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2025 Spotlight - Columbia University

2025 Spotlight - Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt was penalized in this year’s rankings for removing a proposed BDS amendment from the Student Government’s funding referendum before it could be voted on.

2025 Spotlight - University of Texas at Austin

UT Austin’s overall score was penalized for the outcomes of seven different speech controversies that have occurred since 2020.

2025 Spotlight - University of Southern California

USC was involved in six speech controversies over the last five years, responding in a speech- protective manner in none of them.

2025 Spotlight - University of South Carolina

University of South Carolina's ranking increased dramatically because of its policy improvements, becoming a “green light” institution this year.

2025 Spotlight - Tulane University

There are substantial differences in self-censorship rates among liberal and conservative students at Tulane University.

2025 Spotlight - Portland State University

Portland State was penalized in this year’s rankings for a 2021 incident in which administrators filed a copyright strike against Professor Bruce Gilley.

2025 Spotlight - MIT

Compared with its peer institutions, MIT ranks near the middle — better than Stanford, Penn, and Harvard but behind Carnegie Mellon and California Institute of Technology.

2025 Spotlight - Indiana University

Less than half of Indiana University students say they are “very” or “somewhat” comfortable expressing their views on controversial political topics.

2025 Spotlight - Emory University

Emory University ranks 230 when it comes to comfort expressing ideas, with students feel less comfortable when publicly disagreeing with a professor about a controversial political topic.

2025 Spotlight - Duke University

Duke University has a slightly above average speech climate and ranks 27 overall in the 2025 College Free Speech Rankings.

2025 College Free Speech Rankings

The largest report of its kind, the 2025 College Free Speech Rankings draw from more than 58,000 student survey responses at 257 colleges and universities and are designed to help parents and prospective students choose the right school.

2024 Student Encampment Protests

How did the student encampment protests impact the state of free expression on America’s college campuses?

2025 Spotlight - University of Virginia

University of Virginia is at the top of the 257 schools surveyed for the College Free Speech Rankings.

2025 Spotlight - Yale University

If Yale University revised its speech policies to earn a “green light” rating from ��֭����, then it would have ranked 29 overall in the College Free Speech Rankings.