Elite University Scholarship Recipients Interested in Overwhelmingly Liberal Issues, Report Finds

Reports note that Rhodes Scholarship and Truman Scholarship recipients overwhelmingly pursue liberal academic plans.

Honorands and senior university members take part in the annual Encaenia ceremony at Oxford University in Oxford, west of London, on Sept. 22, 2021. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

The vast majority of American students selected to the most prestigious post-graduate scholarship programs in the world pursue left-leaning, progressive courses of study, a recent report found.

In the past five years, only one of 157 American Rhodes Scholars expressed an interest in conservative issues. And for the Truman Scholarship, just six of 182 U.S. recipients did so, according to a report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) published on May 6.