Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 10 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education campus websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 10
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education sites. All education sites

Campuses of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The system office site is listed but not averaged, since it is not a campus homepage.

D 63

Average usability score of 8 fully scanned Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education campus sites

14th

of 57 systems, ranked by average usability score

8 of 10

Pennsylvania state system of higher education campus sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 2, so they're listed without grades

D 68

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

How Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 8 fully scanned Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education campus sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 390
40 to 491
50 to 592
60 to 693
70 to 791
80 to 891
90 to 1000

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education: 8 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
  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)
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education0% (0)25% (2)75% (6)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education campus sites by usability score

#1 in Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education · U.S. education rank 9

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

B 81 usability

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

#2 in Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education · U.S. education rank 14

Millersville University of Pennsylvania

C 73 usability

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

#3 in Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education · U.S. education rank 17

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

D 68 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education campus sites

Share of the 8 fully scanned Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education 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. Open Graph image alt100%
  2. Open Graph URL75%
  3. Open Graph description63%
  4. Open Graph site name63%
  5. First Contentful Paint (FCP)50%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt100%8
Open Graph URL75%6
Open Graph description63%5
Open Graph site name63%5
First Contentful Paint (FCP)50%4

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 URL. The page has a canonical URL for social media sharing. Shared links may point to wrong page.
  • Open Graph description. The page has a description for social media previews. Shared links have no description on social media.
  • Open Graph site name. The site has a name for social media and browser display. Site name missing in social media shares.
  • 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

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education campuses by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 kutztown.edu
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
2 millersville.edu
Millersville University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
3 cheyney.edu
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
4 ship.edu
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
4 sru.edu
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
5 esu.edu
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
5 pennwest.edu
Pennsylvania Western University U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
6 wcupa.edu
West Chester University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 checks pass F
commonwealthu.edu
Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania 		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 -
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 11/1/2026. 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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