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100 schools, 124,290 course descriptions from their 2024-25 catalogs, 12 departments. Pick a school to see where its course descriptions lean, how it compares, and share the view.

100 of 100 schools. Lean: average of scored descriptions, 100 = far left, 0 = far right, 50 = center. Rank 1 = furthest left of 100.

School	Type	Lean	Rank	Left-framed share	Scored / courses
American University	Other private	68.0	21	8.3%	74 / 868
Amherst College	Liberal arts college	69.4	4	25.0%	168 / 669
Auburn University	Public	64.0 *	87	0.6%	4 / 686
Barnard College	Liberal arts college	67.0	41	17.4%	175 / 1,008
Baylor University	Religious-affiliated	61.0 *	98	0.5%	3 / 654
Boston College	Religious-affiliated	67.0	40	10.0%	106 / 1,049
Boston University	Other private	68.2 *	19	2.4%	9 / 370
Bowdoin College	Liberal arts college	68.9	9	23.5%	220 / 933
Brigham Young University	Religious-affiliated	60.3 *	99	0.4%	3 / 724
Brown University	Ivy League	67.8	23	13.3%	475 / 3,545
Carnegie Mellon University	Other private	66.5	52	12.6%	92 / 712
Case Western Reserve University	Other private	67.1	38	11.8%	85 / 714
Claremont McKenna College	Liberal arts college	64.6	80	6.1%	33 / 542
Colgate University	Liberal arts college	66.9	44	13.9%	93 / 660
College of William and Mary	Public	68.4	16	6.3%	37 / 588
Columbia University	Ivy League	67.2	37	15.3%	232 / 1,520
Cornell University	Ivy League	67.2	34	14.0%	122 / 874
Dartmouth College	Ivy League	67.4	30	16.4%	241 / 1,429
Davidson College	Liberal arts college	68.4	15	18.2%	149 / 818
Duke	Other private	66.1	57	9.0%	105 / 1,172
Emory University	Other private	62.3 *	96	2.2%	21 / 935
Florida State University	Public	66.5 *	54	2.5%	24 / 958
Fordham University	Religious-affiliated	65.9	60	8.5%	207 / 2,430
George Washington University	Other private	64.4	84	2.8%	41 / 1,455
Georgia Institute of Technology	Public	62.4 *	94	1.3%	9 / 719
Grinnell College	Liberal arts college	68.7	10	9.9%	42 / 423
Hamilton College	Liberal arts college	66.9	45	16.4%	116 / 707
Harvard University	Ivy League	67.2	35	12.1%	114 / 925
Haverford College	Liberal arts college	67.7	28	15.0%	76 / 494
Howard University	Other private	67.4 *	31	2.1%	17 / 810
Indiana University-Bloomington	Public	64.4	82	2.1%	43 / 2,044
Johns Hopkins University	Other private	69.8	2	11.5%	99 / 849
Lehigh University	Other private	64.9	77	6.9%	46 / 668
Louisiana State University	Public	62.8 *	93	0.5%	4 / 888
Macalester College	Liberal arts college	67.7	26	17.1%	109 / 632
Marquette University	Religious-affiliated	64.5	81	5.5%	51 / 916
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Other private	66.6	51	3.8%	34 / 884
Middlebury College	Liberal arts college	67.7	25	21.2%	70 / 330
New York University	Other private	65.1	71	5.7%	43 / 734
North Carolina State University	Public	65.6 *	64	2.9%	22 / 771
Northeastern University	Other private	66.9	42	6.6%	57 / 861
Northwestern University	Other private	65.6 *	63	2.7%	22 / 816
Ohio State University-Columbus	Public	65.8 *	61	1.5%	19 / 1,302
Pennsylvania State University-University Park	Public	67.1	39	10.2%	110 / 1,080
Pepperdine University	Religious-affiliated	62.4 *	95	1.6%	5 / 320
Princeton University	Ivy League	68.3	17	12.8%	116 / 900
Purdue University	Public	65.4	69	2.1%	48 / 2,311
Rice University	Other private	66.6	50	6.9%	120 / 1,734
