CMC ranked 1st among colleges in student comfort expressing ideas.
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This morning, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) published their 2025 College Free Speech Rankings. After plummeting to 73rd in the rankings in 2024, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) regained their 2023 ranking of 6th in the country for free speech.
The rankings leverage FIRE’s college speech code ratings as well as College Pulse survey data from 57,609 students. For the past several years, FIRE has granted CMC a “Green light” speech code rating, meaning that the college’s policies “nominally protect free speech.”
The data include 103 respondents from CMC. Across colleges, CMC ranked 1st in student comfort expressing ideas, 100th in willingness to disrupt campus speaking events, 44th in openness to difficult conversations, 9th in perceived administrative support for free speech, 3rd in tolerance for controversial speakers, and 10th in willingness to self-censor.
According to the data, CMC has about 5 students who identify as liberal for every student who identifies as conservative, which is in line with historical data.
FIRE also notes that since 2019, CMC administrators have “sanctioned” 3 scholars for speech-related controversies. According to FIRE’s Scholars Under Fire Database, Professors Chris Nadon, Eva Revesz, and Robert Faggen all received administrative backlash for use of the n-word in their classrooms.
Other Claremont Colleges fared much worse in the rankings, with Scripps ranked 123rd, Harvey Mudd ranked 153rd, Pitzer ranked 180th, and Pomona ranked 242nd.
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