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Gallup: Americans’ Confidence In Higher Education Falls To 38% As AI Doubts Grow
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- Jul 27, 2026
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Summary
Americans' confidence in higher education slipped to 38% this year, down from 42% in 2025, according to the new Lumina Foundation-Gallup Confidence in Higher Education survey . The drop erases most of the modest recovery colleges saw last year. The survey, conducted in June 2026, found that 38% of U.S. adults have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education, 37% have "some," and 25% have "very little" or none. When Gallup first asked the question in 2015, 57% of Americans expressed strong confidence.