All schools · Public

Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University's course descriptions average 60 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Texas Tech University reads 7.5 points further right.

ShowCompared withDepartments

Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

Texas Tech University: 60 All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

5%Far left92–100

26%Left75–91

29%Center-left59–74

16%Center42–58

3%Center-right26–41

9%Right9–25

12%Far right0–8

58 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.

See it for yourself

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

HIST 4361 · The USSR and the Cold War100

History

Semester Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the successes, failures, and legacies of Soviet leaders who attempted to build the world’s first Communist society after World War II. (European history) (CL)

See it for yourself →

HIST 4379 · Revolutionary Russia95

History

Semester Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines Russia/USSR during its revolutionary period, ca. 1900-1950. Topics studied include the 1917 revolutions, civil war, NEP, Stalinism, terror, the Gulag and WWII. (European history) (CL)

See it for yourself →

HIST 4391 · Modern South Africa92

History

Semester Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Description and analysis of the social, economic, and political development of South African society, focusing on the struggle against apartheid. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)

See it for yourself →

Furthest-right subjects

HIST 3359 · The Nazi Era, 1919-19450

History

Semester Credit Hours Surveys post-World War I Germany, the rise of national socialism, Hitler in power, the Nazi State, and Germany in World War II. (European history)

See it for yourself →

HIST 3362 · Forging a Nation: Germany, 1871-Present0

History

Semester Credit Hours An examination of the nation of Germany since its founding. Topics covered include imperial Germany, the Nazi period, Cold War division and reunification. (European history)

See it for yourself →

HIST 4303 · Slavery in America0

History

Semester Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Introduces students to the history of slavery in the United States from colonial times through the end of Reconstruction. (U.S. history) (CL)

See it for yourself →

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). No interval is published for this number.

Only 1 of Texas Tech 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.

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

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Psychology	1.1%	90	view
Anthropology	0%	59	view
Art & Art History	0%	123	view
Economics	0%	66	view
English & Comparative Literature	0%	159	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	0%	4	view
History	0%	241	view
Philosophy	0%	60	view
Political Science	0%	66	view
Sociology	0%	62	view
Women's & Gender Studies	0%	28	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
Texas Tech University	mean_bias_score	60	—	958	1
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.

Ask a question about Texas Tech University · Make a school card