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Most Trump Loving College Campuses

To Trump or not to Trump? The presumptive Republican presidential candidate has been, without a doubt, one of the most polarizing figures in recent American political history and possibly of all time.

His presence has been so divisive that we wanted to get a pulse for his popularity among college students around the country.

In our study, we analyzed Facebook data on students at hundreds of the top U.S. colleges to see which campuses seem to have the highest affinity for Mr. Trump and which ones have the least love for his campaign.

What we found was — as you may expect — a bit mixed. Some of the campuses that are historically seen as conservative strongholds were among those that have him embraced him most fully. But our list of the most Trump-loving campuses is also peppered with small, liberal arts colleges — some even on the west coast, which is generally seen as a liberal paradise.

All told, it seems a fitting dichotomy that represents the feelings many Americans of all ages seem to have.

You either love Trump or you hate him.

30 Most Trump-Loving Campuses

 

College Name Percent Trump City State
Centre College 25.45% Danville KY
Millsaps College 21.28% Jackson MS
Otis College of Art & Design 21.28% Los Angeles CA
Scripps College 21.28% Claremont CA
The College of Idaho 21.28% Caldwell ID
Austin College 17.86% Sherman TX
Kalamazoo College 17.86% Kalamazoo MI
Presbyterian College 17.86% Clinton SC
Texas Wesleyan University 17.27% Fort Worth TX
Lawrence University 15.83% Appleton WI
Beloit College 15.38% Beloit WI
Pacific Union College 15.38% Angwin CA
Dallas Baptist University 14.00% Dallas TX
Oral Roberts University 14.00% Tulsa OK
Claremont McKenna College 13.51% Claremont CA
College of the Ozarks 13.51% Point Lookout MO
Earlham College 13.51% Richmond IN
Wofford College 13.51% Spartanburg SC
Agnes Scott College 11.90% Decatur GA
Polytechnic Institute of New York University 11.90% Brooklyn NY
Transylvania University 11.90% Lexington KY
Wesleyan College 11.90% Macon GA
United States Military Academy at West Point 11.21% West Point NY
Eckerd College 10.75% St. Petersburg FL
Hampshire College 10.75% Amherst MA
Haverford College 10.75% Haverford PA
Taylor University 10.75% Upland IN
University of Northwestern – St. Paul 10.75% Saint Paul MN
Washington & Lee University 10.75% Lexington VA
University of Tennessee 10.68% Knoxville TN

30 Least Trump-Loving Campuses

 

College Name Percent Trump City State
California State University – Fullerton 0.56% Fullerton CA
San Francisco State University 0.71% San Francisco CA
University of California – Berkeley 0.79% Berkeley CA
University of Utah 0.83% Salt Lake City UT
Appalachian State University 0.91% Boone NC
Fordham University 1.27% Bronx NY
University of California – Davis 1.27% Davis CA
Miami University 1.36% Oxford OH
University of Massachusetts – Amherst 1.36% Amherst MA
University of Pennsylvania 1.36% Philadelphia PA
University of Colorado – Boulder 1.56% Boulder CO
Temple University 1.58% Philadelphia PA
University of Connecticut 1.58% Storrs CT
Oregon State University 1.65% Corvallis OR
California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo 1.73% San Luis Obispo CA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1.75% Chapel Hill NC
College of William & Mary 1.82% Williamsburg VA
Howard University 1.82% Washington DC
California State University – Long Beach 1.85% Long Beach CA
University of California – San Diego 1.85% La Jolla CA
Brigham Young University 1.87% Provo UT
University of Oregon 1.87% Eugene OR
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1.88% Champaign IL
Princeton University 1.89% Princeton NJ
Wake Forest University 1.90% Winston Salem NC
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor 1.93% Ann Arbor MI
Tufts University 2.00% Medford MA
University of California – Irvine 2.00% Irvine CA
University of San Francisco 2.04% San Francisco CA
University of Washington 2.07% Seattle WA

Notes on our methodology

We used data from Facebook’s advertiser targeting platform to analyze both the number of students on Facebook who are currently enrolled at each college, as well as those who have indicated interest in Trump on the social media network.

In our final tally, we used some discretion in removing schools with limited available data and also removed some small and specialized universities to create a list of mostly recognizable colleges on both ends of the spectrum.


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