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Rutgers University-New Brunswick's course descriptions average 64.8 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Rutgers University-New Brunswick reads 2.7 points further right.

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

Rutgers University-New Brunswick: 64.8 (likely range 62.9 to 66.8) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

8%Left75–91

85%Center-left59–74

8%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

39 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

01:988:447 · Gender-Based Violence as Human Rights Violations: Histories and Trajectories88

Women's & Gender Studies

Grasp key concepts such as structural and interpersonal violence, sexism, heterosexism, heteropatriarchy, privilege and oppression, intersectionality, and decoloniality, through multi-disciplinary perspectives. Explore the histories,…

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01:512:342 · Policing in Black Communities: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration83

History

This course examines the history of policing in Black communities from its origins in colonial slavery to the present. It reveals how Black people's desire for freedom from slavery led fearful local, state, and federal authorities to…

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01:988:409 · Gender, Environmental Justice, and Health75

Women's & Gender Studies

Fully online. Examines women's health in relationship to contradictions between capitalist growth and resource exhaustion. Health consequences of environmental crises linked to new markets and technologies.

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Furthest right

None. Rutgers University-New Brunswick has 39 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 62.9 to 66.8; 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.

Rutgers University-New Brunswick by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	18.8%	85	view
Sociology	7.1%	70	view
History	2.4%	338	view
Political Science	1.6%	126	view
English & Comparative Literature	0.9%	756	view
Religious Studies	0.8%	120	view
Anthropology	0%	15	view
Art & Art History	0%	159	view
Philosophy	0%	124	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
Rutgers University-New Brunswick	mean_bias_score	64.8	62.9 – 66.8	1,793	39
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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