Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 9 Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning campus websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 9
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning sites. All education sites

Campuses of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning. The system office site is listed but not averaged, since it is not a campus homepage.

B 87

Average botability score of 7 fully scanned Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning campus sites

11th

of 57 systems, ranked by average botability score

7 of 8

Mississippi institutions of higher learning campus 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 Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 7 fully scanned Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning campus sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning 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 591
60 to 690
70 to 790
80 to 891
90 to 1005

Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning: 7 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning
  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)
Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning71% (5)14% (1)14% (1)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning campus sites by botability score

#1 in Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning · U.S. education rank 1

Mississippi University for Women

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning · U.S. education rank 1

University of Southern Mississippi

A 100 botability

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

#2 in Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning · U.S. education rank 2

Alcorn State University

A 90 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning campus sites

Share of the 7 fully scanned Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning campus 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.txt43%
  2. Link text29%
  3. Canonical14%
  4. Robots valid14%
  5. Sitemap status14%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt43%3
Link text29%2
Canonical14%1
Robots valid14%1
Sitemap status14%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.
  • Canonical. Each page declares a preferred URL so search engines show the right link. Search rankings split across duplicate pages.
  • Robots valid. The site's robots.txt file is written correctly so search engines can follow it. Search engines ignore crawling rules they cannot read.
  • Sitemap status. The sitemap file loads and returns a successful response. Search engines cannot find all your pages.

Every education site with one problem

Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning campuses by botability score

8 sites, 7 fully scanned, average botability score 87 (B). Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 muw.edu
Mississippi University for Women U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 usm.edu
University of Southern Mississippi U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 alcorn.edu
Alcorn State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 msstate.edu
Mississippi State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 olemiss.edu
University of Mississippi U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 jsums.edu
Jackson State University U.S. rank 3 		8 of 9 checks pass B
4 mvsu.edu
Mississippi Valley State University U.S. rank 19 		6 of 11 checks pass F
deltastate.edu
Delta State 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 -

System office by botability score

1 sites, 1 fully scanned. Not part of the average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 mississippi.edu
Board of Trustees-Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A

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 11/7/2026. 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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