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Northeastern University's course descriptions average 66.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Northeastern University reads 0.6 points further right.

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Northeastern University: 66.9 (likely range 65.2 to 68.7) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

2%Far left92–100

32%Left75–91

46%Center-left59–74

14%Center42–58

2%Center-right26–41

1%Right9–25

3%Far right0–8

138 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

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

Furthest-left subjects

AFCS 3210 · Black Abolition Studies: Carcerality, Liberation, and Resistance100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Analyzes how Black people have resisted carcerality in social and political organizing from the 16th century to the present. Explores historical understandings of abolition as the end of slavery and the current abolition project of ending…

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AFCS 5001 · Special Topics in Race and the Law100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Explores the various questions, relationships, and connections between the law and racial issues and concepts. Each offering focuses on a special topic such as reparations, civil rights, gender, or the environment and energy policies. May…

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SOCL 7100 · Queer Theory: Sexualities, Genders, Politics92

Sociology

Introduces the core texts and key debates that have shaped queer theory and examines the intersections between queer theory and feminism and critical race theory. Seeks to provide an understanding of expansive and radical contemporary queer…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 2280 · Hitler, Germany, and the Holocaust0

History

Studies historical developments from Germany's defeat in World War I to the end of World War II. Topics include the failure of Weimar democracy; Weimar culture; the rise to power of Hitler and National Socialism; Nazi culture and racial…

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HIST 2282 · The Holocaust and Comparative Genocide0

History

Examines the origins of the Holocaust, perpetrators and victims, and changing efforts to come to terms with this genocide. The Holocaust, the murder of six million Jews by Germans in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, is one of the…

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JWSS 2282 · The Holocaust and Comparative Genocide0

Religious Studies

Examines the origins of the Holocaust, perpetrators and victims, and changing efforts to come to terms with this genocide. The Holocaust, the murder of 6 million Jews by Germans in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, is one of the…

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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 65.2 to 68.7; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

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.

Northeastern University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Ethnic & African American Studies	28.9%	45	view
Sociology	28.8%	59	view
Women's & Gender Studies	26.7%	15	view
Anthropology	13.3%	30	view
Religious Studies	7.7%	78	view
History	7.1%	85	view
Economics	2.7%	110	view
English & Comparative Literature	1.7%	119	view
Art & Art History	1.4%	143	view
Philosophy	0%	7	view
Political Science	0%	72	view
Psychology	0%	98	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
Northeastern University	mean_bias_score	66.9	65.2 – 68.7	861	57
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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