New Jersey research universities: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 9 New Jersey research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 9
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

R1 and R2 universities in New Jersey, public and private together.

B 85

Average botability score of 8 fully scanned New Jersey research university sites

10th

of 17 states, ranked by average botability score

8 of 9

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

B 89

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

How New Jersey botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 8 fully scanned New Jersey research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

Distribution of 8 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.

  • New Jersey average
  • All education average
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How New Jersey botability 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 894
90 to 1003

New Jersey research universities by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. New Jersey research universities: 8 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. New JerseyA (90 to 100): 38% (3 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 63% (5 sites)
  2. All education sitesA (90 to 100): 71% (1,899 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 25% (660 sites)D to F (below 70): 5% (128 sites)
  • A (90 to 100)
  • B to C (70 to 89)
  • D to F (below 70)
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New Jersey research universities by botability grade, compared with all education sites
GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
New Jersey38% (3)63% (5)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 New Jersey research university sites by botability score

#1 in New Jersey · U.S. education rank 1

Stevens Institute of Technology

A 100 botability

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

#2 in New Jersey · U.S. education rank 2

Montclair State University

A 90 botability

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

#2 in New Jersey · U.S. education rank 2

Seton Hall University

A 90 botability

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

Most common botability failures among New Jersey research university sites

Share of the 8 fully scanned New Jersey 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.txt75% (6 of 8 sites)
  2. Link text63% (5 of 8 sites)
  3. Content available in document25% (2 of 8 sites)
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Most common botability failures among New Jersey research university sites
CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt75%6
Link text63%5
Content available in document25%2

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.
  • Content available in document. The page's main content loads without requiring JavaScript. Bots cannot read your content.

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Research universities in New Jersey by botability score

Research universities in New Jersey ranked by botability score
Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 stevens.edu
Stevens Institute of Technology U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
2 montclair.edu
Montclair State University U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 shu.edu
Seton Hall University U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
3 njit.edu
New Jersey Institute of Technology U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
3 princeton.edu
Princeton University U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
3 camden.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University-Camden U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
3 newark.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University-Newark U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
4 rowan.edu
Rowan University U.S. rank 11
8 of 11 checks pass C
newbrunswick.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
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 10/28/2026 and 11/7/2026. 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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