Showing New Hampshire college and university sites. All education sites
Public colleges and universities in New Hampshire are ranked and averaged together; private nonprofit institutions are listed below with their own average.
D 69
Average readability score of 13 fully scanned New Hampshire public college sites
9th
of 48 states and territories, ranked by average readability score
13 of 14
New hampshire 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 New Hampshire readability scores are distributed
Smoothed distribution of the 13 fully scanned New Hampshire public college sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.
Distribution of 13 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.
- New Hampshire 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 | 9 |
New Hampshire by readability grade, compared with all education sites
Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. New Hampshire: 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 69% (9) | 0% (0) | 31% (4) |
| All education sites | 53% (1,425) | 0% (0) | 41% (1,110) |
Top 3 New Hampshire public college sites by readability score
#1 in New Hampshire · U.S. education rank 1
Great Bay Community College
A 100 readability
- Accessibility B
- Botability A
- Security C
- Usability B
- Readability A
#1 in New Hampshire · U.S. education rank 1
Lakes Region Community College
A 100 readability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability A
- Readability A
#1 in New Hampshire · U.S. education rank 1
Manchester Community College
A 100 readability
- Accessibility B
- Botability A
- Security C
- Usability B
- 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.
New Hampshire public 4-year institutions by readability score
7 sites, 6 fully scanned, average readability score 50 (F). Part of the headline average.
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
manchester.unh.edu
University of New Hampshire at Manchester U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
law.unh.edu
University of New Hampshire-Franklin Pierce School of Law U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
unh.edu
University of New Hampshire-Main Campus U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
cps.unh.edu
U.S. rank 68 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
plymouth.edu
Plymouth State University U.S. rank 166 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
usnh.edu
University System of New Hampshire System Office U.S. rank 74 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
|
keene.edu
Keene State College |
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 | - |
New Hampshire public 2-year institutions by readability score
7 sites, 7 fully scanned, average readability score 86 (B). Part of the headline average.
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
greatbay.edu
Great Bay Community College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
lrcc.edu
Lakes Region Community College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
mccnh.edu
Manchester Community College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
nashuacc.edu
Nashua Community College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
rivervalley.edu
River Valley Community College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
wmcc.edu
White Mountains Community College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
nhti.edu
NHTI-Concord's Community College U.S. rank 190 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
New Hampshire private nonprofit institutions by readability score
9 sites, 8 fully scanned, average readability score 25 (F). Ranked among themselves. Not part of the public average above.
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
home.dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
nec.edu
New England College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
colby-sawyer.edu
Colby-Sawyer College U.S. rank 80 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
franklinpierce.edu
Franklin Pierce University U.S. rank 134 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
rivier.edu
Rivier University U.S. rank 42 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
anselm.edu
Saint Anselm College U.S. rank 198 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
snhu.edu
Southern New Hampshire University U.S. rank 24 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
sjson.edu
St Joseph School of Nursing U.S. rank 110 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
|
thomasmorecollege.edu
Thomas More College of Liberal Arts |
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We didn't scan your site because its robots.txt asks crawlers to wait longer than we can. Status 997 | - |
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 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. 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.