Rutgers University-New Brunswick	Public	64.8	78	2.2%	39 / 1,793
Santa Clara University	Religious-affiliated	66.9	43	11.9%	112 / 943
Southern Methodist University	Religious-affiliated	66.7 *	47	1.6%	11 / 707
Stanford University	Other private	68.4	14	15.8%	353 / 2,231
Stony Brook University	Public	64.4	83	4.1%	35 / 845
Swarthmore College	Liberal arts college	68.3	18	17.8%	182 / 1,020
Texas A&M University	Public	65.0 *	73	0.9%	10 / 1,174
Texas Tech University	Public	60.0 *	100	0.1%	1 / 958
The New School	Other private	69.4	5	16.9%	757 / 4,459
Tufts University	Other private	65.5	66	7.9%	82 / 1,040
Tulane University	Other private	64.3	86	5.7%	69 / 1,202
University of Alabama	Public	66.8	46	3.3%	30 / 897
University of Arizona	Public	65.6	62	6.0%	125 / 2,072
University of California-Davis	Public	64.0 *	88	2.4%	24 / 993
University of California-Irvine	Public	64.9	75	2.5%	30 / 1,213
University of California-Los Angeles	Public	67.7	27	6.2%	140 / 2,269
University of California-Riverside	Public	66.5	53	8.0%	118 / 1,476
University of California-San Diego	Public	66.6	48	4.8%	116 / 2,375
University of California-Santa Barbara	Public	67.2	36	6.0%	160 / 2,647
University of California-Santa Cruz	Public	69.1	8	11.2%	257 / 2,286
University of California, Berkeley	Public	67.3	32	6.7%	114 / 1,687
University of Chicago	Other private	67.3	33	14.0%	276 / 1,954
University of Colorado-Boulder	Public	65.5	68	5.5%	92 / 1,665
University of Connecticut	Public	65.5	67	6.1%	81 / 1,326
University of Florida	Public	63.6 *	90	2.4%	22 / 902
University of Georgia	Public	64.7	79	2.5%	36 / 1,445
University of Houston	Public	63.1	91	2.3%	33 / 1,414
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Public	64.9	76	3.9%	52 / 1,317
University of Illinois-Chicago	Public	68.2 *	20	2.5%	20 / 815
University of Iowa	Public	66.6	49	4.3%	48 / 1,126
University of Maryland-College Park	Public	66.3	56	8.9%	34 / 381
University of Miami	Other private	62.9	92	2.9%	39 / 1,303
University of Minnesota	Public	69.2	7	10.4%	147 / 1,413
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	Public	65.0	74	2.8%	61 / 2,199
University of Notre Dame	Religious-affiliated	65.0	72	7.1%	193 / 2,676
University of Pennsylvania	Ivy League	68.6	12	11.5%	251 / 2,170
University of Rochester	Other private	68.6 *	11	5.7%	19 / 331
University of Southern California	Other private	64.4 *	85	1.1%	16 / 1,499
University of Tennessee-Knoxville	Public	65.2	70	2.3%	33 / 1,411
University of Texas at Austin	Public	67.9	22	3.2%	64 / 1,973
University of Virginia	Public	66.0	58	3.4%	78 / 2,240
University of Washington	Public	65.9	59	7.1%	136 / 1,916
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Public	65.5	65	4.1%	40 / 948
Vanderbilt University	Other private	66.5	55	4.5%	63 / 1,395
Vassar College	Liberal arts college	69.5	3	27.8%	243 / 875
Wake Forest University	Other private	67.6 *	29	3.7%	27 / 732
Washington and Lee University	Liberal arts college	63.9	89	6.1%	40 / 661
Washington University in St. Louis	Other private	67.7	24	12.5%	253 / 1,994
Wesleyan University	Liberal arts college	70.9	1	24.6%	413 / 1,682
Williams College	Liberal arts college	69.3	6	26.9%	260 / 953
Yale University	Ivy League	68.5	13	12.2%	175 / 1,421
Yeshiva University	Religious-affiliated	61.7 *	97	0.7%	3 / 435

* fewer than 30 scored descriptions; the lean and rank are rough. Each school page shows the likely range.