Michigan research universities: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 8 Michigan research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 8
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Michigan research university sites. All education sites

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

A 97

Average botability score of 6 fully scanned Michigan research university sites

1st

of 17 states, ranked by average botability score

6 of 8

Michigan research university sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 2, so they're listed without grades

B 89

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

How Michigan botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 6 fully scanned Michigan research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Michigan 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 790
80 to 890
90 to 1006

Michigan research universities by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Michigan research universities: 6 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Michigan
  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)
Michigan100% (6)0% (0)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Michigan research university sites by botability score

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

Central Michigan University

A 100 botability

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

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

Michigan Technological University

A 100 botability

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

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

Oakland University

A 100 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Michigan research university sites

Share of the 6 fully scanned Michigan 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. Sitemap in robots.txt17%
  2. Link text17%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt17%1
Link text17%1

What each check means

  • Sitemap in robots.txt. The robots.txt file links to the sitemap. Search engines take longer to find your pages.
  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Michigan by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 cmich.edu
Central Michigan University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 mtu.edu
Michigan Technological University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 oakland.edu
Oakland University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 wayne.edu
Wayne State University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 msu.edu
Michigan State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 wmich.edu
Western Michigan University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
emich.edu
Eastern Michigan University 		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 -
umich.edu
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 		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 -

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 11/4/2026. 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 2 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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