The 2024 College Free Speech Rankings are out!

It’s that time of year, friends of free speech! For the fourth annual College Free Speech Rankings, FIRE and College Pulse surveyed 55,102 college undergraduates at 248 schools about their perceptions and experiences regarding free speech on their campuses—and the results might shock you.

Go to https://rankings.thefire.org to see if your school measures up.
And to join the fight to defend free speech on campus, visit us at https://TheFIRE.org.

Key findings from the report:

*Harvard is by far the worst school in the country for free speech. It is the only school with an “Abysmal” rating.

*Deplatforming attempts that occurred at schools ranked in the bottom five had an alarming 81% success rate.

*Up to 72% of students opposed allowing a conservative speaker on campus, depending on the topic, while up to 43% of students opposed allowing a liberal speaker on campus.

*73% of students said that using violence to stop a campus speech is never acceptable, down from 80% last year. At Oberlin College, only 53% of students said that violence is never acceptable.

*At a time of national dialogue about abortion policy, 49% of students have difficulty discussing abortion on campus. The most difficult topics to discuss on campus are abortion, gun control, racial inequality, and transgender rights.

*Of the 248 schools ranked, 73 have “below average,” “poor,” “very poor,” or “abysmal” speech climates. Just 47 have at least “slightly above average” speech climates. Last year, when 203 schools were ranked, these totals were 64 and 39, respectively.