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North Carolina State University's course descriptions average 65.6 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so North Carolina State University reads 2.0 points further right.

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North Carolina State University: 65.6 (likely range 61.9 to 69.3) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

5%Far left92–100

9%Left75–91

77%Center-left59–74

9%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

22 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

WGS 215 · Abolitionist Futures100

Women's & Gender Studies

An interdisciplinary review of domination, oppression, and exploitation in the U.S., this course will introduce feminist theories, abolitionist histories and strategies, and critiques of colonization and capitalism. Abolitionist Futures…

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AFS 470 · The Red Record and The Birth of a Nation75

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course addresses the power of mass media and the tactics used by early black journalists to confront and subvert racist propaganda. Featured in this course are Ida B. Wells and her efforts in the late 19th and early 20th century to…

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WGS 390 · Queer Theory75

Women's & Gender Studies

Queer Theory provides an overview of the writings, art, identity/ies, work, politics, debates, histories, bodies, intimacies, kinship, and other lived realities of the people and experiences often organized under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. As a…

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Furthest right

None. North Carolina State University has 22 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 61.9 to 69.3; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Only 22 of North Carolina State University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

North Carolina State University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	46.2%	13	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	22.2%	9	view
Sociology	12.7%	71	view
History	4%	100	view
English & Comparative Literature	0.6%	171	view
Anthropology	0%	25	view
Art & Art History	0%	68	view
Economics	0%	93	view
Philosophy	0%	40	view
Political Science	0%	67	view
Psychology	0%	85	view
Religious Studies	0%	29	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
North Carolina State University	mean_bias_score	65.6	61.9 – 69.3	771	22
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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