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Harvard, Columbia, NYU Ranked as Worst Universities for Free Speech Following a Year of Campus Controversies

University of Virginia come in at the top of the rankings as the best place for student expression.

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Pro-Israeli demonstrators march at Columbia University . AP/Stefan Jeremiah
M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

For the second year in a row, Harvard University has been called the worst university in America for student free speech and open inquiry. It ranked dead-last at No. 251 in a survey of 58,807 student respondents by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and College Pulse. 

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M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

Ms. Koch graduated in 2023 from Harvard College, where she was the editor-in-chief of the student weekly, the Harvard Independent. She reports on issues of higher education and foreign policy at The New York Sun.

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