Welcome to worstuniversitywebsites.com!

Why this website?

I made this website to hopefully give universities an incentive to change their website's design and structure. I am currently applying to universities in the US and I get frustrated and overwhelmed by some university websites because they don't have clear information about their fees structure, their events, or their courses. What makes it worse is that these universities ask you to write large essays about them, and because of this difficulty of finding info about a university from THEIR OWN website, students resort to using tools like chatgpt or going through pages upon pages of google results just to find a bit of info.

The idea is that universities be encouraged to change their website (the bad parts of their website) in an attempt to stay off this website. Maybe the chances of them doing this are less, at least in the early stages, but if this website becomes as big as other websites that rank universities based off of other real factors then maybe the universities will make an effort. In the long run, this will make it much easier for future students applying to universities to find more information easier. For now, I want to allow the community (students that are applying to university) to shape the list.

Terms and Conditions

  • This website is not affiliated with any university or institution and is an independent project made by a single student.
  • This website allows the community to freely rank universities based on their website structure and design.
  • The rankings are based on user-submitted ratings and reflect the average scores provided by the community.
  • The rankings are not intended to harm any university’s reputation and should be taken in a lighthearted manner.
  • Only universities that have been rated will be shown on the main ranking list.

Privacy Policy

  • When you sign up, you provide your email address and are required to verify your email as an extra step to ensure all ratings are valid.
  • Your email is not disclosed to the public including universities and is protected by API rules in the database. This makes rating universities safe.
  • Only your ratings and comments are shown to the public on the page of each university on this website. Your identity is kept anonymous.
  • Analytics may be collected and the collected data includes:
    • How long you stay on each page on this site
    • The pages you visit on this site
    • Your IP based location (not precise)
    • Your device type and operating system
    • Information about your browser