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University of Maryland-College Park

University of Maryland-College Park's course descriptions average 66.3 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Maryland-College Park reads 1.2 points further right.

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

University of Maryland-College Park: 66.3 (likely range 64.4 to 68.3) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

15%Left75–91

85%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

34 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

AASP187 · The New Jim Crow: African-Americans, Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex82

Ethnic & African American Studies

Recommended: AASP100. Students will examine the birth of the racial caste system following the abolition of slavery, the parallels between the racial hierarchy of the Jim Crow system and contemporary mass incarceration, and the rise of the…

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WGSS200 · Introduction to WGSS: Gender, Power, and Society78

Women's & Gender Studies

Examines constructions of race, class, sexuality, ability, and gender relations from a social science multi-disciplinary perspective. The course interrogates the ways that systems of hierarchy and privilege are created, enforced, and…

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AASP230 · Social (In)Justice and African-American Health and Well-Being75

Ethnic & African American Studies

African Americans suffer worse outcomes than non-Hispanic whites on nearly every health measure and outcomes that link to overall well-being like depressive symptoms or homicides. Health disparities are experienced by other underrepresented…

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Furthest right

None. University of Maryland-College Park has 34 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 64.4 to 68.3; 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 Maryland-College Park by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	50%	12	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	33.3%	24	view
Anthropology	17.2%	29	view
Sociology	17.1%	35	view
English & Comparative Literature	7.5%	67	view
Psychology	4.3%	46	view
Art & Art History	3.1%	32	view
History	2.8%	36	view
Economics	0%	57	view
Philosophy	0%	13	view
Political Science	0%	30	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 Maryland-College Park	mean_bias_score	66.3	64.4 – 68.3	381	34
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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