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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's course descriptions average 64.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign reads 2.6 points further right.

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

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 64.9 (likely range 63.4 to 66.5) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

10%Left75–91

90%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

52 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

AIS 461 · Politics of Popular Culture83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Concerned with interdisciplinary frameworks that allow us to 'read' popular culture as well as with its actual forms and specific artifacts, this course seeks, first, to grasp how popular culture has legitimized the colonization of American…

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LLS 468 · Latinas/os & the Law83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Examines the Latina/Latino experience in the U.S. how and when the law, through the courts, has most often operated as an instrument of subordination and oppression, but has also at times been leveraged for positive social transformation.…

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AFRO 103 · Black Women in the Diaspora75

Ethnic & African American Studies

Explores the historical, social, economic, cultural and political realities of black women in the African diaspora with an emphasis on the U.S., Canada, Britain, Africa and the English speaking Caribbean. How macro structures such as…

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Furthest right

None. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has 52 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 63.4 to 66.5; 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.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	37.5%	24	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	14.5%	131	view
Sociology	9.8%	61	view
Anthropology	4.7%	128	view
History	4.3%	162	view
English & Comparative Literature	1.6%	191	view
Psychology	0.8%	120	view
Political Science	0.8%	132	view
Art & Art History	0%	171	view
Economics	0%	85	view
Philosophy	0%	60	view
Religious Studies	0%	52	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
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	mean_bias_score	64.9	63.4 – 66.5	1,317	52
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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