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Northeastern University

Northeastern University's course descriptions average 66.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Northeastern University reads 0.6 points further right.

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Northeastern University: 66.9 (likely range 65.2 to 68.7) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

11%Left75–91

86%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

57 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

AFCS 3210 · Black Abolition Studies: Carcerality, Liberation, and Resistance88

Ethnic & African American Studies

Analyzes how Black people have resisted carcerality in social and political organizing from the 16th century to the present. Explores historical understandings of abolition as the end of slavery and the current abolition project of ending…

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SOCL 7100 · Queer Theory: Sexualities, Genders, Politics88

Sociology

Introduces the core texts and key debates that have shaped queer theory and examines the intersections between queer theory and feminism and critical race theory. Seeks to provide an understanding of expansive and radical contemporary queer…

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ECON 3711 · Economics of Race78

Economics

Addresses economic issues related to race, including the persistence of racial discrimination. Studies the social construction of race and the use of this construction to legitimize exploitation. Covers the economic modeling of…

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Furthest right

None. Northeastern University has 57 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 65.2 to 68.7; 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.

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

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Ethnic & African American Studies	28.9%	45	view
Sociology	28.8%	59	view
Women's & Gender Studies	26.7%	15	view
Anthropology	13.3%	30	view
Religious Studies	7.7%	78	view
History	7.1%	85	view
Economics	2.7%	110	view
English & Comparative Literature	1.7%	119	view
Art & Art History	1.4%	143	view
Philosophy	0%	7	view
Political Science	0%	72	view
Psychology	0%	98	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
Northeastern University	mean_bias_score	66.9	65.2 – 68.7	861	57
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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