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A Yale News analysis of Federal Election Commission disclosures showed that 97.6 percent Yale faculty member donations went to Democrats.
Of the more than 7,000 donations reviewed for 2025, Yale News identified a total of 1,099 donations from Yale employees who listed "professor" as their occupation.
Nearly 98% of the donations, $123,533, went to Democrats; $3,038 went to Independent candidates and groups; and not a single dime went to Republicans.
That news probably shouldn't come as a surprise after the Buckley Report came out in December 2025, revealing that across Yale’s 43 undergraduate departments and two graduate schools, 82.3% of faculty were Democrats, 15.4% were Unaffiliated / Third Party and just 2.3% of faculty were Republicans.
The study further found that 27 departments had no Republicans at all and three departments had exclusively Democrats.
"It's more than 36 to 1 Democrats to Republicans, and 5 to 1 Democrats to independents at Yale," wrote to the Buckley Institute.
Buckley Institute's Founder and Executive Director, Lauren Noble, said the research highlighted the "significant political and ideological imbalance among Yale’s faculty.”
“Yale has committed repeatedly over decades to fostering an environment conducive to open debate and discussion but has all but excluded diversity of opinion through its hiring process," said Noble. "With such a dramatic ideological chasm between the Yale campus and the country, it is not hard to see why trust for higher education is so low.”
“It’s true, there is very very, very little intellectual diversity at Yale and at most institutions of higher learning when it comes to politics,” wrote Carlos Eire, a Yale history and religious studies professor. “Academics in the US, Canada and Europe have been leaning left for the past three or four generations. And this is something that shows no signs of being corrected or correcting itself anytime soon.”
Manu Anpalagan ’26, the president of the Yale College Republicans, was also disappointed by the lack of academic diversity.
“It’s a known fact, year after year, that Yale’s faculty is not politically diverse,” he told Yale News. “A politically diverse faculty represents an intellectually diverse faculty. And an intellectually diverse faculty is essential for an open exchange of ideas and the pursuit of knowledge, both of which are core missions of the university.”
Yale issued a statement regarding faculty political affiliations after the Buckley Report was released, indicating that it does not track or comment on the political affiliations of individual faculty members.
"The university is, however, deeply committed to fostering open debate, preserving freedom of expression, and creating an environment in which a wide range of ideas can be expressed and heard civilly," said the statement, citing the Yale Center for Civic Thought, the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School, and the work of the Committee on Institutional Voice as examples of that commitment.
Despite the Buckley Report findings, Yale insists it has a "longstanding dedication to academic freedom, free expression, and constructive dialogue across differences."
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