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Tulane University
Tulane University's course descriptions average 64.3 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Tulane University reads 3.3 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
5%Far left92–100
27%Left75–91
43%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
5%Right9–25
4%Far right0–8
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
This course explores the histories, myths, and memories of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, from Fidel Castro to the Miami expatriate communities.
History
This course will explore the history and public memory of slavery and the slave trade in New Orleans and southern Louisiana, as well as regions of North American. Some attention will also be paid to the Atlantic slave trade and areas of the…
Furthest-right subjects
Economics
An analysis and description of the economic history of slavery, with particular focus on the United States. Topics include the slave trade, profitability, the efficiency of slave labor, emancipation, slavery and economic growth, the…
Economics
An analysis and description of the economic history of slavery, with particular focus on the United States. Topics include the slave trade, profitability, the efficiency of slave labor, emancipation, slavery and economic growth, the…
History
A survey of the political, social, and economic development of Germany from the revolution of 1848 to the aftermath of the Second World War. Topics include unification, Bismarckian Germany, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich.
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 62.5 to 66.0; 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.
Tulane University by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 54.5% | 11 | view |
| Sociology | 16.3% | 86 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 12.9% | 31 | view |
| Anthropology | 7.9% | 140 | view |
| History | 6.6% | 258 | view |
| Art & Art History | 4.2% | 142 | view |
| Psychology | 2.8% | 106 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 2.5% | 119 | view |
| Political Science | 2.2% | 134 | view |
| Economics | 1.2% | 82 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 85 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 8 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tulane University | mean_bias_score | 64.3 | 62.5 – 66.0 | 1,202 | 69 |
| 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.