Georgia research universities: website rankings

Rankings, grades, and the most common failures for 9 Georgia research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 9
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

R1 and R2 universities in Georgia, public and private together.

B 88

Average overall score of 9 fully scanned Georgia research university sites

2nd

of 17 states, ranked by average overall score

9 of 9

Georgia research university sites fully scanned

B 85

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

How Georgia overall scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 9 fully scanned Georgia research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

Distribution of 9 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.

  • Georgia average
  • All education average
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How Georgia overall scores are distributed
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 791
80 to 895
90 to 1003

Georgia research universities by overall grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Georgia research universities: 9 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. GeorgiaA (90 to 100): 33% (3 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 67% (6 sites)
  2. All education sitesA (90 to 100): 25% (659 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 73% (1,965 sites)D to F (below 70): 2% (63 sites)
  • A (90 to 100)
  • B to C (70 to 89)
  • D to F (below 70)
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Georgia research universities by overall grade, compared with all education sites
GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
Georgia33% (3)67% (6)0% (0)
All education sites25% (659)73% (1,965)2% (63)

Georgia average score by indicator, compared with all education sites

Average of the 9 fully scanned Georgia research university sites, score 0 to 100. The comparison covers 2687 fully scanned education sites.

  1. Accessibility96All education: 91
  2. Botability91All education: 89
  3. Security82All education: 85
  4. Usability70All education: 68
  5. Readability75All education: 56
  • Georgia
  • All education
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Georgia average score by indicator, compared with all education sites
IndicatorGeorgia averageAll education average
Accessibility9691
Botability9189
Security8285
Usability7068
Readability7556

Top 3 Georgia research university sites by overall score

#1 in Georgia · U.S. education rank 5

Mercer University

A 96 overall

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

#2 in Georgia · U.S. education rank 8

Emory University

A 93 overall

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

#2 in Georgia · U.S. education rank 8

Georgia Southern University

A 93 overall

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

Most common failures by indicator

The check Georgia research university sites fail most often in each indicator. Each indicator page lists the top five.

Research universities in Georgia by overall score

Research universities in Georgia ranked by overall score
Rank Site Indicator grades Grade
1 mercer.edu
Mercer University U.S. rank 5
  • Accessibility grade A
  • Botability grade A
  • Security grade C
  • Usability grade A
  • Readability grade A
A
2 emory.edu
Emory University U.S. rank 8
  • Accessibility grade A
  • Botability grade A
  • Security grade A
  • Usability grade B
  • Readability grade A
A
2 georgiasouthern.edu
Georgia Southern University U.S. rank 8
  • Accessibility grade A
  • Botability grade A
  • Security grade B
  • Usability grade C
  • Readability grade A
A
3 augusta.edu
Augusta University U.S. rank 12
  • Accessibility grade A
  • Botability grade A
  • Security grade C
  • Usability grade C
  • Readability grade F
B
4 gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus U.S. rank 13
  • Accessibility grade B
  • Botability grade A
  • Security grade C
  • Usability grade A
  • Readability grade A
B
4 gsu.edu
Georgia State University U.S. rank 13
  • Accessibility grade A
  • Botability grade B
  • Security grade C
  • Usability grade C
  • Readability grade A
B
5 kennesaw.edu
Kennesaw State University U.S. rank 17
  • Accessibility grade A
  • Botability grade A
  • Security grade B
  • Usability grade F
  • Readability grade A
B
6 cau.edu
Clark Atlanta University U.S. rank 20
  • Accessibility grade A
  • Botability grade A
  • Security grade C
  • Usability grade F
  • Readability grade F
B
7 uga.edu
University of Georgia U.S. rank 25
  • Accessibility grade A
  • Botability grade B
  • Security grade B
  • Usability grade F
  • Readability grade -
C

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. 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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