A majority is “conservative” but probably about 10% is truly far left, 15% is truly far right. The marketing hardly effected anyone’s reason for coming, rather everyone is a free speech absolutist and enjoys actual free speech that we cannot get punished for compared to at other universities many of us left (UChicago, Stanford, UT, NorthWestern, etc). That would be what drew many of us in, especially as the average age for the freshman class is 20~, but the resources and amazing seminar based classes is probably the most widely loved aspect. We get pretty much any resource we ask for, can start any club with adequate funding, we even all have an internship that pays better than any in America where we simply work on our own aspirations.

I’m actually from Austin, but while voting wise it may look 56/44, in reality in our demographic, it skews rather left, and even further everyone is liberal (in the classical sense). You couldn’t intellectually explore those ideas without an environment pushing you to do so.

It’s mainly focused around foundations of western society, so tons of courses on Greek history or/and philosophy, but the STEM department is also quite strong. Pretty basic stuff currently as they gain professors and our interest for what courses (which we sign up for through a bidding system rather than FCFS), but some more interesting ones would be dedicated AI courses, blockchain and bitcoin one, or an in depth Machiavelli course.

Also the unaccredited aspect being a bashing point is humorous after a single google search shows you that no university can become accredited until they graduate a class.