The myth of left-wing indoctrination in academia — having a University degree makes one more likely to be right-wing

[Bbb23sucks]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... Dihub#sec6

The results indicate that achieving a degree renders an individual significantly more economically right-wing, although the estimators differ in the exact magnitude of the effect. Those using the complete case sample estimate a similarly-sized effect to that on racial prejudice, of just over 0.15 SD – yet the REWB model applied to the multiply imputed data suggests a much larger effect, of around 0.35 SD. This larger effect may be attributable to differential attrition affecting those in the control condition, where cohort members from more disadvantaged backgrounds (and who therefore would be less likely to achieve a degree and more likely to hold economically left-wing views) were less likely to continue with the study. This result provides evidence in support of hypothesis 3, and is in line with previous literature, where authors have attributed this change both to peer socialisation and to economic allocation effects.

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[ericbarbour]

Possible, although fair warning: the reseachers used raw data from a 50-year-old British sociological study for their data set.

this article estimates the change in political values that occurs within individuals who graduate from university by applying longitudinal modelling techniques to data from the 1970 British Cohort Study

The paper also mentions studies that tend to disagree with this result, or sometimes gives a neutral result, at least in regard to racial prejudice. A more recent study, on Americans, would help. White Americans have been prone to discrimination for 200+ years. Whether this is affected by higher education, who knows. It is a contentious political subject so I suspect researchers tend to avoid doing new studies.

There's even a WP article. Make of this what you can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_British_Cohort_Study

[oranges33]

I went to a public college in the South and the only active political groups were an Ayn Rand fanclub and a white pride group.

This was 2009, I was used to hearing the stereotype of college being some sort of leftist or liberal haven, and I sort of bought that, that is until going to college. Even though most going to this college were northerners, there just was no such thing as a "left wing political presence" at that college.

That said, there are a variety of colleges out there. Self-identified "leftism", as far as the European definition is pretty rare in IRL American institutions, and is mostly limited to defunct political parties which now act as lobbying groups for Dem occupied governments.

[Dr Mario]

As someone with BA-Degree in humanites and social science can say I'm just anti stupidity and wikipedia and fandom etc are full of it.