Washington college websites: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 42 public and 19 private college and university websites in Washington, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 61
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Washington college and university sites. All education sites

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

F 56

Average usability score of 36 fully scanned Washington public college sites

18th

of 48 states and territories, ranked by average usability score

36 of 42

Washington public college sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 6, so they're listed without grades

D 68

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

How Washington usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 36 fully scanned Washington public college sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Washington average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 291
30 to 395
40 to 495
50 to 5910
60 to 695
70 to 797
80 to 893
90 to 1000

Washington by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Washington: 36 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Washington
  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)
Washington0% (0)28% (10)72% (26)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Washington public college sites by usability score

#1 in Washington · U.S. education rank 5

Olympic College

B 86 usability

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

#2 in Washington · U.S. education rank 9

Northwest Indian College

B 81 usability

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

#3 in Washington · U.S. education rank 10

Walla Walla Community College

B 80 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Washington public college sites

Share of the 36 fully scanned Washington 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 alt94%
  2. Open Graph image72%
  3. Open Graph type69%
  4. Open Graph site name67%
  5. Open Graph URL67%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt94%34
Open Graph image72%26
Open Graph type69%25
Open Graph site name67%24
Open Graph URL67%24

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 image. The page has a preview image for social media cards. Shared links have no image on social media.
  • Open Graph type. The page declares its content type for social media cards. Social media shows wrong content type.
  • Open Graph site name. The site has a name for social media and browser display. Site name missing in social media shares.
  • Open Graph URL. The page has a canonical URL for social media sharing. Shared links may point to wrong page.

Every education site with one problem

Washington public 4-year institutions by usability score

42 sites, 36 fully scanned, average usability score 56 (F). Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 olympic.edu
Olympic College U.S. rank 5 		13 of 15 checks pass B
2 nwic.edu
Northwest Indian College U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
3 wwcc.edu
Walla Walla Community College U.S. rank 10 		12 of 15 checks pass B
4 bigbend.edu
Big Bend Community College U.S. rank 13 		12 of 16 checks pass C
4 wvc.edu
Wenatchee Valley College U.S. rank 13 		12 of 16 checks pass C
5 cptc.edu
Clover Park Technical College U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
5 edmonds.edu
Edmonds College U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
5 shoreline.edu
Shoreline Community College U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
5 tacoma.uw.edu
University of Washington-Tacoma Campus U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
5 wwu.edu
Western Washington University U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
6 wsu.edu
Washington State University U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
7 ewu.edu
Eastern Washington University U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
7 uwb.edu
University of Washington-Bothell Campus U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
7 washington.edu
University of Washington-Seattle Campus U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
8 lowercolumbia.edu
Lower Columbia College U.S. rank 20 		10 of 16 checks pass D
9 pierce.ctc.edu
Pierce College District U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
9 rtc.edu
Renton Technical College U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
9 seattlecentral.edu
Seattle Central College U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
9 southseattle.edu
South Seattle College U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
10 greenriver.edu
Green River College U.S. rank 25 		8 of 16 checks pass F
10 highline.edu
Highline College U.S. rank 25 		8 of 16 checks pass F
10 northseattle.edu
North Seattle College U.S. rank 25 		8 of 16 checks pass F
10 spscc.edu
South Puget Sound Community College U.S. rank 25 		8 of 16 checks pass F
10 scc.spokane.edu
Spokane Community College U.S. rank 25 		8 of 16 checks pass F
10 sfcc.spokane.edu
Spokane Falls Community College U.S. rank 25 		8 of 16 checks pass F
11 clark.edu
Clark College U.S. rank 27 		7 of 16 checks pass F
11 skagit.edu
Skagit Valley College U.S. rank 27 		7 of 16 checks pass F
12 cascadia.edu
Cascadia College U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 checks pass F
12 cwu.edu
Central Washington University U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 checks pass F
12 centralia.edu
Centralia College U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 checks pass F
13 everettcc.edu
Everett Community College U.S. rank 31 		6 of 16 checks pass F
14 btc.edu
Bellingham Technical College U.S. rank 33 		5 of 15 checks pass F
14 ghc.edu
Grays Harbor College U.S. rank 33 		5 of 15 checks pass F
14 lwtech.edu
Lake Washington Institute of Technology U.S. rank 33 		5 of 15 checks pass F
14 tacomacc.edu
Tacoma Community College U.S. rank 33 		5 of 15 checks pass F
15 columbiabasin.edu
Columbia Basin College U.S. rank 36 		4 of 15 checks pass F
batestech.edu
Bates Technical College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 999 -
bellevuecollege.edu
Bellevue College 		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 -
pencol.edu
Peninsula College 		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 -
evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College 		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 -
whatcom.edu
Whatcom Community College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 403 -
yvcc.edu
Yakima Valley College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We didn't scan your site because its robots.txt asked us not to. Status 998 -

Washington private nonprofit institutions by usability score

19 sites, 19 fully scanned, average usability score 73 (C). Ranked among themselves. Not part of the public average above.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 seattleu.edu
Seattle University U.S. rank 1 		16 of 16 checks pass A
2 plu.edu
Pacific Lutheran University U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
2 theseattleschool.edu
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology U.S. rank 2 		14 of 15 checks pass A
3 cornish.edu
Cornish College of the Arts U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
3 gonzaga.edu
Gonzaga University U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
3 whitman.edu
Whitman College U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
4 northwestu.edu
Northwest University U.S. rank 5 		13 of 15 checks pass B
5 cityu.edu
City University of Seattle U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
5 pnwu.edu
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
5 sieam.edu
Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
5 whitworth.edu
Whitworth University U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
6 heritage.edu
Heritage University U.S. rank 13 		12 of 16 checks pass C
7 pnwcc.edu
Pacific Northwest Christian College U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
8 nwswb.edu
Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building U.S. rank 20 		10 of 16 checks pass D
9 wallawalla.edu
Walla Walla University U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
10 stmartin.edu
Saint Martin's University U.S. rank 26 		7 of 15 checks pass F
11 bastyr.edu
Bastyr University U.S. rank 27 		7 of 16 checks pass F
11 perrytech.edu
Perry Technical Institute U.S. rank 27 		7 of 16 checks pass F
12 pugetsound.edu
University of Puget Sound U.S. rank 34 		5 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 10/25/2026 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 6 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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