Maryland research universities: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 5 Maryland research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 5
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Maryland research university sites. All education sites

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

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No average: fewer than 5 Maryland research university sites were fully scanned (4)

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Not ranked among states

4 of 5

Maryland research university sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 1, so they're listed without grades

D 68

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

How Maryland usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 4 fully scanned Maryland research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Maryland 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 691
70 to 790
80 to 892
90 to 1001

Maryland research universities by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Maryland research universities: 4 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Maryland
  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)
Maryland25% (1)50% (2)25% (1)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Maryland research university sites by usability score

#1 in Maryland · U.S. education rank 1

University of Maryland-Baltimore County

A 100 usability

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

#2 in Maryland · U.S. education rank 5

Johns Hopkins University

B 86 usability

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

#3 in Maryland · U.S. education rank 9

University of Maryland-College Park

B 81 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Maryland research university sites

Share of the 4 fully scanned Maryland research university 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. First Contentful Paint (FCP)50%
  2. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)50%
  3. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)50%
  4. Open Graph image25%
  5. Open Graph image alt25%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
First Contentful Paint (FCP)50%2
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)50%2
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)50%2
Open Graph image25%1
Open Graph image alt25%1

What each check means

  • First Contentful Paint (FCP). The page starts displaying content within 1.8 seconds. Users see blank screen and think site is broken.
  • Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). The page's main content loads within 2.5 seconds. Users wait too long and leave your page.
  • Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). Page content stays in place as the page loads. Users click wrong buttons by mistake.
  • Open Graph image. The page has a preview image for social media cards. Shared links have no image on social media.
  • Open Graph image alt. The social media preview image has alt text for screen readers. Screen readers cannot describe shared images.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Maryland by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 umbc.edu
University of Maryland-Baltimore County U.S. rank 1 		16 of 16 checks pass A
2 jhu.edu
Johns Hopkins University U.S. rank 5 		13 of 15 checks pass B
3 umd.edu
University of Maryland-College Park U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
4 morgan.edu
Morgan State University U.S. rank 21 		9 of 15 checks pass D
umes.edu
University of Maryland Eastern Shore 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 403 -

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 10/27/2026 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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