Vermont college websites: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 4 public and 8 private college and university websites in Vermont, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 12
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Vermont college and university sites. All education sites

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

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

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Not ranked among states and territories

3 of 4

Vermont public college sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 1, so they're listed without grades

D 68

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

How Vermont usability scores are distributed

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

  • Vermont 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 590
60 to 691
70 to 790
80 to 891
90 to 1001

Vermont by usability grade, compared with all education sites

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

  1. Vermont
  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)
Vermont33% (1)33% (1)33% (1)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Vermont public college sites by usability score

#1 in Vermont · U.S. education rank 2

Vermont State University

A 93 usability

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

#2 in Vermont · U.S. education rank 4

Community College of Vermont

B 87 usability

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

#3 in Vermont · U.S. education rank 21

University of Vermont

D 60 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Vermont public college sites

Share of the 3 fully scanned Vermont 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. First Contentful Paint (FCP)33%
  3. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)33%
  4. Open Graph image33%
  5. Open Graph site name33%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt100%3
First Contentful Paint (FCP)33%1
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)33%1
Open Graph image33%1
Open Graph site name33%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.
  • First Contentful Paint (FCP). The page starts displaying content within 1.8 seconds. Users see blank screen and think site is broken.
  • Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). The page's main content loads within 2.5 seconds. Users wait too long and leave your page.
  • Open Graph image. The page has a preview image for social media cards. Shared links have no image 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.

Every education site with one problem

Vermont public 4-year institutions by usability score

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

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 vermontstate.edu
Vermont State University U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
2 uvm.edu
University of Vermont U.S. rank 21 		9 of 15 checks pass D
vsc.edu
Vermont State Colleges-Office of the Chancellor 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't fully scan your site because it responded without any page content. Status 995 -

Vermont public 2-year institutions by usability score

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

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 ccv.edu
Community College of Vermont U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B

Vermont private nonprofit institutions by usability score

8 sites, 8 fully scanned, average usability score 83 (B). Ranked among themselves. Not part of the public average above.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 champlain.edu
Champlain College U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
1 landmark.edu
Landmark College U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
1 sterlingcollege.edu
Sterling College U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
2 norwich.edu
Norwich University U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
3 smcvt.edu
Saint Michael's College U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
3 sit.edu
SIT Graduate Institute U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
4 vermontlaw.edu
Vermont Law and Graduate School U.S. rank 10 		12 of 15 checks pass B
5 bennington.edu
Bennington College U.S. rank 23 		9 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 10/28/2026 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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