Rhode Island college websites: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 3 public and 11 private college and university websites in Rhode Island, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 14
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Rhode Island college and university sites. All education sites

Public colleges and universities in Rhode Island are ranked and averaged together; private nonprofit institutions are listed below with their own average.

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No average: fewer than 5 Rhode Island public college sites were fully scanned (3)

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Not ranked among states and territories

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Rhode island public college sites fully scanned

D 68

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

How Rhode Island usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 3 fully scanned Rhode Island public college sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Rhode Island average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 391
40 to 490
50 to 590
60 to 691
70 to 790
80 to 890
90 to 1001

Rhode Island by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Rhode Island: 3 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Rhode Island
  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)
Rhode Island33% (1)0% (0)67% (2)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Rhode Island public college sites by usability score

#1 in Rhode Island · U.S. education rank 2

Community College of Rhode Island

A 93 usability

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

#2 in Rhode Island · U.S. education rank 17

University of Rhode Island

D 68 usability

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

#3 in Rhode Island · U.S. education rank 33

Rhode Island College

F 33 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Rhode Island public college sites

Share of the 3 fully scanned Rhode Island public college 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. Open Graph image alt100%
  2. Open Graph site name67%
  3. Open Graph type67%
  4. Interaction to Next Paint (INP)33%
  5. First Contentful Paint (FCP)33%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt100%3
Open Graph site name67%2
Open Graph type67%2
Interaction to Next Paint (INP)33%1
First Contentful Paint (FCP)33%1

What each check means

  • Open Graph image alt. The social media preview image has alt text for screen readers. Screen readers cannot describe shared images.
  • Open Graph site name. The site has a name for social media and browser display. Site name missing in social media shares.
  • Open Graph type. The page declares its content type for social media cards. Social media shows wrong content type.
  • Interaction to Next Paint (INP). The page responds to user interactions in under 0.2 seconds. Site feels frozen when users click things.
  • First Contentful Paint (FCP). The page starts displaying content within 1.8 seconds. Users see blank screen and think site is broken.

Every education site with one problem

Rhode Island public 4-year institutions by usability score

2 sites, 2 fully scanned. Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 web.uri.edu
University of Rhode Island U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
2 ric.edu
Rhode Island College U.S. rank 33 		5 of 15 checks pass F

Rhode Island public 2-year institutions by usability score

1 sites, 1 fully scanned. Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 ccri.edu
Community College of Rhode Island U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A

Rhode Island private nonprofit institutions by usability score

11 sites, 11 fully scanned, average usability score 65 (D). Ranked among themselves. Not part of the public average above.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 collegeunbound.edu
College Unbound U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
1 neit.edu
New England Institute of Technology U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
1 providence.edu
Providence College U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
2 bryant.edu
Bryant University U.S. rank 13 		12 of 16 checks pass C
3 online.jwu.edu
Johnson & Wales University-Online U.S. rank 15 		10 of 14 checks pass C
4 brown.edu
Brown University U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
5 salve.edu
Salve Regina University U.S. rank 20 		10 of 16 checks pass D
6 risd.edu
Rhode Island School of Design U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
7 rwu.edu
Roger Williams University U.S. rank 27 		7 of 16 checks pass F
8 law.rwu.edu
Roger Williams University School of Law U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 checks pass F
9 jwu.edu
Johnson & Wales University U.S. rank 31 		6 of 16 checks pass F

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. 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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