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2027 Rankings School Spotlight Reports
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For the 2027 College Free Speech Rankings, FIRE published additional spotlight reports with in-depth data and analysis for 24 colleges and universities.
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2027 Rankings Spotlight - Bucknell University
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Bucknell University ranks 201 out of 261 schools in the 2027 College Free Speech Rankings and earned a speech climate grade of F.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Claremont Colleges
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Students at all five schools identified the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the most difficult topic to discuss.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Claremont McKenna College
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For the sixth year in a row, Claremont McKenna is the strongest Claremont school for free speech.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Colgate University
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Colgate University ranks 49 out of 2611 schools in the 2027 College Free Speech Rankings and earned a speech climate grade of D+.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Columbia University
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Columbia ranks 246 out of 262 schools and earned a speech climate grade of F, last among its Ivy League peers.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Cornell University
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Cornell students were more likely than students nationally to say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is difficult to discuss openly and honestly on campus.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Dartmouth College
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Dartmouth students showed stronger support for allowing controversial speakers and less appetite for disrupting speakers than their peers nationally.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Furman University
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Students were most likely to say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, abortion, and Charlie Kirk were difficult topics to discuss openly and honestly on campus.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Georgetown University
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Georgetown students were more likely than students nationally to say shouting down a speaker was at least "rarely" acceptable.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Harvard University
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Harvard students were less likely than students nationally to self-censor with other students, professors, and administrators.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Indiana University
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"Self-Censorship," which measures how often students hold back their views in campus settings, improved from last year but remained a weakness.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MIT students were less likely than students nationally to be at least “somewhat comfortable” expressing an unpopular political opinion on a social media account.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - New England Small College Athletic Conference
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The top half of the conference improved considerably from last year. Williams College, Tufts University, and Hamilton College moved up the most, while Amherst College and Trinity College fell in the overall rankings.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - New York University
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NYU has ranked below 200 in each of the past four years and in the bottom 10 in each of the past three.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Northwestern University
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This year is Northwestern’s highest rank to date, up sharply from 120 last year and from the 2024 and 2025 rankings, when Northwestern ranked near the bottom nationally.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Princeton University
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Princeton University ranks 176 out of 2611 schools in the 2027 College Free Speech Rankings earned a speech climate grade of F.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Stanford University
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Stanford improved in the overall rankings, rising from 75 in the 2026 College Free Speech Rankings to 55 this year.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - University of Denver
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University of Denver tudents were most comfortable disagreeing with a professor in a written assignment and least comfortable expressing an
unpopular political opinion on social media.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Students at UNC - Chapel Hill were less accepting of disruptive conduct than last year, but still more accepting than students nationally.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - University of Pennsylvania
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Penn performed best relative to other schools on "Political Tolerance," which measures willingness to allow controversial liberal and conservative speakers.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - University of Virginia
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UVA students were more likely than students nationally to say shouting down a speaker or blocking students from attending a speech is at least “rarely” acceptable.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Villanova University
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Villanova students were wary of controversial speakers and more accepting of disruptive tactics than students nationally.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Williams College
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Williams ranks in the bottom 50 for “Political Tolerance,” showing students are less willing to host controversial speakers.
2027 Rankings Spotlight - Yale University
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Yale students were especially likely to identify the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as difficult to discuss.