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In 2024, Harvard was ranked dead last with a 0.00 score in college free speech rankings.
At the other end of the rankings, Harvard University came in dead last with the lowest score possible, 0.00, more than four standard deviations below the mean. The full list of the bottom five schools and their scores is as follows:
Fordham earned a “Poor” speech climate rating; Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, and University of South Carolina each earned a “Very Poor” rating; and Harvard earned an “Abysmal” rating.
- Harvard University (0.00)
- University of Pennsylvania (11.13)
- University of South Carolina (12.24)
- Georgetown University (17.45)
- Fordham University (21.72)
Further, Harvard’s overall score of 0.00 is generous — its actual score is -10.69, more than six standard deviations below the average and more than two standard deviations below the second-to-last school in the rankings and its Ivy League counterpart, the University of Pennsylvania. Last year’s lowest ranked school, Columbia University, also a member of the Ivy League, this year earned a score of 34.60, a ranking of 214, and a “Below Average” speech climate rating.
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2024 College Free Speech Rankings
For the fourth year in a row, FIRE and College Pulse surveyed college students about their perceptions and experiences regarding free speech on their campuses.www.thefire.org
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) – Bias and Credibility

In other words, Harvard was the least likely campus to allow far-right extremist racism to be expressed freely.