https://rankings.thefire.org/rank
Overall Rankings
The Overall Score combines seven unique dimensions to identify the top ranked college campuses for student free speech and open inquiry. The top-ranked colleges have the highest average score among all students surveyed and have the most open environments for free speech. Read more on how this ranking was calculated.
The Liberal to Conservative ratio (after the first school on the list, you'll need to click the down arrow at right of each listing to see added data) is particularly interesting.
This list is a load of shit and a political hit job. Hillsdale college and Pepperdine (where my daughter attended) are absolute leaders in free speech on campus.
Hillsdale is a beacon of education on libertarian ideas. Pepperdine is an evangelical religious-based university.
Hillsdale college is the only college my children will be attending.
I giggled when it showed University of Chicago as a bastion of free speech - just listen to one of Natalie Winter's examples of getting canceled by her entire sorority and her journalism professors while she was working full time for National Pulse and later co-host Steve Bannon's War Room.
"Ranking" is about equal to "Fact checking" in this case.
If you really look at it, the real indicator of whether they label it pro free speech or not is their conservative student to liberal student ratio. The more liberals, the higher the score. The more conservatives, the lower the score. It’s ass backwards.
As a BYU alum (exmormon BYU alum), as a conservative at least, there’s no place in the country where your feel more comfortable expressing a conservative viewpoint. And wouldn’t you know it? They’re ranked the 3rd WORST and they have 1.6 conservatives to every 1 liberal.
Where BYU sucks, is that they don’t condone the voicing of anti-LDS perspectives. That I can attest to. But on matters of politics? BYU is as close to ideal as a conservative can find. And as blatantly anti-conservative other campuses are, it’s a breath of fresh air.