Insights Blog Posts

7 Charts to Explain College Students’ Relationships With Their Mothers

May 12th, 2019

Today is Mother’s Day in the United States, and to celebrate mother’s everywhere, we uncovered the top stats on student opinion of their mothers. These stats are based on last year’s Mother’s Day poll conducted among 14,490 students attending four-year colleges or universities across the United States. To find the correlations, we used College Pulse Insights — […]

Should the NYT Have Published Trump’s Tax Return Data?

May 9th, 2019

59 percent of college students said it was “Appropriate” for the NYT to publish the data Only 19 percent of students said it was “Inappropriate” Male college students were 2X as likely as female students to say it was inappropriate for the NYT to release data on Trump’s taxes The New York Times recently released […]

Half Of College Students Have Experienced Suicidal Thoughts

May 8th, 2019

51% of college students have experienced suicidal thoughts LGTBQIA+ students (71 percent) are are nearly 1.6X as likely as straight students (45 percent) to have experienced suicidal thoughts For students who have experienced suicidal thoughts, classes are the primary source of stress (47 percent) Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Americans between […]

30% of US College Students Say Meghan And Harry’s Baby Should NOT Have US Citizenship

May 7th, 2019

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcomed a baby boy into the world on Monday, and a royal announcement shared that the family was “delighted with the news.” The Duchess of Sussex, an American citizen, married into the British royal family last year. While the family hasn’t announced any decisions about the baby’s citizenship — or […]

Do College Students Think Your Job Contributes To Society?

May 6th, 2019

69% of college students say having an occupation that contributes to society is “extremely” or “very” important to them 40% say truck drivers contribute “a lot” to the well being of society vs. 15% who say the same of politicians. 61% of white students vs. 45% of black or African-American students say members of law […]

Play Like a Girl? Female College Athletes Say They Are Less Feminine

March 27th, 2019

After the U.S. Women’s national soccer team won the 2015 World Cup then President Obama congratulated the team for helping redefine what it meant to play like a girl. “This team taught all of America’s children that playing like a girl means you’re a badass,” said Obama at an event honoring the team. But despite viral […]

Pulse Plays “Never Have I Ever”

November 28th, 2018

Students Divided on Affirmative Action

November 2nd, 2018

Student Opinions Shift on Kavanaugh

September 28th, 2018

Ivy League Rivalries

July 19th, 2018

Some students are fortunate enough to go to a college with a clear-cut rival. Army-Navy. Harvard-Yale. Michigan-Ohio State. But for others, it’s hard to know exactly who exactly they’re competing against. To clear this up, Pulse asked 2,850 Ivy League undergrads which other Ivy they consider to be their school’s biggest rival in our Ivy […]