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Industry · Educational Services

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

NAICS 6113 · 1,574,184 matched workers · high confidence

Strong Democratic lean
69.3% Democratic, 30.7% Republican

Two-party shares across 1,574,184 workers in the Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools industry.

69.3%
30.7%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
68.5% D · 31.5% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Hierarchy
Educational Services › Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
NAICS2 61 · NAICS4 6113
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Where Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools falls

More Democratic than 83% of industries in Educational Services.

← DemocraticRepublican →Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools — 69% DemocraticElementary and Secondary Schools — 65% DemocraticEducational Support Services — 67% DemocraticProfessional and Management Development Training — 60% DemocraticJunior Colleges — 63% DemocraticExam Preparation and Tutoring — 68% DemocraticAll Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction — 69% DemocraticBusiness and Secretarial Schools — 60% DemocraticFlight Training — 39% DemocraticOther Technical and Trade Schools — 57% DemocraticSports and Recreation Instruction — 52% DemocraticLanguage Schools — 68% DemocraticComputer Training — 65% DemocraticFine Arts Schools — 74% DemocraticCosmetology and Barber Schools — 66% DemocraticAutomobile Driving Schools — 57% DemocraticApprenticeship Training — 34% DemocraticColleges, Universities, and Professional Schools — 69% Democratic0%25%50%75%100%
Each dot is one of the 17 other industries in Educational Services; size scales by workforce. Hover to see names — click to jump.

How this is measured

VRscores estimate the partisan composition of an industry by linking voter registration records to employment profiles, then aggregating workers up the NAICS hierarchy. The two-party shares above exclude workers with no major-party affiliation.

Read the full methodology or the published Organization Science paper.

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Citation

Kagan, Max; Frake, Justin; Hurst, Reuben (2026). “VRscores: A New Measure and Data Set of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations.” Organization Science, 37(2), 444–465.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2025.20402