Pennsylvania research universities: readability rankings

Readability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 11 Pennsylvania research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 11
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Pennsylvania research university sites. All education sites

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

F 20

Average readability score of 10 fully scanned Pennsylvania research university sites

14th

of 17 states, ranked by average readability score

10 of 11

Pennsylvania research university 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 Pennsylvania readability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 10 fully scanned Pennsylvania research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Pennsylvania average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 98
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 1002

Pennsylvania research universities by readability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Pennsylvania research universities: 10 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Pennsylvania
  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)
Pennsylvania20% (2)0% (0)80% (8)
All education sites53% (1,425)0% (0)41% (1,110)

Top 3 Pennsylvania research university sites by readability score

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

Temple University

A 100 readability

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

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

University of Pennsylvania

A 100 readability

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

#2 in Pennsylvania · U.S. education rank 176

Carnegie Mellon University

F 0 readability

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

Most common readability failures among Pennsylvania research university sites

Share of the 10 fully scanned Pennsylvania 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. Reading level80%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Reading level80%8

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

Research universities in Pennsylvania by readability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 temple.edu
Temple University U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
1 upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 1 		1 of 1 checks pass A
2 cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University U.S. rank 176 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 drexel.edu
Drexel University U.S. rank 136 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 duq.edu
Duquesne University U.S. rank 72 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 www2.lehigh.edu
Lehigh University U.S. rank 76 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 psu.edu
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 74 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 jefferson.edu
Thomas Jefferson University U.S. rank 104 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus U.S. rank 112 		0 of 1 checks pass F
2 wcupa.edu
West Chester University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 156 		0 of 1 checks pass F
iup.edu
Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus 		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 10/25/2026 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.

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