# Gallup: Americans’ Confidence In Higher Education Falls To 38% As AI Doubts Grow

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Podcast: [The College Investor Audio Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113)
Published: 2026-07-27T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thecollegeinvestor.com/84482/gallup-americans-confidence-in-higher-education-falls-to-38-as-ai-doubts-grow/
Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cd6765c3-4dde-4682-9fb6-e6c886210c4c.mp3
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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.

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