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Does 4 years of college make students more liberal?

  • Written by Matthew J. Mayhew, The William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
Does 4 years of college make students more liberal?Students' positive attitudes toward conservative ideas are the same before and after four years of college. FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

Over four years of college, students develop positive attitudes for political liberals but not conservatives.

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