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University Political Orientation

The university index / 2026

Course descriptions · 100 universities · 2024-25 catalogs.

We analyzed 10,124 politically framedThe course description itself takes a side on a political question, not just covers one. course descriptions at 100 American universities.

Far leftCenterFar right

1 dot = 5 courses

10,072 lean left. 33 lean right.

That is 305 to 1.

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All 100 schools at a glance · Framing · Average tilt

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Zoomed in on the 75 to 50 stretch of the 100 (far left) to 0 (far right) ruler, where every school lands. 50 is center.

  1. 1Wesleyan University70.9Average tilt
  2. 2Johns Hopkins University69.8Average tilt
  3. 3Vassar College69.5Average tilt
  4. 4Amherst College69.4Average tilt
  5. 5The New School69.4Average tilt
  6. 6Williams College69.3Average tilt
  7. 7University of Minnesota69.2Average tilt
  8. 8University of California-Santa Cruz69.1Average tilt
  9. 9Bowdoin College68.9Average tilt
  10. 10Grinnell College68.7Average tilt
  11. 11University of Rochester68.6Average tilt
  12. 12University of Pennsylvania68.6Average tilt
  13. 13Yale University68.5Average tilt
  14. 14Stanford University68.4Average tilt
  15. 15Davidson College68.4Average tilt
  16. 16College of William and Mary68.4Average tilt
  17. 17Princeton University68.3Average tilt
  18. 18Swarthmore College68.3Average tilt
  19. 19Boston University68.2Average tilt
  20. 20University of Illinois-Chicago68.2Average tilt
  21. 21American University68.0Average tilt
  22. 22University of Texas at Austin67.9Average tilt
  23. 23Brown University67.8Average tilt
  24. 24Washington University in St. Louis67.7Average tilt
  25. 25Middlebury College67.7Average tilt
  26. 26Macalester College67.7Average tilt
  27. 27University of California-Los Angeles67.7Average tilt
  28. 28Haverford College67.7Average tilt
  29. 29Wake Forest University67.6Average tilt
  30. 30Dartmouth College67.4Average tilt
  31. 31Howard University67.4Average tilt
  32. 32University of California, Berkeley67.3Average tilt
  33. 33University of Chicago67.3Average tilt
  34. 34Cornell University67.2Average tilt
  35. 35Harvard University67.2Average tilt
  36. 36University of California-Santa Barbara67.2Average tilt
  37. 37Columbia University67.2Average tilt
  38. 38Case Western Reserve University67.1Average tilt
  39. 39Pennsylvania State University-University Park67.1Average tilt
  40. 40Boston College67.0Average tilt
  41. 41Barnard College67.0Average tilt
  42. 42Northeastern University66.9Average tilt
  43. 43Santa Clara University66.9Average tilt
  44. 44Colgate University66.9Average tilt
  45. 45Hamilton College66.9Average tilt
  46. 46University of Alabama66.8Average tilt
  47. 47Southern Methodist University66.7Average tilt
  48. 48University of California-San Diego66.6Average tilt
  49. 49University of Iowa66.6Average tilt
  50. 50Rice University66.6Average tilt
  51. 51Massachusetts Institute of Technology66.6Average tilt
  52. 52Carnegie Mellon University66.5Average tilt
  53. 53University of California-Riverside66.5Average tilt
  54. 54Florida State University66.5Average tilt
  55. 55Vanderbilt University66.5Average tilt
  56. 56University of Maryland-College Park66.3Average tilt
  57. 57Duke66.1Average tilt
  58. 58University of Virginia66.0Average tilt
  59. 59University of Washington65.9Average tilt
  60. 60Fordham University65.9Average tilt
  61. 61Ohio State University-Columbus65.8Average tilt
  62. 62University of Arizona65.6Average tilt
  63. 63Northwestern University65.6Average tilt
  64. 64North Carolina State University65.6Average tilt
  65. 65University of Wisconsin-Madison65.5Average tilt
  66. 66Tufts University65.5Average tilt
  67. 67University of Connecticut65.5Average tilt
  68. 68University of Colorado-Boulder65.5Average tilt
  69. 69Purdue University65.4Average tilt
  70. 70University of Tennessee-Knoxville65.2Average tilt
  71. 71New York University65.1Average tilt
  72. 72University of Notre Dame65.0Average tilt
  73. 73Texas A&M University65.0Average tilt
  74. 74University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill65.0Average tilt
  75. 75University of California-Irvine64.9Average tilt
  76. 76University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign64.9Average tilt
  77. 77Lehigh University64.9Average tilt
  78. 78Rutgers University-New Brunswick64.8Average tilt
  79. 79University of Georgia64.7Average tilt
  80. 80Claremont McKenna College64.6Average tilt
  81. 81Marquette University64.5Average tilt
  82. 82Indiana University-Bloomington64.4Average tilt
  83. 83Stony Brook University64.4Average tilt
  84. 84George Washington University64.4Average tilt
  85. 85University of Southern California64.4Average tilt
  86. 86Tulane University64.3Average tilt
  87. 87Auburn University64.0Average tilt
  88. 88University of California-Davis64.0Average tilt
  89. 89Washington and Lee University63.9Average tilt
  90. 90University of Florida63.6Average tilt
  91. 91University of Houston63.1Average tilt
  92. 92University of Miami62.9Average tilt
  93. 93Louisiana State University62.8Average tilt
  94. 94Georgia Institute of Technology62.4Average tilt
  95. 95Pepperdine University62.4Average tilt
  96. 96Emory University62.3Average tilt
  97. 97Yeshiva University61.7Average tilt
  98. 98Baylor University61.0Average tilt
  99. 99Brigham Young University60.3Average tilt
  100. 100Texas Tech University60.0Average tilt