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Johns Hopkins University's course descriptions average 69.8 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Johns Hopkins University reads 2.3 points further left.

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Johns Hopkins University: 69.8 (likely range 67.8 to 71.8) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

5%Far left92–100

26%Left75–91

63%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

99 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

AS.190.418 · The End of Whiteness100

Political Science

This is a writing intensive, advanced undergraduate political theory seminar on racial formation. Specifically, the course explores the end of whiteness in multiple senses of the phrase. First, to what extent do the ends served by whiteness…

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AS.191.343 · Global Political Ecology: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Climate Change95

Political Science

The ecological crisis currently underway calls into question political theories that emphasize concern with the ‘human’ above all else. Yet this is the hallmark of humanist political thought, encompassing notions of freedom, equality,…

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AS.060.642 · Reading Capital Now94

English & Comparative Literature

Since the 2008 financial crash, there’s been rising popular consciousness of capitalism’s crisis-bound character and, therefore, its vulnerability. But finance isn’t the only thing that capitalism has brought to a boiling point: for…

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AS.190.475 · America in Comparative and International Perspective42

Political Science

Over the last quarter millennium, the United States of America has been the most successful state in world politics. It has had the world’s largest economy since 1870, and was on the winning side of the three great world struggles 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 67.8 to 71.8; 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.

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

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	50%	16	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	29.2%	24	view
Political Science	23.0%	174	view
English & Comparative Literature	16.8%	161	view
History	6.8%	146	view
Philosophy	2.6%	116	view
Economics	2.0%	99	view
Psychology	1.3%	79	view
Anthropology	0%	1	view
Art & Art History	0%	33	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
Johns Hopkins University	mean_bias_score	69.8	67.8 – 71.8	849	99
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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