Montana college websites: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 16 public and 4 private college and university websites in Montana, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 20
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Montana college and university sites. All education sites

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

B 86

Average botability score of 16 fully scanned Montana public college sites

10th

of 48 states and territories, ranked by average botability score

16 of 16

Montana public college sites fully scanned

B 89

Average botability score of all 2,687 fully scanned education sites

How Montana botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 16 fully scanned Montana public college sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Montana average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 390
40 to 490
50 to 590
60 to 690
70 to 795
80 to 891
90 to 10010

Montana by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Montana: 16 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Montana
  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)
Montana63% (10)38% (6)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Montana public college sites by botability score

#1 in Montana · U.S. education rank 1

Chief Dull Knife College

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Montana · U.S. education rank 1

Montana State University Billings

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Montana · U.S. education rank 1

Salish Kootenai College

A 100 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Montana public college sites

Share of the 16 fully scanned Montana 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. Link text44%
  2. Sitemap in robots.txt38%
  3. Sitemap status25%
  4. Sitemap XML25%
  5. Content available in document13%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Link text44%7
Sitemap in robots.txt38%6
Sitemap status25%4
Sitemap XML25%4
Content available in document13%2

What each check means

  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.
  • Sitemap in robots.txt. The robots.txt file links to the sitemap. Search engines take longer to find your pages.
  • Sitemap status. The sitemap file loads and returns a successful response. Search engines cannot find all your pages.
  • Sitemap XML. The sitemap file uses the required XML format. Search engines cannot read your sitemap.
  • Content available in document. The page's main content loads without requiring JavaScript. Bots cannot read your content.

Every education site with one problem

Montana public 4-year institutions by botability score

9 sites, 9 fully scanned, average botability score 86 (B). Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 msubillings.edu
Montana State University Billings U.S. rank 1 		9 of 9 checks pass A
1 skc.edu
Salish Kootenai College U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 ancollege.edu
Aaniiih Nakoda College U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 mtech.edu
Montana Technological University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 umt.edu
The University of Montana U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 umwestern.edu
The University of Montana-Western U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 montana.edu
Montana State University U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
3 msun.edu
Montana State University-Northern U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
3 stonechild.edu
Stone Child College U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C

Montana public 2-year institutions by botability score

7 sites, 7 fully scanned, average botability score 86 (B). Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 cdkc.edu
Chief Dull Knife College U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 dawson.edu
Dawson Community College U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 fpcc.edu
Fort Peck Community College U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 gfcmsu.edu
Great Falls College Montana State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 fvcc.edu
Flathead Valley Community College U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B
4 helenacollege.edu
Helena College University of Montana U.S. rank 9 		7 of 9 checks pass C
5 milescc.edu
Miles Community College U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C

Montana private nonprofit institutions by botability score

4 sites, 4 fully scanned. Ranked among themselves. Not part of the public average above.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 montanabiblecollege.edu
Montana Bible College U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 uprovidence.edu
University of Providence U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 rocky.edu
Rocky Mountain College U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 carroll.edu
Carroll College U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B

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 10/25/2026 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. 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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