A recent study revealed that a majority of high schoolers consider a college’s political climate when considering their options for higher education. 

A study published by the consulting firm Echo Delta shows that roughly 75 percent of high school students take a college’s politics into consideration when they make their choice of college to enroll in, alongside other considerations.

According to the survey results, roughly 50 percent of high school students are politically moderate, 29.4 percent are liberal, and 20.3 percent are conservative. Echo Delta concludes that Gen Z teens are “significantly more centrist in their political affiliation than Gen Z adults.” 

The firm also found that “liberal students are significantly more likely than conservative and moderate students to be highly politically active.”

A “strong majority” of 78 percent of students who are “highly politically active” believe that a college’s “political climate somewhat or very much affects its learning environment.”