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According to a recent study that the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology carried out, 38% of students enrolled at liberal arts colleges in the United States identify as LGBTQ. Ivy League schools stood at 27%.
The three schools with the highest percentage of LGBTQ students were Oberlin, Wellesley, and Smith College, at 51%, 61%, and 70%, respectively.
CSPI made the case that liberal arts colleges’ sizable proportion of LGBTQ students was “linked to the strongly liberal ideology at these colleges,” calling attention to how 37% of “very liberal” students identified as LGBTQ. By contrast, only 5% of “very conservative” students identify as LGBTQ.
