12 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Maine
  2. All education sites
  • A (90 to 100)
  • B to C (70 to 89)
  • D to F (below 70)
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GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
Maine50% (6)0% (0)42% (5)
All education sites53% (1,425)0% (0)41% (1,110)

Top 3 Maine public college sites by readability score

#1 in Maine · U.S. education rank 1

Kennebec Valley Community College

A 100 readability

  • Accessibility B
  • Botability A
  • Security C
  • Usability B
  • Readability A

#1 in Maine · U.S. education rank 1

Southern Maine Community College

A 100 readability

  • Accessibility B
  • Botability A
  • Security B
  • Usability B
  • Readability A

#1 in Maine · U.S. education rank 1

University of Maine

A 100 readability

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security B
  • Usability B
  • Readability A

Most common readability failures among Maine public college sites

Share of the 12 fully scanned Maine public college sites failing each check. A site can fail more than one check. Each check links to the sites failing it, or to its standard when we have no list yet.

  1. Reading level42%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Reading level42%5

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

Maine public 4-year institutions by readability score

7 sites, 6 fully scanned, average readability score 67 (D). Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 umaine.edu
University of Maine U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
1 uma.edu
University of Maine at Augusta U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
1 umpi.edu
University of Maine at Presque Isle U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
1 usm.maine.edu
University of Southern Maine U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
2 mainemaritime.edu
Maine Maritime Academy U.S. rank 196 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 maine.edu
University of Maine-System Central Office U.S. rank 100 		0 of 1 checks pass F
umfk.maine.edu
University of Maine at Fort Kent 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't scan your site because its security certificate didn't pass validation. Status 993 -

Maine public 2-year institutions by readability score

6 sites, 6 fully scanned, average readability score 40 (F). Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 kvcc.me.edu
Kennebec Valley Community College U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
1 smccme.edu
Southern Maine Community College U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
3 emcc.edu
Eastern Maine Community College U.S. rank 242 		0 of 1 checks pass F
3 nmcc.edu
Northern Maine Community College U.S. rank 198 		0 of 1 checks pass F
3 wccc.me.edu
Washington County Community College U.S. rank 216 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 cmcc.edu
Central Maine Community College U.S. rank 67 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We were able to fully scan your site. Status 200 -

Maine private nonprofit institutions by readability score

12 sites, 10 fully scanned, average readability score 40 (F). Ranked among themselves. Not part of the public average above.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 coa.edu
College of the Atlantic U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
1 husson.edu
Husson University U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
1 sjcme.edu
Saint Joseph's College of Maine U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
1 unity.edu
Unity Environmental University U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
2 bates.edu
Bates College U.S. rank 16 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 bowdoin.edu
Bowdoin College U.S. rank 58 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 idsva.edu
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts U.S. rank 178 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 meca.edu
Maine College of Art & Design U.S. rank 110 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 landingschool.edu
The Landing School U.S. rank 54 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 une.edu
University of New England U.S. rank 16 		0 of 1 checks pass F
mchp.edu
Maine College of Health Professions 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 999 -
mainemedia.edu
Maine Media College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 999 -

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 10/28/2026 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.

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