ANALYSIS: Research identified 56 humanities departments in which not one Republican professor could be found
It’s pretty widely accepted among most Americans that college professors as a whole are a bunch of leftists, no one really debates that anymore.
But from time to time it’s important to quantify just how lopsided the bias is in our nation’s colleges and universities.
The College Fix did just that this school year, digging into rosters of both humanities and STEM departments to see what’s under the hood.
Perhaps it will shock you, or maybe it won’t, but we found a whopping 59 entire academic departments that have no identifiable Republican professor whatsoever.
But wait — there’s more. We didn’t look at campuses such as UC Berkeley or NYU; we targeted places where GOP yard signs outnumber kale smoothies. Our findings hail from 11 universities in various red states: Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Oklahoma and Georgia.
The investigation, conducted over the 2024-25 school year, found this bias occurred in both humanities departments and STEM ones, although the lopsided nature is most prevalent in the former.
The research identified 56 humanities departments in which not one Republican professor could be found, and three STEM departments that also appeared to lack a single GOP scholar. The silver lining is that, thankfully, most STEM departments still at least have a few Republican professors among their ranks.
By the numbers, a total of 5,327 professors were looked up in public voter registration databases, and only 307 Republican professors were identified compared to 2,181 Democrat professors. And there is it: 2,181 reasons why your professor is probably a Biden-Harris voter.
(Click here to review a breakdown of each department at each school reviewed.)
As for the rest of the professors we looked up, there was a small percentage who were either libertarian or unaffiliated, but most of them we could not find in the voter rolls; maybe they don’t vote, or perhaps we could not identify them beyond a reasonable doubt. We played it safe.
In looking up each professor, The Fix cross-referenced against public information, such as curriculum vitae and research papers, to match names with registrations. Other information, including estimated birth year, was matched against birthday data included in the election statistics.
Now, some might say, “Who cares?” But when 56 humanities departments don’t have a single GOP voice, you’ve got to wonder: Are students getting the full spectrum of ideas? Others might argue Republicans just aren’t into academia. Maybe—but when the gap’s this wide, it’s hard to believe it’s all by choice.
The findings show that Democratic scholars dominate college classrooms, even in states that lean right. The next time someone argues concerns over bias in colleges and universities is overblown, send them our way. We’ve got the receipts.
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